Conax has  launched a new content protection platform, Conax Contego. CEO Berit Svendsen confirmed that the new security platform will be the company’s primary vehicle for expansion in a global market with tremendous growth potential. The company will develop future media opportunities based on its innovative new security technology. The Conax Contego content security platform […]

Viaccess has announced a new generation smart card, PC5, designed to fight the latest forms of piracy, including Control Word (CW) sharing, regardless of the distribution network. The PC5 smart card is specifically designed to combat the current piracy market and to continue to protect the assets of Viaccess’ Pay-TV clients. This reinforces Viaccess’ strategy […]

Flash memory card specialist SanDisk and digital pay-TV technology solutions provider NDS have successfully combined NDS MediaHighway set-top box (STB) software and SanDisk P4 solid state drives (SSD) to enable a new range of lower cost set-top box (STB) with DVR like functionality. By provisioning a STB with a small amount of storage, operators can […]

Irdeto’s Broadband solution for content management and distribution is at the core of the newly launched Sky Deutschland VOD iPad application.  The VoD iPad application, which enables consumers to access live streaming of sport events as well as access to news and sports clips, was developed by reply/syskoplan in partnership with bitmama, Irdeto (VoD), Plazamedia […]

Widevine Technologies has raised a fresh round of capital. Chief Executive Brian Baker said he plans to announce the financing and details of a strategic partnership with a large customer in the coming weeks. A Securities and Exchange Filing indicated that Widevine had raised over $7 million.

Digital TV company Kudelski has purchased approximately 60 per cent of the shares in OpenTV Corp it had not already owned for $1.55 a share, taking its voting rights to 91 per cent. In February, Kudelski had proposed buying the remainder of OpenTV’s shares for $1.35 per share, but withdrew that bid in June after […]

Thousands of Xbox 360 owners who have been cut off from Microsoft’s Xbox Live service will have to buy a new console if they want to play online again, though modified consoles will still work offline. Microsoft says offenders machines will be permanently barred and “unable to connect to Xbox Live”. Microsoft has barred as […]

The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) plans to establish an organisation to supervise the new media industry, with a particular focus on evaluating new media content “transaction prices” and the “tort value” in copyright infringement cases. At the beginning of November, SARFT’s legal department sent a task force to China Central Television […]

Ofcom has rejected the BBC’s request to introduce encryption to Freeview to limit the illegal copying of high-definition TV shows, until issues raised by organisations including the Open Rights Group are addressed. The BBC is trying to change the Freeview multiplex licence to allow copy protection technology so shows on its HD channel, which will […]

EchoStar Europe has integrated Latens' card-less CA and middleware solution with its hybrid HDX-600 platform to create a secure and readily deployable solution for IPTV and broadband TV operators. "In order to support our strategy in Europe, it is imperative that we partner with a number of the industry's leading conditional access and middleware solutions", […]