White Papers
In collaboration with our partners, CASBAA selects the latest business and technical papers related to the pay-TV industry.
The Digital Cable TV Industry: Paving the Road to Success
Company: NDS
Indian cable TV industry has witnessed many ups and downs since its inception but has managed to maintain a firm foothold in the country's TV viewing homes.
Selectable Output Control
Company: Verimatrix
Published: June 22, 2010
Selectable Output Control (SOC) has recently been authorized by the FCC for use in the USA. This paper by Verimatrix explains what SOC is, how it prevents piracy of high-value movie content, and how it can be complemented by using other technologies.
Integrated Watermarking
Company: Verimatrix
Published: September, 2009
This whitepaper focuses on how digital video watermarking can directly address some key challenges in the revenue protection and generation picture of content distribution systems. In particular, it illustrates how watermarking technologies can be effective in deterring piracy, opening up new business models and reducing the challenges of content portability.
Software vs. Hardware content security
Company: Verimatrix
Published: September, 2009
The whitepaper allows you to understand the modern set-top boxes with powerful two-way connectivity; A shift from television to online and mobile TV viewing and the integration of IP technologies into broadcast standards.
Mobile data: The rising star of the U.S. wireless industry
Company: SNL Kagan
Published: April 06, 2009
From 2006 to 2008, data revenue catapulted from less than 6% of wireless service revenue to almost 22%, enabling carriers to grow total revenue by 20%, despite an increasingly saturated market and waning pricing power. In this report, SNL Kagan's expert wireless analysts take a close look at the future of mobile data. Read the exclusive study to learn why SNL Kagan anticipates continued double-digit gains for data revenue over the next four years and which services are expected to fuel that growth.
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Global IPTV Summary: 5-Year IPTV Projections for 6 World Regions
Company: SNL Kagan
Published: March 24, 2009
During the last four years, IPTV has evolved from a sideline pay-TV platform to a full-fledged market alternative. This exclusive study from SNL Kagan surveys the current state of IPTV and presents forecasts for the platform's growth over the next five years in six regions: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Read The State of Global IPTV to learn how SNL Kagan’s experts expect IPTV to alter the global multichannel marketplace in the years to come.
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Securing DVB Hybrid Networks
Company: Verimatrix
Published: March 18, 2009
Convergence between broadcasting, broadband and mobile communications is creating
new challenges and business opportunities for the whole content delivery value chain. This white paper allows you to understand 1. The current migration opportunities for pay-TV operators; 2. How IP is playing a central role in enabling business model enhancements; 3. Content security issues from multiple perspectives – operator, content owner and regulator and 4. How to marry flexible, layered security to hybrid networks.
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Radio fights the downturn with cost-cutting, re-capitalization and new revenue streams
Company: SNL Kagan
Published: March 10, 2009
In the 2008-2009 financial meltdown, many broadcast stocks have been beaten down to little more than option values, but that doesn't mean all investors are shunning the sector. As companies recapitalize to the lowered leverage ratios acceptable today, there is a chance for opportunistic investors to enter at levels that would have been impossible a year ago. This exclusive study from SNL Kagan delves into today’s valuation benchmarks, and explores the future economics of the business.
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Enabling the new world of pay TV
Company: Verimatrix
Published: Nov 04, 2008
Rising consumer demand for access to pay-TV on an “anywhere, anytime” basis is challenging service providers to adopt unified content security strategies that will support the seamless 3-screen experience customers are looking for.
Managing the triple threat to triple-play
Company: Arbor Networks
Published: Nov 04, 2008
Network service providers (NSPs) that can fulfill customer requirements for high levels of quality and performance are clearly positioned to dominate the triple-play market, which is still in an early, land-grab stage.
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IP Broadcasting and the Importance of Session Initiation Protocol
Company: Tieline Technology
Author: Glen Davies
Published: Mon, 27 Oct 2008
SIP is already providing interoperability between different codec brands in a multitude of situations. The influence of SIP is certain to grow as broadcasters work with industry stakeholders to further develop SIP functionality in years to come.
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Channels Change Everything - Channel Based Internet Network For A Mobile World
Company: ViaCLIX
Author: Reid Martin
Published: Fri, 3 Oct 2008
ViaCLIX?'s CBIN uses alpha, alphanumeric, or glyphs (labels, symbols, and / or pictures) to connect client systems to specific channels within a channel network that can contain an unlimited amount of channels. Each channel is assignable and can be purposed in a variety of ways.
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Achieving global consumer adoption of mobile TV
Company: Telegent Systems
Published: Sep 01, 2008
The mobile TV market is characterized today by highly fragmented standards and slower than expected consumer adoption.
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Pragmatic Content security as a business model enabler
Company: Nagravision
Published: September 2008
The advent of alternative delivery networks for media entertainment content aggregation propositions and the different commercial bundles built around those parameters holds a significant risk to increasingly fragment the entertainment offer for the end user. An evolving home network reality – right, but what does it mean to the different stakeholders? This paper presents the implications of content security and content propagation in the home while delivering a consistency of experiences for the end user.
DVB-CPCM an enabler for new content business models?
