The global market value for pay-TV CAS and DRM will grow significantly ? to $1,957 million in 2016, according to a recent report by Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG). This is about a 30% increase over 2012. While the opportunity for traditional set-top delivery using conditional access has flattened, multi-screen service using digital rights management […]
The global market value for pay-TV CAS and DRM will grow significantly ? to $1,957 million in 2016, according to a recent report by Multimedia Research Group, Inc. (MRG). This is about a 30% increase over 2012.
While the opportunity for traditional set-top delivery using conditional access has flattened, multi-screen service using digital rights management is growing rapidly and will continue to do so. This reflects the fact that multi-screen delivery will be a major contributing factor towards satisfying operators revenue and customer retention objectives.
Not only must all of these revenue streams be enabled but they also must be protected. In order to do so, content providers expect operators to deploy an end-to-end security framework, support for multiple video formats, multiple DRMs; and increasingly, protected software execution environments and hardware-embedded root-of-trust across a universe of devices.
This report is focused on the broad and fast-moving global market for multi-screen video pay-TV services. It includes detailed category analysis of conditional access systems (CAS) and digital rights management (DRM) systems that are used to secure multi-screen applications against piracy, including those used for TV Everywhere authentication and video gateway home cloud scenarios; and explains how they work. The report also contains a global forecast for video security associated with multi-screen services provided by pay-TV operators.
