What effect will the FCC’s decision on allowing selectable output control for set-top boxes? A surge of interest in forensic watermarking for home theater on demand release windows.

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 [...]

The promise of video watermarking has always been alluring to technologists and content owners. They like the idea of embedding an invisible forensic mark on valuable content in order to protect assets and possibly catch the bad guys. And with high-profile success stories like the Academy Awards busts on pirated screener copies traced using forensic [...]