Posts Tagged ‘DRM’

Implications of Project Canvas Selection of Marlin as DRM Standard

Project Canvas Selects Marlin as DRM Standard. Even in this new video delivery age, a strong core security platform provides the essential support for revenue generating services and complements the fundamental free-to-air and catch-up services central to the Canvas vision.

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To Be Free, or Not to Be. Does VP8 Limit Revenue Potential for GoogleTV?

Will service providera will jump on the VP8 bandwagon without being able to accommodate all licensing fees into their business model upfront? From the point of view of revenue security, it seems that rather than uniting the world behind a common (OK, supposedly free) codec, Google is really driving a wedge between commercial content and user-generated content.

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Maintaining Top Position as Global Leader in IPTV Content Protection

Verimatrix Maintains Top Position as Global Leader in IPTV Content Protection according to MRG

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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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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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