Access Co. addresses digital security with ViewRight
Access Co. has launched its ‘studio confident’ media sharing solution in partnership with Verimatrix, the specialist in securing an enhancing revenue for multi-screen digital TV services around the globe.
This solution features the integration of 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.”
This collaborative solution ensures that studios and other content owners can now be confident that their most valuable content, such as early release HD movies, can be securely shared between devices while ensuring that content usage constraints and privileges are adhered to. By 2014 it is predicted that US households will have on average 24 connected devices. Multiscreen will become even more exciting for the broadcast industry when these devices are all connected and sharing content.
“Consumers are getting a real buzz from sharing user generated content between devices. Now thanks to the ACCESS and Verimatrix collaboration, they can have the same exciting experience with the most commercially valuable content,” said Petr Peterka, CTO, Verimatrix. “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,” concluded Peterka.
ACCESS CO.’s ACCESSMyTV social TV and over-the-top platform is slated to launch in Germany during Q4 2012. ACCESSMyTV is integrated with a new Fortis DVB-S2 HbbTV ready set-top box, enabling consumers to build and share OTT channels through Facebook.
The ACCESSMyTV-powered set-top box from Fortis enables German consumers to watch and interact with terrestrial TV, enjoy OTT content using HbbTV plus build their own personal TV OTT web video channels, watch them back on any device connected to the Internet, and take part in the Social TV revolution through integration with social media networks such as Facebook. This social network sharing of user-built personal web video channels will drive consumers towards ACCESSMyTV and the Fortis set-top box and enable them to see how they too can share in Germany’s ACCESSMyTV powered social TV revolution.
“ACCESSMyTV really puts German consumers at the frontier of next generation TV through its integration of social media and OTT with Germany’s HbbTV Smart TV applications,” said Dr. Neale Foster, VP of Global Sales IA, ACCESS. “With this launch Germany’s consumers can build personal web video channels, watch them back on any device and use social media networks such as Facebook to publicize and share these channels. I’m really looking forward to watching this powerful viral marketing effect working for both ACCESS and Fortis.”
ACCESSMyTV is an exciting new multiscreen, social video OTT platform managed by ACCESS that provides a structured route for the monetization of OTT video content, games, and apps. ACCESSMyTV works on any PC, web browser or iOS device connected to the Internet. Users can create their own channels on the go and share them with friends on Facebook for all to watch on the big screen using the Fortis set-top box available in German retail outlets. ACCESSMyTV creates deep consumer engagement and a viral marketing dynamic through the creation of personalized OTT web video channels.
“By integrating the ACCESSMyTV offering with DVB-S2 and HbbTV we’ve got an incredibly exciting solution for any German consumer that wants to experience cutting-edge TV,” said Jake Lee, sales & marketing director, Fortis. “We’re launching ACCESSMyTV because TV viewers no longer want a solely ‘lean-back’ experience. With HbbTV support, access to a huge range of free web video and the ability for consumers to build personal OTT channels and share them with their friends on Facebook, this new Fortis STB makes sure we give the consumer great entertainment on many devices, not just the TV.”
ACCESS Partner Demos Bring Multiscreen to Life
ACCESS CO., LTD, (Stand 14.103) will be demonstrating market leadership in Connected Home, Smart TV solutions, OTT and multiscreen media sharing by delivering a line-up of world leading technologies at IBC 2012 that enable operators, device manufacturers, broadcasters and content owners to create new opportunities for commercial growth. As well as demonstrating solutions on its own stand, ACCESS products will feature on several partners stands where visitors will be able to see how ACCESS technologies are being integrated into a wide variety of devices to deliver exciting, next generation experiences to consumers.
Visitors to ACCESS’ partner stands will be able to see how elements from its product range such as TV-centric HTML5 browsers, HbbTV solutions, home networking products and OTT solutions can work collectively or individually to offer monetizable, multiscreen strategies that drive greater revenue generation.
“IBC2012 is not only an important opportunity to meet many of our customers, but to also show visitors tangible examples of how our joined-up solutions can be integrated with other applications to meet today’s business needs as well as the exacting demands of consumers,” said Dr. Neale Foster, VP of Global Sales IA, ACCESS. “It’s great to have such a range of high quality partners to work with and their choice of our solutions validates the work that we are doing. By working in collaboration with our global partners, delivering our specialist knowledge of solutions in multiscreen and listening closely to our customers’ feedback ACCESS is uniquely placed to help the TV industry continue to advance.”