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  • Disney adopts anti-piracy protection solution for DVDs

    MUMBAI: Launching an aggressive new effort to combat piracy, The Walt Disney Studios will utilize state-of-the-art encryption technology from Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, for 2005 DVD awards screeners.

    The agreement, which marks a major milestone in the search for an industry-wide solution to deter movie piracy, was announced today by Dick Cook, chairman, The Walt Disney Studios; Jeff Miller, President, worldwide post production and operations; and Bill Jasper, president and chief executive officer, Dolby Laboratories.

    Piracy is one of the biggest threats to the cinema industry, resulting in lost jobs and lost revenues. To combat piracy, Cinea developed its innovative solution, which provides copy protection and piracy tracking for DVDs. Cinea’s solution includes the S-VIEW(TM) DVD player and encryption technology to safeguard content. The S-VIEW DVD player offers the highest-quality picture and sound. It also plays standard DVDs, states an official release.

    In collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Cinea has distributed the SV300 model of its S-VIEW DVD player to nearly 12,000 of the collective voting members. Recipients of the Cinea S-VIEW players simply need to install the player as part of their home entertainment system, as they would install a regular DVD player, and make a phone call or go online to register with Cinea, the release adds.

    Cinea encrypts each disc with a code unique to each member. The Cinea disc delivered to each member will play only on the Cinea S-VIEW DVD player registered by that member. A Cinea encrypted disc cannot be viewed on any other DVD player or computer.

  • Pathfire Ads provides digital media solution

    LAS VEGAS: Pathfire, which claims to be a leading business-to-business provider of digital media content management and distribution services. has introduced Pathfire Ads. This is a new application for the Pathfire Digital Media Gateway (DMG) automated digital IP-multicast distribution platform.

    Pathfire Ads is a complete digital media distribution and management solution that simplifies and streamlines the aggregation, archiving and downstream equipment transfer process for broadcast stations and decreases costs to manage, deliver, track and verify ad and promotional materials.

    The Pathfire DMG, already in use by over 900 US broadcast stations, eliminates the need to monitor and roll tape on scheduled satellite feeds. Content is delivered digitally directly to desktops through the DMG, making access to material quick and convenient. Many broadcast stations are using the DMG to receive and manage their news and syndicated programming. Now Pathfire extends those benefits with the addition of the Pathfire Ads application, to include ad and promotional content as well.

    An official release states that once ad materials have been received at broadcast stations personnel can sit at their desktop computers and use Pathfire Ads to search for specific materials, preview spots and meta data and drag and drop selected content to other station gear such as tape decks or edit suites. All this simplifies the process for preparing ad materials for broadcast. The Pathfire ads application can be installed on multiple desktops so that programme directors, traffic managers and others who need to work with ads and promotional materials have easy access.

    Pathfire’s customers include ABC NewsOne, CBS, CNN Newsource, Getty Images News Services and Image Bank Films, National Geographic Television, NBC.

  • CNBC TV18 selects Front Porch Digital to implement DIVArchive solution

    MUMBAI: Incentra Solutions, Inc. announced that its Front Porch Digital Broadcast and Media Division was selected by TV18 in India to implement a new DIVArchive (Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive) solution in New Delhi.     
    DIVArchive is a software middleware that enables interoperability between large digital media storage devices, video servers, editing systems, and digital media workflow applications in the broadcast, media, and entertainment industries.

    DIVArchive simplifies the process of preserving, managing and accessing content. According to a March 2005 report by industry analyst Datamonitor, DIVArchive is the global leader in broadcast archive management software, as well as the dominant brand within Europe.

    TV18 general manager – technical operations Piyush Gupta said, “We evaluated a number of products for our deployment in India and the Front Porch Digital DIVArchive solution offered the most complete and cost-effective feature set. The DIVArchive product advantages are significant, and the references from satisfied customers are compelling. We believe Front Porch Digital is uniquely positioned to supply a solution to meet our long-term needs for functionality and scalability.

    “We are delighted to have been selected by TV18 to manage their digital archive in New Delhi. Their endorsement of our DIVArchive sends a strong message to the Indian market. This is our first installation at TV18 and we are excited about future opportunities with the company going forward. This is also our second installation in India and we look forward to adding more in the near future,” said Front Porch Digital International vice president and general manager Rino Petricola.

  • OpenTV launches IPTV solution for C&S telecom operators

    MUMBAI: OpenTV Corp, providers of technologies and services enabling the delivery of digital and interactive television, has announced the introduction of OpenTV Core 2.0 for IPTV for cable, satellite and telecommunications operators.

