Posted March 11, 2010 ¬ 1:14 pmh.Steve Oetegenn
We are in full swing with our tradeshow schedule for 2010! We had our team covering bases for CSTB in Moscow, Andina Link in Colombia and CABSAT in Dubai.
Now, we’ve all complained about tradeshows – they are costly, require a large amount of company resources to make them successful and can be murder if you [...]
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Content security, Network migration, Revenue security, Satellite, Steve Oetegenn, pay TVConditional Access, Content Security, DVB, IPTV, pay TV, Revenue security
Posted December 10, 2009 ¬ 11:08 amh.Tom Munro
Mark Holmes of ViaSatellite recently tackled the latest issues around content piracy and theft of service in Asia. While analog cable systems are the biggest target for piracy, satellite pay-TV operators are certainly feeling the impact of service theft. Quoting the deputy CEO of CASBAA, “The nature of the satellite business is that it doesn’t [...]
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Cable, Content security, Satellite, Theft of service, Tom Munro, Watermarking, pay TVAsia pay TV, content protection, fingerprinting, OTT, Satellite, Theft of service, Video Watermarking
Posted October 30, 2009 ¬ 9:45 amh.Steve Christian
My compliments to Andrew Glasspool and his colleagues at Farncombe Technologies for two important, closely argued white papers published this year that are barometers of the changing times we live in.
Their most recent paper, published this week, on the Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) mandate that many pay-TV deployments must accommodate illustrates very succinctly how technical decisions that once were wholly supportable [...]
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Posted October 21, 2009 ¬ 6:11 amh.Steve Oetegenn
Traditional pay-TV operators have always been highly focused on revenue security by way of theft of service prevention – for two main reasons. Subscriber fees are obviously a significant revenue source and piracy through theft of service is very prevalent, particularly in certain markets (See CASBAA for country-specific piracy rates). Smart cards were really the [...]
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Cable, Content security, DRM, Revenue security, Satellite, Standards, Steve Oetegenn, Theft of service, pay TVCable, content protection, DRM, IPTV, Revenue security, Satellite, Theft of service
Posted October 16, 2009 ¬ 11:10 amh.Steve Christian
Seems that I wasn’t persuasive enough in my discussions at IBC 2009 with Ben Schwarz at VideoNet where we talked about extending pay-TV models into Internet delivery. Overall, I’m happy to be described as living in an alternate reality where sites like today’s Hulu do not represent the entire future of video services. I hope [...]
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Posted September 29, 2009 ¬ 3:37 pmh.Steve Christian
Are Internet video services, such as Hulu and the iPlayer, a threat to established pay-TV operators? The jury is still out. While pundits insist that a significant number of current pay-TV subscribers will stop their monthly payments and go wholly broadband, some surveys suggest that overall we are just all watching more video from all [...]
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