Company: Nagravision
Published: September 2008
Over the past few years the value of content being distributed over different delivery networks has greatly increased. Paradoxically, the re-distribution of content over the same networks can be accomplished with ease. This situation has led content owners to enforce security measures to protect their content – called Content Protection Technology (CPT). This paper mainly aims at providing selection criteria for such a CPT and eventually proposes one technology that fulfils these criteria, the DVB standard named ‘Content Protection and Copy Management’ (CPCM).
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From hybrid to convergence
Company: Nagravision
Published: September 2008
Hybrid solutions are moving us closer towards truly converged services. What was a mere interesting concept a couple of years ago has now developed into what looks like the de facto leading deployment scheme for digital TV. Each link in the convergence chain will need to
protect assets adequately. Content security needs to evolve in line with the hybrid/converged deployment, and suit arbitrary combinations of different delivery methods. The more converged the services become, due to cross-selling of content, evolution of new business models
and multiple delivery networks and devices, the more experience consistency will become the essential differentiator for successful pay TV service providers.
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MediaFLO FLO Technology
Company: Qualcomm
Published: Mon, 21 July 2008
Qualcomm's MediaFLO technology was designed specifically to efficiently and economically broadcast multimedia content to millions of mobile users simultaneously. In designing MediaFLO technology, Qualcomm has effectively addressed key challenges involved in the delivery of multimedia content to mass consumers. Unencumbered by legacy terrestrial or satellite delivery formats, MediaFLO offers better performance for mobility and spectral efficiency with minimal power consumption. This paper provides a brief overview of MediaFLO and its key air interface characteristics.
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Delivering converged quad-play services with IPTV and IMS
Company: Nortel
Credit: Telecom Asia
Published: Mon, 30 June 2008
This paper looks at the challenges facing carriers looking at the opportunities that quad play can bring to the business. There is an elegant and cost-effective way to not just deliver a video, voice, data bundle and IPTV but to seamlessly integrate them into a richly interactive and personalized experience. The trouble is, the services are still separate everywhere except on the bill in the customer's mailbox.
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My first mobile TV
Company: Strand Consult
Credit: Telecom Asia
Published: Thu, 03 April 2008
A lot has been said and written about mobile TV, what is really is and how it will develop.
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VCAS for Cable IPTV - Enabling Rich IPTV over Today's Cable Networks
Company: Verimatrix
Author: Verimatrix
Published: Fri, 7 Mar 2008
In the VCAS for Cable IPTV software-based content security solution, Verimatrix eliminates the vulnerabilities related to smart card-based architectures through the leverage of proven two-way Internet security protocols, a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) public/private key pair system and X.509 digital certificates to ensure the integrity of all components in the broadcast chain. A downloadable security system for IPTV clients is not only more secure, it enables less expensive STB hardware and the renewable ViewRight STB security software can be updated as required.
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IPTV for local TV distribution
Company: Netvue
Author: Jonathan Rackowe
Published: Fri, 16 Nov 2007
IPTV Streaming provides an ideal solution for distribution of television and video channels in the business environment. It provides better quality than conventional analogue distribution and offers the advantages of new services and the ability to reach a wider audience.
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'Show me the money' - Strategies for success in IPTV
Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Published: Nov 2007
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is a term that many people use but few can define. Consumers are confused about what it means. And IPTV services themselves are divided into two forms: one distributed via the PC ('web-TV'); the other via the TV using a set-top-box on a closed broadband connection (IPTV).
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The cost-effective route to interactivity
Company: IMPALA
Author: Cutts, MD, Strategy & Technology
Published: Wed, 1 Aug 2007
MHEG is both cost-effective and technologically efficient. It is highly focussed on the task at hand - that is, being a system for TV interactivity. It carries no baggage and it occupies a small amount of "space" in the receiver to handle those applications that are specifically designed to enhance the TV experience. It benefits from a lightweight user interface and it is powerful enough to provide sophisticated interactive services. Including an MHEG-5 1.06 engine is an incidental cost for receiver manufacturers due to the modest memory and CPU requirements.
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Re-speaking the truth
Company: SysMedia
Author: Andrew Lambourne, CEO, SysMedia
Published: Wed, 1 Aug 2007
It is tempting particularly given the high standards of accuracy that are demanded and achieved for language translation subtitling in Europe to demand 100 per cent accuracy in live subtitling. The only way to do this is to make more time available, either by delaying the audio/video, or by delaying the subtitles so that a second operator (or more) can attempt to correct the text.
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Digital Video - Encoder & Decoder Overview
Company: Video Clarity
Author: Bill Reckwerdt, CTO
Published: Jun 6, 2007
Objective Video Quality Metrics that look for blockiness, tiling, spatial, and temporal effects need to understand that different coding techniques create different artifacts. Moreover, many broadcasters (or more generally, encoding / decoding customers) would like to compare different coding techniques before making a buy decision.
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Video Testing for Broadcasters
Company: Video Clarity
Author: Bill Reckwerdt, CTO
Published: Jun 6, 2007
Equipment for video quality testing needs to be defined, which can capture, play, and analyze any two video sequences. Further, as new input/output modules are continuously under development, the test equipment should use an open-architecture approach to ease upgradeability.