    The new product, which will be commercially available this June, extends the capabilities of OpenTV’s proven, scalable middleware solutions to network operators wishing to deploy IPTV services over traditional and hybrid broadband IP networks.

     

    “OpenTV Core 2.0 for IPTV ensures IPTV support for our worldwide customer base,” said OpenTV’s senior vice president and general manager of products and marketing Tim Evard.

    Evard pointed out that with OpenTV IPTV, operators can now build IPTV services without compromising on advanced features such as video on demand (VOD), personal video recording (PVR) and interactivity, all while relying on a proven platform with global distribution, support services and a world-wide developer community with OpenTV applications and content ready to deploy.

    Whether a new entrant into the digital TV market wants to deploy IPTV, or a cable or satellite operator wants to leverage its existing infrastructure to deploy over IP, OpenTV Core 2.0 for IPTV will enables them to deliver scalable solutions quickly to their subscribers.

     
     

    OpenTV brings advanced, feature-rich digital TV services to the world of IPTV including VOD, PVR and network PVR, enhanced and interactive television, games, information services and personal and protected media distribution throughout the connected home.

    OpenTV Core 2.0 for IPTV also makes it easy for OpenTV’s over 35 set-top box manufacturer licensees to easily deliver IP capable set-top boxes with OpenTV Core middleware and its robust set of digital and interactive television features.

    In addition, OpenTV’s open interfaces with digital television vendors provide network operators maximum flexibility with freedom of choice for rights management and content protection systems (CA/DRM), media formats, video servers, set-top boxes and OSS/BSS systems.

  • Mediaware offers solution for IBF-AAAI members

    MUMBAI: Mediaware Infotech (MI) has developed an integrated credit management system (ICMS) for billing related issues involving TV industry constituents and ad agencies. MI MD Biswajit Das presented the solution based on virtual data entry to the IBF(Indian Broadcasting Federation)-AAAI (Advertising Agencies Association of India) joint committee in early March.
    ICMS envisages using the Internet to create a common platform for loosely coupled community of broadcasters and ad agencies/media buyers. This is achieved by developing and installing small application software for each member of this community: TV channel, ad agency, IBF and AAAI.

     

     
    MI MD Das establishes the capabilities and credentials of the company to come up with a workable solution. “Mediaware Infotech is a 12 year old company active in the field of IT solutions for the advertising and media industry. With over 300 installation in India and the middle east, Mediaware offers ready solutions, media databases, customized projects, strategic consultancy as well as internet-based solutions,” Das adds.

    Mediaware demonstrated its virtual data entry technology and enterprise application integration (EAI) solution to the the following members of the IBF – AAAI joint committee: the television industry was represented by Vinod Berry (Sony Entertainment Television), Ashok Soni (Star), Arun Agarwal (Zee), Venkat (Eenadu), Krishnan (AajTak) and others; the agencies were represented by Sunder Swamy (RK Swamy), Sam Balsara (Madison), Nagesh Alai (FCB Ulka), Chinta Rao (McCann) amongst others.

    Madison group chairman Balsara confirms to the indiantelevision.com team that the total outstandings from established agencies till date is around Rs 600 million. During Ficci FRAMES 2003, DD director general Dr SY Quraishi had mentioned that the outstandings figures he had obtained from the IBF were in the range of Rs 1.04 billion from all agencies right from the beginning till date.

    While speaking to indiantelevision.com, MI MD Das elaborated on the methodology: “Using current Internet technology, one can connect two different applications running on different computer networks located in different parts of the globe. Similarly, transaction data entered in one software can be automatically updated in another. The ICMS module developed for the IBF-AAAI members uses no leased lines, doesn’t need thick bandwidth pipeline or 24X7 Internet connection. It is seamless and doesn’t need any manual intervention.”

    The proposed ICMS solution seeks to automate the function of AAAI-IBF – use paperless model; ensure that no data is hosted on the web server; implement security levels as per requirements and ensure no exposure of individual players’ data.
    The following is the proposed workflow model:

    Part I: Ad agencies’ confirmation of monthly billing by TV channels
    1. The solution is initiated at the TV channel end. Every month, each channel will enter ad agency-wise billing figures (top line, without any client/brand wise break-ups) in its local application.
    2. With Mediaware’s Virtual Data Entry technology, this data will be simultaneously updated in IBF’s application software (in IBF’s computer).
    3. After due scrutiny, IBF asks its application software to sort data ad agency wise/TV channel wise.
    4. No sooner than this is done, the data will be updated in AAAI’s software (in AAAI’s computer). After due scrutiny, AAAI asks its application software to split data ad agency wise.
    5. No sooner than this is done, the individual ad agency data will be updated in each ad agency’s software (located in each ad agency’s individual computer).
    6. Each ad agency scrutinises data received and enters “accepted” and “disputed” bill amounts for each TV channel. No sooner than this is finalized by the ad agency, the data will be updated in AAAI’s software.
    7. Once again, after scrutiny, AAAI asks its application software to sort data TV channel wise. No sooner than this is done, the data will be updated in IBF’s software.
    8. Once again, after due scrutiny, IBF asks its application software to split data TV channel wise. No sooner than this is done, the individual TV channel data will be updated in each TV channel’s software (located in each TV channel’s individual computer).
    9. In this manner, after two rounds (16th and 25th of the following months), each TV channel will arrive at an accepted + disputed billing figure for each ad agency for each billing month.

