Chunghwa Taps Widevine for Broadcast and VOD Subscriber Expansion.Chunghwa Purchases an Additional 300,000 Renewable Security Clients from Widevine SEATTLE -- Widevine Technologies, the world's leading provider of downloadable content protection, forensic watermarking and digital copy protection solutions, today announced that Taiwan's state-owned Chunghwa Telecom has purchased an additional 300,000 Virtual SmartCard clients to secure premium linear broadcast and video-on-demand delivery across a wide range of consumer electronics devices. This is in addition to the 500,000 clients Chunghwa purchased in 2005 for planned subscriber growth. Chunghwa's interactive TV service, Multimedia on Demand (MOD), is one of the largest IPTV (Internet Protocol TV) Also called "TV over IP," IPTV delivers scheduled TV programs and video-on-demand (VOD) via the IP protocol and digital streaming techniques used to watch video on the Internet. deployments in the world. Customers of the MOD service can take advantage of a wide range of video-on-demand, near VOD (NVOD NVOD Near Video On Demand ), karaoke-on-demand and linear broadcast channels. Widevine Cypher is used exclusively to protect the entire Chunghwa multimedia footprint across Taiwan. "The expansion of Chunghwa's core VOD and linear broadcast offerings is an important step forward in realizing our vision of offering MOD services to our entire subscriber base of four million customers," said Yi-Fong Chang, Managing Director of Chunghwa's Multimedia Department. "Our ability to acquire and license premium content for our fixed-line business has been greatly enhanced by Widevine's comprehensive content protection solutions. We chose Widevine over other solutions because of its solid reputation with Hollywood Studios and it is proven in IPTV deployments worldwide." "Widevine is up to the challenge of keeping Chunghwa's content licenses intact," says Brian Baker, Widevine's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "We are pleased to continue an aggressive expansion across the country and evaluate other opportunities to assist Chunghwa with the major motion picture studios and broadcasters." According to IP media research analyst Colin Dixon of The Diffusion Group, "Now that Chunghwa has proven it can scale its IPTV service, it is beginning to look at bringing those services to multiple consumer devices. Operators need a proven, single security solution such as Widevine's that not only scales but also reaches across set top boxes, PCs and mobile phones." About Widevine Technologies, Inc. Widevine is the leading provider of downloadable content protection, forensic watermarking and digital copy protection solutions for IP video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, cable, satellite, internet and mobile service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of digital content. Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access and digital rights management techniques, Widevine enables operators to acquire and license premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce capital and operational expenditures. An innovator in the industry and holder of four patents, Widevine invented the downloadable Cypher Virtual SmartCard[TM] client, which today protects more IP video set top boxes, consumer electronics devices and PCs in the industry than any other vendor. Widevine is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Dai Nippon Printing (大日本印刷 Dai Nippon Insatsu Co., Ltd (DNP DNP n. Deoxyribonucleoprotein; a complex of DNA and protein that usually yields DNA upon cell disruption and isolation. DNP 2,4-dinitrophenol. ), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS TELUS Telemetric Universal Sensor (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners. About Chunghwa Telecom Headquartered in Taipei, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. has provided Taiwan with telecommunications services, including telephone, mobile, leased-line, Internet access, and other services for over 50 years. Chunghwa is Taiwan's largest mobile service provider in revenues and subscribers of approximately 8.4 million. Chunghwa also is the largest broadband internet access Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just "broadband", is high speed Internet access—typically contrasted with dial-up access over modem. Dial-up modems are generally only capable of a maximum bitrate of 56 kbit/s (kilobits per second) and require the full use of a provider, with nearly 4 million ADSL subscribers and, based on subscribers numbering 4.3 million for HiNet service, the largest internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. . Total internet and data revenues exceeded $1 billion for the first nine months of 2006. For additional information, visit http://www.cht.com.tw/CHTFinalE/Web/. |
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