Tag Archives: DRM
Ultraviolet could actually work
Ultraviolet has been working steadily from concept to practice and it has had a number of problems, mostly around usability… something that its main competitor (Apple Fairplay) does not suffer from. Now though, it has reached an important point in its attempt to hit the big time and it is not the signing up of [...]
Memories of IBC2011
It has been over two weeks since my heady five days at the RAI in Amsterdam, the first without construction work for the first time in quite a few years. As always there was an awful lot of catching up with friends and ex-colleagues, but there was a serious amount of tech fun to see [...]
Content Protection in an Unmanaged World
Sometimes I see an article that has so spot on a set of messages, that you just have to draw attention to it… Andrew Glasspool, Founder and Managing Partner at the business and technology consultancy firm Farncombe. “There is the potential for a train smash when Connected TV has become mass-market and you try to [...]
Content Security Troubles for Connected TV
It is the elephant in the room when it comes to OTT – Can the content owner be sure that they get paid for their content? Boxee and Netflix are working to resolve Boxee’s specific issues. We’re in a bit of an awkward spot at the moment.The Netflix app is up and running on Boxee [...]
IBC2010 is at an end
There… it is finished, and by many accounts it has been a very successful one for the industry, although I would like to see the gross receipts from business done before I would crown it. It was a business-like IBC, with no real wow ‘almost products’, but an awful lot of ready to ship technology [...]
Apple TV and Fairplay Blockage
Well Apple has given us that one more thing, the new improved Apple TV, However this has caused me to think about one of the less understood aspects of the Apple ecosystem… Fairplay – Apple’s DRM system. Well what caused me to think about this ‘almost’ hidden DRM? Well what Fairplay gives you is the [...]
Digital Britain
OFCOM with Lord Carter has published the Interim report about the vision for some of the country’s critical digital services and communications issues, and it was readily digested by all and sundry. The press have really dissected the report for its facts which you can via your favourite search engine, readily find out. Alternatively can [...]
Mutterings On Competition
Reading through my very own selection of blogs (via Google Reader), I gain a lot of information across a wide number of different subjects. Some relevant information, I place in my own customised ‘The Deeper News Headlines‘ feed that you can find just at the top right. Well today, I found something that I had [...]
BBC and Open Source – Launch of new variant DIRAC CODEC
The BBC will be launching a new variant of their DIRAC Codec at IBC 2007 in September. The BBC have had some very obvious and high profile problems with their use of proprietary and Windows only DRM for their iPlayer. It seems very interesting that they have expended a lot of effort on their own [...]