    Part II: Confirmation of monthly payments made by ad agencies to TV channels
    1. The solution is again initiated at the TV channel end. Every month, each channel will enter ad agency-wise payments received for the previous-to-previous month in its local application. With Mediaware’s Virtual Data Entry technology, this data will be simultaneously updated in IBF’s application software (in IBF’s computer).
    2. After due scrutiny, IBF asks its application software to sort data ad agency wise/TV channel wise. No sooner than this is done, the data will be updated in AAAI’s software (in AAAI’s computer).
    3. After due scrutiny, AAAI asks its application software to split data ad agency wise. No sooner than this is done, the individual ad agency data will be updated in each ad agency’s software (located in each ad agency’s individual computer).
    4. Each ad agency scrutinises data received and enters “accepted” and “disputed” bill amounts for each TV channel.
    No sooner than this is finalised by the ad agency, the data will be updated in AAAI’s software.
    5. Once again, after scrutiny, AAAI asks its application software to sort data TV channel wise. No sooner than this is done, the data will be updated in IBF’s software.
    6. Once again, after due scrutiny, IBF asks its application software to split data TV channel wise. No sooner than this is done, the individual TV channel data will be updated in each TV channel’s software (located in each TV channel’s individual computer).
    7. In this manner, after two rounds, each TV channel will arrive at an accepted + disputed payments figure from each ad agency for each billing month.

    Part III: Periodic settlement of disputed figures between ad agencies to TV channels
    Once disputed figures are sorted under the auspices of IBF-AAAI joint committee, this data is entered into the system by IBF.

    Once again the data is automatically updated in AAAI’s software application.

    No sooner than AAAI confirms the settlement figures, the data will be sorted & updated in TV channel’s software application as well as ad agencies’ application software.

    The special features of the ICMS solution is that it can facilitate multi-branch financial accounting; provide real time TV release orders and enable remote data entry.

    “Mediaware has a set of ready-to-customise software for ad agencies, media buyers, TV channels, publications and advertisers. Apart from ready-to-customise software, Mediaware maintains media databases for India and the Middle East,” says Das.

  • Motorola launches wireless b’band solution

    NEW DELHI:Multinational telecom major Motorola launched today its wireless broadband solution here.
     

    The company introduced products at a time when the broadband segment is set to boom after the government has thrown open to the private players under the new broadband policy, a Press Trust of India report stated, adding 20 million broadband subscribers and 40 million Internet subscribers are
    expected by the year 2010.

    Motorola Canopy sales director for Asia, Dennis Stipati, said at the launch, “The company is currently carrying out trial runs with major telecom carriers of the country for its broadband products. Our solutions can offer high speed, scalable, cost effective and easy to install wireless braodband services in India after they have rolled their products in 85 countries.”
     
     

    However, the company officials declined to disclose the names of the telecom carriers with whom they were negotiating for solutions. They also did not disclose any business projections for the current and next financial year.

    Motorola is primarily looking at four business segments to market its products– large telecom carriers, wireless internet service providers, government sector under e-governance programme and corporates.

  • Motorola launches wireless b’band solution

    NEW DELHI:Multinational telecom major Motorola launched today its wireless broadband solution here.
     

    The company introduced products at a time when the broadband segment is set to boom after the government has thrown open to the private players under the new broadband policy, a Press Trust of India report stated, adding 20 million broadband subscribers and 40 million Internet subscribers are
    expected by the year 2010.

    Motorola Canopy sales director for Asia, Dennis Stipati, said at the launch, “The company is currently carrying out trial runs with major telecom carriers of the country for its broadband products. Our solutions can offer high speed, scalable, cost effective and easy to install wireless braodband services in India after they have rolled their products in 85 countries.”
     
     

    However, the company officials declined to disclose the names of the telecom carriers with whom they were negotiating for solutions. They also did not disclose any business projections for the current and next financial year.

    Motorola is primarily looking at four business segments to market its products– large telecom carriers, wireless internet service providers, government sector under e-governance programme and corporates.