New Strategies at IBC: Thinking outside of the video frame

We had got used to something like 12 years of Verimatrix being at IBC and talking about little else other than content protection, but as a margin squeeze has started to be apparent in DRM, Verimatrix has talked more often about new strategies and typically uses IBC to roll them out. We spoke this year to CEO Tom Munro last week at IBC and asked how Verimatrix would survive in an era where video can be delivered over a browser, which only offers a hardware root of trust only to the DRM of the browser supplier? Surprisingly he was very bullish and preferred not to talk about his “resilient” DRM revenues (“most video still goes to set tops you know”),…