Where did the quest for highest quality and best picture disappear? Actually, it did not.

As we discussed with Herve Utheza, president of our partner company RCDb, during a session on “Tapping into the Blu-ray Potential” at NAB 2011, OTT is also coming to our living rooms bringing Hollywood content to a device that everybody is familiar with, is simple to use and always brought quality entertainment for the whole family.

Verimatrix is proud to announce its acquisition Comvenient, a Munich-based DVB conditional access company with an excellent track record and reputation. W’d like to underscore the rationale, with all the current industry hype around OTT video and TV Everywhere, for why the leading IP revenue security company would be investing in DVB broadcast conditional access.

We recognize that we are still in the early days of developing the business environment for adaptive rate streaming and OTT video services – which is why we are organizing the Capitalizing on OTT Breakfast Forum the morning of March 22 just down from the IP&TV World Forum.

Detailed pay-TV subscriber behavior and usage data can be instrumental in enabling more focused and engaging content across multiple platforms. Verimatrix is inherently well-positioned to drive the gathering and tracking of customer viewing information to help our operator customers achieve their larger business goals.

As a long-standing partner to Nokia Siemens Networks (back when they were just Siemens), we are proud to provide the integrated over-the-top (OTT) security component in the company’s recently launched Ubiquity TV. We have been vocal in our position of how pay-TV operators should integrate OTT and adaptive rate streaming technologies with existing managed networks [...]

The majority of our conversations with digital TV operators these days are focused on, ‘what’s next?’ I mentioned this earlier this year, and the main themes still exist. Operators are evaluating the best, and most-cost effective ways to enhance their network that will improve their competitive profile, capture additional revenue or simply better serve current [...]

Verimatrix’s VCAS 3.0 was shortlisted for the CSI 2010 awards in the Best Content Protection category.

Progressive digital TV operators may have to embrace novel technologies that have been designed to effectively scale and solve IP video issues and apply them over their delivery networks. By integrating OTT and adaptive rate streaming technology with pay-TV services, operators can enhance ARPU, subscriber loyalty and lure incremental advertising dollars.

Comcast Media Center has just announced its new fiber-based solution to more efficiently deliver a complete wholesale programming lineup to cable MSOs and its HITS affiliates. Why is this such a big deal? Our assessment is that the new platform is one facet of a seismic shift in the cable industry that has been long [...]

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.