Digital Rights Management

As the leading provider of IP video content security solutions, Widevine is the preferred choice for premium content acquisition. Using Widevine products to secure the distribution, identification and tracking of digital content, telco, cable, satellite, Internet and mobile service operators can create new revenue opportunities.

Using a combination of hardware and software-based encryption, Widevine Cypher® persistently encrypts both linear broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content, regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies. As an innovator and technology leader in the industry, Widevine invented the renewable security client, the Cypher Virtual SmartCard. With it, Widevine protects more IP video set-top boxes, PVRs, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices than any other content security vendor in the industry.

Widevine enables video operators to quickly and affordably combat piracy. Widevine Secure operators are guaranteed to acquire and distribute premium studio and broadcaster content across any IP video distribution network to any Widevine Secure device.

Widevine Mensor™ tracks and identifies content distributed across an operator's network making it possible to identify when, where and to what devices content is distributed.

• Telco

• Cable

• Satellite

• Mobile

• Internet Service Providers

Regardless of the network, delivering digital video is wrought with the potential for piracy. Telco, cable, satellite, mobile and internet service providers around the globe are increasingly under pressure to provide a solution to prevent it.

Widevine has innovated and delivered a comprehensive content security system that enables operators in these markets to acquire the content licenses they require and to prevent piracy affordably. As content owners, broadcasters and governments mandate stricter requirements on digital media protection, Widevine continues to deliver the most comprehensive and deployed content security solution. Building upon our market leadership in IP video, Widevine continues to offer the only comprehensive conditional access and digital rights management solution with a downloadable client security.

WIDEVINE PRODUCTS:
Widevine products enable operators to license and acquire content from major studios and broadcasters. Our downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and forensic watermarking solutions secure and watermark content for distribution across IP video networks. Widevine meets today’s content protection requirements while giving operators headroom to meet emerging forensic watermarking requirements in the future.

Content Protection:
Widevine Cypher® delivers downloadable conditional access and digital rights management to protect video content. Built for operator flexibility, Cypher's open content protection platform interoperates with the widest range of middleware, VOD servers and consumer electronics devices in the industry. Operators can finally protect linear broadcast, VOD, PVR, network PVR and SVOD applications with a single solution that meets current and future business requirements of a thriving PayTV operation.

• Cypher Certificate Authority (CA)
  Management and authority for conditional access and digital rights with downloadable client security for STBs, PVRs, PCs and other mobile devices.

• Cypher Virtual SmartCard (VSC)
  Renewable client security for STBs, PVRs, PCs, portable media players and other mobile devices.

• Cypher Virtual SmartCard DVD (VSC-DVD)
  Secure content delivery and storage for HD-DVD and Blu-ray devices.

• Cypher VOD
  File-based pre-encryption and digital rights management for VOD assets.

• Cypher Broadcast
  Real-time encryption and downloadable conditional access for linear broadcast channels.

• Cypher Digital Copy Protection (DCP)
  Piracy protection in the "digital hole" on PCs and consumer video devices.

• Cypher Mobile
  Content protection for mobile video delivery.

Forensic Watermarking
Widevine Mensor™ invisibly watermarks linear broadcast and video-on-demand (VOD) content distributed over any network. Mensor enables content owners, content aggregators and service providers to track and identify where, when and to what devices content is distributed. Utilizing best-of-breed partners, Mensor can watermark content at each stage of the network delivery, from the source to the destination.