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The Economics of News
Company: Quantel
Author: Quantel
Published: May 19 ,2007
The News business has undergone massive recent change - yet some TV, Cable and Satellite broadcasters still work in a traditional largely tape based environment, or with very early disc based systems.
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Mobile TV Production - Expectations, Challenges and Strategies
Company: V4x
Author: David Amselem, co-founder of V4x, The Mobile TV Factory
Published: Apr 10, 2007
Given the fact that Mobile TV is a relatively new development, Television Stations need to control the amount of capital investment and on-going expenses that will be required to produce the Mobile TV channel.
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IPTV-Based Video Telephony - Deploying IP Set-Top-Boxes for Live Interactive Video Services
Company: Radvision Ltd
Author: Radvision Ltd
Published: Apr 3, 2007
Expanding on the success of IPTV-based interactive video services such as VoD (Video on Demand) and EPG (Electronic Program Guide), the ground is ripe for introduction of full interactive video services to residential and business customers based on IPTV and IP set-top-box models.
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Entertainment & Media Insights 2007
Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Published: April 2007
E&M 2006 transaction activity was generated by both corporate and financial buyers and resulted in US$114.6 billion of completed transactions where deal value was disclosed, a record not seen since 2002. With a flood of mega private equity transactions announced in the last two quarters of 2006, and with numerous deals announced in early 2007, we expect this year to produce even more robust results.
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Convergence Monitor: The digital home
Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Published: April 2007
More and more communications and media companies are pushing forward with their triple and quadruple play strategies. For consumers, the possibilities are endless - an unprecedented explosion of choices and new services where they can call the shots and have the power to influence others, the organisation, and the marketplace. For organisations providing content and distribution services, it is an increasingly complex marketplace. Capturing the potential requires a new marketing approach and a new mind-set. Customer focus may very well be the key differentiator in the months and years to come.
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Why IPTV/IP Video Transport is Different from Data and Voice
Company: IneoQuest Technologies
Published: Feb 19, 2007
Service providers that deploy IPTV services, fundamentally rely on their IP networks to transport live IP Video without loss. Without this basic underlining capability there is no IPTV system. IPTV systems with significant transient loss suffer not just from poor quality with the customer base but significant operational issues in both frustration and cost.
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The Relevance of Content Security in IPTV
Company: Verimatrix
Author: Steve Oetegenn, EVP of Global Sales and Marketing
Published: Feb 13, 2007
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is rapidly becoming reality. According to California-based analyst firm Infonetics Research, revenues will soar to more than $44 billion in 2009 and 53 million households worldwide will be watching TV via broadband.
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XTV - Progressive Download
Company: NDS
Published: February 11, 2007
Author: Adrian Wohlfarth
With the introduction of hybrid broadcast/IP set-top boxes, one-way pure broadcast networks such as satellite, have the opportunity to leverage the Ethernet connection on their STBs to create a two-way infrastructure for delivering content-on-demand.
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Beyond IPTV - Why Plain Old Television Won't Cut It For Telcos
Company: TANDBERG Television
Author: Jim Olson, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Published: Oct 16, 2006
Since the turn of the millennium, television has undergone a period of unprecedented change. Across Asia governments have begun the switch from analog to digital terrestrial signals, viewers who had become used to four or five channels now consider hundreds the norm, high-definition and mobile TV have become a reality for many and Tivo-like devices have freed audiences from the constraints of scheduled, linear broadcasting.
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Monetizing Media Through Digital Rights Management
Company: Akamai Technologies
Published: Oct 3, 2006
The Internet has increased the number of options to deliver and consume digital media assets for both content owners and consumers. We are in an age where more and more content is being converted into, or stored in digital format. Today, consumers have increased flexibility in selecting from a variety of content service providers, a multitude of devices, and a variety of 'purchase and download' payment options and subscription models.
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The IPTV Revolution: New Opportunities, New Challenges for Satellite Communications Systems
Company: Globecomm
Author: Thomas Parish, VP, Broadcast Technology, Globecomm Systems
Published: June 23, 2006
An exploration of the technical requirements for satellite-delivered IPTV, including Super Headends, Regional Headends, video-on-demand and interactive services, and standards issues.
The Rise of Lifestyle Media: Achieving Success in the Digital Convergence Era
Company: PricewaterhouseCoopers
Published: Jan 2006
Consumers are increasingly calling the shots in today's converged media environment: They use Apple iPods to make their own music playlists. Personal video recorders allow them to customize television line-ups. Satellite radios pump commercial-free music into their cars. They come together in online communities, generate their own content, mix it, and share it on a growing number of social networks. No longer a captive, mass media audience, today's media consumer is unique, demanding, and engaged.
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Snapshot: White Paper
Company: NDS
Published: June 2004
Snapshot is a patent pending concept from NDS, which enables broadcasters to utilise their existing programming in new ways. Thus, based on rich video content, Snapshot offers the users one-click creation and download of mobile assets, e.g. wallpaper and tunes.
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