Widevine Technologies

• Private
• US

Dow Jones Description

As the leading provider of multiplatform, multiformat content security solutions for video operators, Widevine is the preferred choice of studios and broadcasters for protecting premium content. Widevine enables telco, cable, internet, mobile and satellite service operators to acquire and distribute premium content for maintaining and generating expanded revenue opportunities. Widevine Secure service operators are guaranteed to acquire and distribute premium studio and broadcaster content across any network to any Widevine Secure device. This guarantee further enables video operators to efficiently and affordably combat piracy. Widevine Cypher ensures linear broadcast, video-on-demand (VOD), file downloads, progressive downloads and streamed media are protected--regardless of video infrastructure, network protocols or compression technologies. An innovator of content security technologies and solutions, Widevine delivered the first renewable security client, the Cypher Virtual SmartCard to market in 2001. It extracted operator dependence on any platform, network or video format revolutionizing the renewal speed and relegating hardware and physical solutions obsolete. Today, Widevine protects more IP-based video set-top boxes, PVRs, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices than any other content security vendor in the industry. Now, with consumption tracking and digital copy protection, for enhanced PC protection, Widevine Cypher enables content owners and internet...

Number of Employees 34

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