Both Irdeto and Widevine announced major DRM deals this week with Irdeto supplying the content protection for a cable operation in India, and Widevine landing a similar deal with a Danish broadband provider ComX to launch IPTV services across Denmark.
Irdeto’s India deal was with Intermedia Cable Communication and Irdeto will secure the deployment of a digital cable TV network across the city of Pune using its next-generation Zeta Card smart cards with FlexiFlash technology.
The Widevine deal involves more than 100 TV channels and it will shortly expand to include HDTV service. Currently ComX reaches just 35,000 broadband subscribers.
Irdeto also this week agreed with RRD, a leading DVB-H solutions provider, that it would integrate its conditional access system with RRD’s DVB-H headend.