ATIS DRM Webinar

The U.S. standards group will host a webinar on Digital Rights Management. It will examine issues surrounding deploying DRM technology and how to measure its impact on QoE end-to-end. As defined by ATIS' IPTV DRM Interoperability Requirements.

The webinar presentation will include:

• IPTV, DRM and QoE requirements from a network solutions provider perspective
• Developing standards for DRM - ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum (IIF)

Moderator:

• John F. Bernhards, Vice President, Marketing & Public Relations, ATIS

Speakers include:

• Dr. Stefan Winkler, Principal Technologist at Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division
• Bob Kulakowski, Chief Technology Officer at Verimatrix, Inc.

Thursday, October 18, 20071:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. EDT/10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. PDT

Register at: http://qoe.symmetricom.com/atis2

DRM is a key issue for IPTV systems and the standards orientation in this webinar should make it worthwhile.

Widevine and Verimatrix Enter Legal Battle

The content protection/digital rights management company Widevine is suing Verimatrix, one of its major competitors for patent infringement based on Widevine's patent for selectively encrypting different portions of data sent over a network. Widevine has offered Verimatrix the opportunity to license its selective encryption patent, but Verimatrix has not responded.

Verimatrix denies Widevine's claims and states that it will vigorously defend itself.

Both of these companies have done well in the IPTV market. The preliminary conclusions from our report "Opportunities in TelcoTV" are that Verimatrix appears to be in a stronger position today because it has been included in the IPTV service of more major telcos than Widevine. This report will be released by the end of this month.