Archive for the ‘pay TV’ Category

Non-proprietary DRM Standards Unlock Market, Helps Assure Consumer Confidence

DECE and Project Canvas have selected open, non-proprietary DRM standards to secure content in these ground-breaking initiatives, including Marlin.

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Q&A with Videonet’s John Moulding on the Whole Home Video Debate, Part 2 of 2

Part II of our interview with Editor John Moulding who recently completed the “Supporting the ‘any screen, anywhere’ video consumer,” report now available on Videonet. We tackle the drivers behind whole home video, current definitions of “cloud-based TV” and the technical challenges that operators still need to overcome to meet consumers’ expectations.

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Meet us at HITEC to Secure Your Entertainment

IP video delivery in hospitality applications has the most advanced and cost effective technology. Visit us at HITEC to see how VCAS for IPTV can secure your premium content and VOD services.

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Putting the OTT Genie Back in the Bottle for Pay-TV Operators

Some operators have created the consumer expectation of free content and now they are having a hard time putting the “genie back in the bottle” when it comes to charging a fee for that content. It really puts into question the first mover advantage efforts by OTT providers to offer free content, as it appears they have potentially cannibalized their own long-term revenue streams. The question is if they can successfully extract money from existing and/or new viewers.

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The Good, Bad and the Realistic at IPTV World Forum 2010

Sitting at a cafe in Heathrow airport after the IPTV World Forum and sipping a cup of very good coffee, I am pondering over my impressions from the show. It is a fascinating and very fragmented world. Too many components, too many dependencies, too complex integration and most likely an involved customization effort. (I saw this echoed [...]

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A Landmark Deployment for Cardless Security

Verimatrix deploys industry’s first cardless security system with Filipino broadcaster ABS-CBN on DVB-S and IPTV networks within a unified security head-end

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What Operators Should Consider When Upgrading their Networks

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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Revenue Loss and Opportunities in Asia

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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Sacred Cows and the New Pay-TV Marketplace

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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Revenue Security Takes on New Meaning

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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