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The NAGRA Android Fast Track program is designed to give Pay TV operators more choice when it comes to Android TV based deployments and accelerate time-to-market, while safeguarding content against piracy. A new pre-integration combines the NAGRA Connect security client and a new hybrid set-top box from SDMC that is powered by the Amlogic S905X3 series system-on-chip.

The forecasting company Digital TV Research is predicting that five headline-grabbing SVOD services – Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Apple TV+ and HBO Max – will together double their subscription base in the next six years. HBO Max will attract 30m paying subs by 2025, with as many as 80% of them coming from the U.S.

The final deadline for entering the Videonet Connected TV Awards 2020 is this Friday, November 22, at midnight California time. These awards showcase stand-out...

The German Pay TV provider HD+ has made its service available on Samsung and Panasonic televisions as an embedded app that comes complete with programme guide, catch-up and restart functions. There is no need for a set-top box, dongle or any other hardware attachment. This is a virtual STB implementation, built around TVkey Cloud technology and using HbbTV OpApp.

Server-based watermarking provides optimal device reach and security robustness, but client watermarking is optimised for live content protection and enables faster watermark detection, the company says. This is because the entire identity of the source is embedded in each frame. No latency is introduced. Meanwhile, Irdeto Is helping to harden the system and router OS on home gateways and providing greater visibility and intelligence across a home network in order to boost IoT security.

Videonet is hosting a live webcast on December 4 to investigate the opportunity for Pay TV operators to offer targeted advertising within their UI as a managed set-top box application that has no impact on the operations department. Listeners will learn how you implement this solution and, among other things, hear about the subscriber data used to support audience segmentation and the advertising-as-a-service model for operators who do not have their own sales house.

Adgile Media, real time TV analytics and effectiveness business, announced the formation of an advisory board, boasting some of the industry's TV and data...

Discovery, Inc. has chosen Synamedia’s virtualized Digital Content Manager (DCM) to help it transition to an IP-based, virtualized video processing environment for the distribution...

The TV Charter, backed by most of the 155 sales houses represented by egta, and also supported by The Global TV Group that includes Thinkbox, ThinkTV, Screenforce and VAB, confirms a commitment by the TV industry to collaborate on the evolution of audience measurement and the creation of standards and comparability on a global scale. It comes at a time when more companies are developing proprietary solutions to try to solve parts of the advanced measurement equation.

Norigin Media, which offers streaming TV technology solutions to content owners and platform operators, uses open source software as a way to differentiate its market offering and has an applications development framework that is a unique combination of ‘built-in-house’ components and open-source frameworks, including React and Redux. The company builds applications once and deploys them natively, and quickly, on every device using a productised SDK. Norwegian broadcaster TV2 is among the recent customer wins.