Widevine Secures Digital Media Delivery and Playback on Archos Portable Video Players
March 14, 2008 — Widevine Technologies, a provider of multiformat, multiplatform content protection, has announced that it now secures motion pictures, episodic TV and music on Archos’ line of portable video players and WiFi digital video recorders.
The joint solution enables entertainment service providers to confidently deliver premium content to the Archos devices, while ensuring content is protected and cannot be shared.“Archos devices provide not only the highest quality video and music experience for consumers, but also Web access for enjoying streaming TV shows, radio stations, podcasts and other protected content wherever consumers go,” said Henri Crohas, Archos founder and CEO. “Our relationship with Widevine ensures that consumers can access protected media streamed to our devices—whether on their commute to work or streaming from the Web in their living room. As the growth of IPTV and online video grows, so does the need to protect content rights and ensure a high quality consumer experience. Archos and Widevine are focused and delivering on both.”
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Comprehensive Content Security for Video Operators &
Internet Digital Media Providers™
As the leading provider of multiplatform, multiformat content security solutions for video operators, Widevine is the best choice of studios and broadcasters for protecting premium content. Widevine enables telco, cable, internet, mobile and satellite service operators to acquire and distribute premium content for maintaining and generating expanded revenue opportunities.
Widevine Secure service operators are guaranteed to acquire and distribute premium studio and broadcaster content across any network to any Widevine Secure device. This guarantee further enables video operators to efficiently and affordably combat piracy.
Widevine Cypher® ensures linear broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), file downloads, progressive downloads and streamed media are protected—regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies.
An innovator of content security technologies and solutions, Widevine delivered the first renewable security client, the Cypher Virtual SmartCard to market in 2001. It extracted operator dependence on any platform, network or video format—revolutionizing the renewal speed and relegating hardware and physical solutions obsolete. Today, Widevine protects more IP-based video set-top boxes, PVRs, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices than any other content security vendor in the industry.
Now, with consumption tracking and digital copy protection, for enhanced PC protection, Widevine Cypher enables content owners and internet service providers to guarantee ad-supported revenue models across the open internet to PCs—a first in the industry.
Designed to thwart and identify pirates, Widevine Mensor™ tracks and identifies content distributed across any network—finally making it possible to identify when, where and to what consumer device content is distributed. Since 1999, Widevine has protected over $3B in studio assets with Mensor. Used in concert with Widevine Cypher, video operators can enjoy earlier release windows for premium content distribution.
Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Bear Stearns Constellation Ventures, Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), Macrovision (NASDAQ: MVSN), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
