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  • GTPL Hathway ropes in Verimatrix for secure Android TV rollout

    GTPL Hathway ropes in Verimatrix for secure Android TV rollout

    Mumbai: Digital cable TV and broadband service provider GTPL Hathway Ltd (GTPL) has announced its partnership with Verimatrix leveraging the latter’s Video Content Authority System (VCAS) to protect its Google Android TV-based DVB hybrid set top box.

    Verimatrix (Euronext Paris: VMX) helps power the modern connected world with people-centered security. Verimatrix VCAS is designed as a future-proof and scalable security solution for premium video content. Its DVB Hybrid offers GTPL a combination of protection and flexibility as delivery methods expand and evolve throughout India.

    “Verimatrix is a time-tested content security leader in the market that offers unprecedented ease of deployment and gives us the confidence that we will be ready to easily adapt as our offerings progress,” said GTPL Hathway MD Anirudhsinh Jadeja. “By selecting Verimatrix as our security provider, we gain much more than just studio compliant protection – GTPL gains enhanced workflow and integration options as well as the reliability that we’re ready to rapidly scale up new subscribers across our areas of operation, to any additional devices we choose later, with a single security platform.”

    “We are extremely pleased to announce GTPL Hathway as one of our latest customers,” stated Verimatrix COO and president Asaf Ashkenazi. “GTPL’s large customer base in India is provided a frictionless premium entertainment experience while their operators harness the full power of Verimatrix’s security innovations and award-winning customer support behind the scenes – ensuring GTPL is armed with the peace-of-mind it demands today and the performance and scalability it expects for tomorrow.”

  • ABS Seven Star launches hybrid STBs; targets 2 lakh consumers in Mumbai by Dec 2015

    ABS Seven Star launches hybrid STBs; targets 2 lakh consumers in Mumbai by Dec 2015

    MUMBAI: Innovation is the key to a successful business and realizing this is Mumbai based multi system operator (MSO) ABS Seven Star. 

     

    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, ABS Seven Star, which so far had been operating MPEG 2 headend, has now launched its MPEG 4 headend with as many as 500 national and international channels. Additionally, the MSO has started rolling out MPEG 4 set top boxes (STBs) as well. 

     

    In keeping with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative, these indigenous STBs manufactured by ABS Productions are hybrid boxes with both Ethernet and cable. The STBs have been loaded with facilities like YouTube, web TV, video on demand (VOD), internet browsing, TV Everywhere and cloud computing among others.

     

    “Our offering will convert your television set to a smart TV. The box will have 75 HD and 3D channels. We are also creating content, apart from the ones we have taken the rights for. The box will have 75 of our own channels, which includes education channel among others,” informs ABS Seven Star CMD Atul Saraf.

     

    Priced at Rs 3500, the hybrid box also comes with 5GB online space. “This allows consumers to use their TV set as a computer and save data as well,” he adds. The company has also come up with a HD only box loaded with VOD and internet, which is priced at Rs 2500. 

     

    While 10,000 hybrid boxes have so far been manufactured, ABS Productions has rolled out 30,000 HD boxes and is looking at manufacturing 30,000 boxes every month. 

     

    In order to give a fillip to VAS, ABS Seven Star will provide the services to consumers at a fixed fee of Rs 30 per month. “Consumers will then have to pay for the content they choose to watch,” he says. 

     

    ABS Seven Star has also tied up with content distribution network (CDN) to have a multi screen presence. 

       

    The MSO through these services is looking at an average revenue per user (ARPU) of Rs 1200. “Today, consumers are anyways paying separately for cable and internet. With our new offering, we will be giving them both the services with just one equipment,” informs Saraf. 

     

    ABS Seven Star is connecting through national long distance (NLD) players to have a presence in Rajasthan, UP, Haryana, Bihar and Orissa. “We are looking at acquiring 200,000 consumers in Mumbai by December 2015,” points out Saraf.

  • Cablemas strengthens VOD expansion and strategic partnership with ConaxXtend Multiscreen

    Cablemas strengthens VOD expansion and strategic partnership with ConaxXtend Multiscreen

    NEW DELHI: Conax, a leading global provider of solutions for securing multi-device and digital video content distribution, has tied up with Mexican cable operator Cablemas to further expand their video on demand (VOD) platform with ConaxXtend Multiscreen

    In a contract with security partner Conax, Cablemas which is Mexico‘s second largest operator, is continuing its aggressive market approach by rolling out additional VOD content to the residential and hospitality segment to a multiscreen savvy consumer looking for advanced broadband services. The platform‘s Hybrid STBs are being provided by Evolution Digital.

    Rohit Mehra, VP Americas, Conax, said: “Over the last few years, working hand-in- hand with the team at Cablemas and our strategic partners Evolution Digital and Cubiware for middleware, we continue to evolve and foster innovative and future-driven solutions for guiding Cablemas through digitisation and beyond for realising new revenue channels and churn protection. Conax and partners are privileged to work with the forward-thinking and skilled team at Cablemas.”

    ConaxXtend Multiscreen solution offers not only VOD solutions, but also advanced services such as Catch up, Live TV, nPVR and multiscreen. Conax will be demonstrating the benefits offered by the Xtend Multiscreen ecosystem this week at Canitec 2013, in Mexico City.

    Owned by power-house Televisa, Latin America‘s second largest media company, Cablemas currently serves over 1.6 million pay-TV subscribers, 315,000 VoIP customers, and 600,000 broadband customers, in more than 50 cities across Mexico.

    Integrating the VOD part of the ConaxXtend Multiscreen solution will provide Cablemas with flexibility to add more local content to their platform and add a rich library to their Hospitality and Residential markets.

    The partnership is enabling Cablem??s to revolutionise its growth and penetration of the digital TV market by providing advanced services to consumers throughout Mexico. Cablemas continues to develop for a quality product offering and customisation, both in packaging and user interface. The operator is providing a consumer experience and a vision for the future. higher security and a simple, yet elegant VOD offering and market differentiator, enabled reduce churn and illegal distribution, and increase revenue through premium VOD content – while continuing to add new features and solutions, such as a bouquet of value-added triple play services.