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Widevine announced today that its DRM and adaptive streaming platform for the iPhone is being licensed by Synchronous Communications Co., a local reseller of its products in the Taiwanese market.
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When Best Buy opens its new online video store, the movies sold through the service will be secured with digital rights management (DRM) software from Widevine.
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This article discusses whether or not the television industry has made a good business decision by making shows available online for free. Brian Baker, Widevine CEO, comments that advertisers are not willing to pay top dollar for content delivered over the Internet to PCs and that this could jeopardize the relationship networks have with cable and satellite providers.
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Vestitle announced they have selected Widevine to protect their hosted IPTV service. Widevine Cypher enables Vestitel to encrypt premium content offerings once, while passing rights control to downstream operators and keeping content persistently secure to the subscriber device.
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In this article discussing how seperable security is now mainstream in U.S. STBs, Widevine VP of Marketing Matt Cannard points out how operators need to find a way to get onto new consumer devices with Internet capabilities—or else.
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Widevine Technologies and GridNetworks announced a partnership today that will use Widevine DRM technology to secure online video content delivered to the living room by GridNetworks's GridCast TV service. Widevine's DRM technology could prove to be in high demand if this partnership proves to be effective, as cable companies such as Comcast have recently expressed interest in making cable content available online.
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Widevine is short-listed for the Best Internet TV Technology/Solution product award.
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CDNetworks and Widevine announced a partnership at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CDNetworks customers now have access to Widevine's multiple-format, cross-platform DRM solutions, which cover Windows Media, Silverlight, and Flash, in addition to QuickTime and Real.
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BigBand Networks Inc. and platform-agnostic content security company Widevine Inc. announced a development whereby the vendor's multi-services platform can insert ads into already-encrypted content. The news is just the latest development further fueling telco TV provider interest in advertising systems of all shapes and sizes.
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At TelcoTV, Widevine Technologies Inc. displayed its iPhone encryption client to let carriers offer on-phone movie services. Widevine's security would apply any necessary rules, setting a time limit on how soon you have to complete watching the video, or limiting the number of times you could view it.
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Conditional access provider Widevine is bringing its digital rights management capabilities to mobile video and PC-based viewing as well via a unified content protection platform. Widevine demonstrated how its Cypher Virtual SmartCard can be downloaded onto an iPhone or similar device, and onto a PC as well.
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In this article about the flaw in Amazon’s new Video on Demand service that allowed consumers to capture video content from for free, Widevine is mentioned as offering superior protection for Flash including the ability to protect against real-time “screen scraping.”
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In this article, which broke the news about Amazon’s Video on Demand service that was allowing consumers to view video content for free, the author mentions Widevine’s DRM as one solution that can encrypt online video using Flash and preserve the business models for delivering online video.
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Online movie service CinemaNow announces the latest in a series of efforts to reduce the hassle factor, licensing anti-piracy technology from Widevine that should make it easier for customers to watch CinemaNow movies on their TV sets, Macs, iPods and other portable devices.
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Widevine announced on Monday a deal with CinemaNow in which the online video retailer will use Widevine's multiformat, multiplatform DRM to secure content delivered through a variety of consumer devices as well as PCs.
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Widevine Technologies, a provider of multiformat, multiplatform DRM and digital copy protection solutions, today said that Taipei, Taiwan -based Chunghwa Telecom has purchased an additional 450,000 Cypher Virtual SmartCard clients from Widevine.
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Widevine Technologies has announced that leading Lithuanian multichannel television, telephone and Internet service provider Viginta has selected Widevine Cypher to secure content delivered over DTT, hybrid QAM (cable) and IPTV deployments.
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Widevine Technologies, a provider of multiformat and multiplatform digital rights management and digital copy protection solutions, announced an enhancement to Widevine Cypher that enables traditional television services to be securely delivered direct to major PC players.
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Widevine Technologies last week announced enhanced seek capabilities within Cypher for Digital Media. The new feature enables Adobe enhanced player controls on progressive downloaded H.264 Flash content when using the Adobe Player, which currently is installed on more than 700 million devices. It also works with any http server and can seamlessly support other major video formats based on customer demand.
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By adding enhanced player functionality to its digital rights management (DRM) platform, Widevine Technologies Inc. says its products are now an alternative to Adobe Systems Inc. servers for using Flash with H.264 progressive downloads.
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In this article about the state of DCAS in light of Motorola, Cisco and NDS taking over from Polycipher, Widevine CEO Brian Baker is quoted around the company’s multiformat, multinetwork and multidevice strategy – explaining how a software-based approach such as Widevine’s will allow cable companies to offer secure broadband video services that will rival Hulu, etc.
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Widevine Technologies, the only provider of multiformat, multiplatform DRM and digital copy protection solutions, today announced immediate availability of Widevine Cypher to protect content delivered to Microsoft Windows Media Player versions 9, 10, 11 and Silverlight versions 1 and 2. This milestone represents the first time content can be securely delivered in Windows Media, Silverlight and Adobe Flash environments using a single content protection solution.
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Widevine discusses how its digital copy protection technology can stop would-be pirates from capturing online video as it is played back on the PC.
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Microsoft is working with Widevine to supply a non-Windows DRM for content delivered via Silverlight. "This is the first time Microsoft has partnered (with), endorsed and utilized a third-party DRM technology for their video format," (said) Widevine CEO Brian Baker.
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Widevine Technologies Inc. announced today that it was chosen to provide digital rights management (DRM) to Microsoft Corp. Silverlight, the software giant's hot new streaming media format.
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It took Brian Baker only five minutes to persuade a major U.S. television network that it needed his company's technology to protect their programs from Web pirates.
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Widevine, a multiplatform digital rights management provider, [announced] Tuesday it has added Flash DRM to its library. The Seattle-based company, which touts its independence from content services, devices, operating systems, and video formats as compared to the competition, is looking to widen its domain from telco TV to the open web.
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The debate over copy protection software is so heated, all parties are pointing fingers. Content owners such as record labels accuse companies like Apple and Microsoft of using proprietary anti-piracy software to gain too much control in the market. In turn, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said label greed gave Apple no choice but to use its proprietary software to keep music fans from illegally copying music. Into the fray steps startup Widevine, which says its content protection software is platform-agnostic.
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