DRM for CE Devices in Over-the-Top (OTT) and Home Networking Services
OTT offers pay-TV operators important new opportunities to complement their existing TV services, if they make the right technology choice. By delivering OTT content to subscribers’ TVs and connected devices, pay-TV operators can expand their service, generating significant additional operating and advertising revenues. They also remain the primary supplier for all types of video content including broadcast, VOD and OTT.
But one thing hasn’t changed. Pay-TV operators must protect their service and content in order to earn revenues and maintain subscribers. That’s why they need DRM.
DRM also ensures that all participants in the value chain are remunerated for the value they provide. Without DRM, the business of pay-TV cannot not exist.
That’s why NDS, a market leader in content security, created VideoGuard Connect™, the next generation end-to-end multi-platform solution designed for the pay-TV industry.
VideoGuard Connect extends as far as an operator can sell content—through multiple devices and business models—ensuring that content can be used in all the ways it was meant to be.
Only VideoGuard Connect can offer:
- Industry-leading security rating in an independent security audit, with approval by major Hollywood studios
- Security profiles tailored to the specific requirements of pay-TV operators
- Service and content protection, ensuring that your branded offering remains secure
- Flexibility to meet divergent workflows, business rules and policies
- Support for a wide range of mobile and connected viewing devices, plus an active integration roadmap
- Support for, and management of, multiple client-side DRMs
Furthermore, VideoGuard Connect
- Can be deployed as a stand-alone system or integrated with an existing pay-TV headend, reducing integration and speeding time to market
- Is backed by NDS Operational Security which monitors and confounds illegal access to the operator’s content and service.
Protecting content in rapidly expanding markets
Today, tablets are all the rage, but tomorrow it will be a different device. The retail market for media devices is driving OTT media streaming. It poses many additional security challenges not previously encountered in the traditional pay-TV market. When an operator adds OTT to the business, they need to prevent it from becoming the Achilles’ heel that could undermine the entire service. That’s why pay-TV operators require a flexible yet robust DRM for the world of OTT that can extend to the rapidly expanding number of device types.
Committed to your security and future
NDS is a committed security partner with no agenda other than to work with pay-TV operators. We have built our reputation and our business helping pay-TV operators grow their operations to become market leaders. Our future is tied to your future.