IBC 2012 – AMSTERDAM. Software provider ACCESS has partnered with Verimatrix to launch the first ‘studio confident’ media sharing solution.
It integrates Verimatrix ViewRight security with the ACCESS NetFront Living Connect DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) Technology Component.
ViewRight is a component of the Verimatrix Video Content Authority System (VCAS) architecture, which addresses the new video marketplace with a proactive revenue security and enhancement approach for DVB broadcast, hybrid, and IPTV networks. The Verimatrix ViewRight client family is a robust package of portable security applications that provide enhanced security for HLS service delivery, including authentication and fine grain entitlement management for a variety of device categories, including PC/Macs, mobile handsets, tablets, set-top boxes and connected TVs.
“Digital TV could not have taken-off without strong security and the same applies to media sharing, which is why we have worked with Verimatrix to integrate its Viewright security with our NetFront Living Connect media sharing solution,” said Dr Neale Foster, VP of Global Sales IA, ACCESS. “The ACCESS and Verimatrix studio confident media sharing solution enables the content industry to make movies, music and TV sharable between connected devices, freeing media consumption and enabling exciting new business models.”
Through the system studios and other content owners will be able to maintain confidence that their most valuable properties can retain protection while being shared across multiple devices.
“We believe that media sharing is a key enabler of the multi-screen future that the entire broadcast space is rushing towards. It reduces an operator’s need to invest in costly set-top boxes, reduces churn, creates stickiness and enhances revenue security. None of which can happen without developments such as the ACCESS studio confident media sharing solution,” said said Petr Peterka, CTO, Verimatrix.
Some analysts are predicting that US households will have as many as 24 connected devices by as soon as 2014.
