On November 15, 2018, the main trial against five men accused of operating illegal card-sharing servers on a large scale began before the economic criminal chamber of the regional court […]
Netflix confirms ad testing
Netflix is planning to run ads between episodes to subscribers in some territories.
Irdeto: Criminals profit with stolen OTT credentials
Hundreds of stolen login details for popular OTT services are available every month on the dark web for an average of only $8.81, potentially putting consumers at risk and impacting […]
AWS Elemental and Friend MTS partner for video security
Friend MTS has announced interoperability with its Distribution iD watermarking and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elemental MediaConvert.
Alibaba’s Youku selects Irdeto Rights for ChinaDRM
Youku, the Alibaba-owned online video streaming service provider, has selected Irdeto Rights for ChinaDRM to safeguard premium content delivery.
Bitmovin streamlines RTL’s German online platforms
CBC, the technical services subsidiary of German broadcast group Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland, has selected the HTML5 web player and SDKs from US online video technology provider Bitmovin.
StarTimes, SMiT introduce CI Plus 1.3 CAM to Africa
StarTimes and SMiT are to jointly launch CI Plus 1.3 CAM with an operator profile function on the African market.
Irdeto launches Android TV security solution
Irdeto has launched its Android TV security solution named Irdeto Armor, to protect the device, data and services built on Android TV.
Xtra TV starts Verimatrix transition
The Ukrainian DTH platform Xtra TV has begun the transition from a card encoding system to Verimatrix conditional access.
SRG Switzerland to show FIFA World Cup 2018 in Ultra HD
Swiss public broadcaster SRG will transmit the FIFA Football World Cup 2018 on its channels live in Ultra HD. This was confirmed to Broadband TV News by an SRG spokesman.