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Taipei, Taiwan and Eindhoven, The Netherlands – January 06, 2016 – NexGuard, a Civolution company and the leading provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, partnered with ALi to announce the integration of NexGuard forensic watermarking in the lineup of ALi set-top box chipsets. The collaboration provides compliance with the MovieLabs security specifications and enables protection of high value content with forensic watermarking in addition to CAS and DRM systems.

For premium content delivered to the set-top box, NexGuard Technology enables each device to embed a unique, invisible identifier or watermark to any video being played. The watermark remains with the content, regardless of how it might be transcoded, resized, downscaled or otherwise altered for distribution. Robust content protection thereby carries on even after playback begins by the implementation of a means to trace illicit re-distribution back to a specific user account.

 
“NexGuard forensic watermarking is designed to meet the full array of evolving security challenges that digital media industries face,” said Jean-Philippe Plantevin, SVP Products and Solutions, NexGuard. “This integration provides ALi and its customers with MovieLabs forensic watermarking compliance and the only realistic defence against illicit re-distribution of linear content such as sport events and the illicit file-sharing of premium on-demand content, the greatest security threats facing the content industry today.”

“As a global leader in STB technology, ALi makes every effort to ensure our chipset offerings meet the Pay-TV ecosystem’s most demanding security requirements,” said Daniel Huang, CEO of ALi Corporation. “Adding to a host of robust protection mechanisms with the NexGuard watermarking solution under TEE already enabled on our chipsets, ALi’s latest UHD solutions integrating hardwired NexGuard technology provide a powerful arsenal for rights owners and service providers in the battle against piracy of valuable entertainment content.”

Visitors to CES 2016 are welcome to ALi’s suite, East Tower #579 at Westgate Hotel, for more information on NexGuard-enabled ALi STB chipsets.

About NexGuard
NexGuard (www.nexguard.com), a Civolution company, provides the most widely deployed forensic watermarking solutions in the movie and entertainment industry across the globe. Civolution is the leading provider of technology and solutions to identify, manage and monetize media content. The company offers an extensive portfolio of cutting edge digital watermarking and fingerprinting technologies and applications. Follow us on Twitter: @NexGuard and LinkedIn.

Taiwan and Belgium – January 06, 2016 – Today Zappware and ALi announced a strategic partnership in which Zappware solution is pre-integrated onto ALi’s platform. The partnership will enable Pay-TV providers and telecom operators to deliver feature-rich IPTV or hybrid services with highly responsive and personalized user experience.

The joint solution supports full HD1080P60, MVC video decoding and multi-stream, as well as the award-winning Zappware user interface. The solution additionally enables remote control of the set-top box through smart devices including smartphones and smartwatches.

“We are thrilled to have Zappware’s leading-edge digital TV technology ported on ALi’s reference platform and also future coming ALi chipsets,” said Tony Chang, Chief Operating Officer of ALi Corporation. “With our lineup of chipsets continuingly evolving to integrate forward-looking technologies, ALi has accumulated hundreds of Pay-TV operator partners worldwide. We are now joining forces with Zappware so that service providers can benefit from a high-performing future-proof platform ensuring a quick time to market and end-users can have access to revolutionary digital TV experiences.”

Zappware is around since 2001 and has a sound experience in digital TV deployments around the world with over 25 service providers running their solution serving millions of end-users.

Patrick Vos, CEO of Zappware elaborates, “Zappware integrates best of breed technology together with partners to guarantee a robust and responsive user experience. This is exactly why I am so excited about this partnership with ALi. The integration of our user interface onto the ALi hybrid chipset will bring the user experience that will trigger end-users to use the video solution more, increase video ARPU, create stickiness and turn viewers into consumers.”

Entertainment service providers will be able to discover the integrated solution during live demonstrations at the CES show in ALi’s suite, East Tower #579 at Westgate Hotel, on January 6-9, 2016. Visitors to CES will see first-hand how the integrated Zappware and ALi solution is leveraging operators, service providers and ODM capabilities to maximize their opportunities.

About Zappware
Zappware, founded in 2001, combines creativity and technology into powerful digital TV solutions for Entertainment Service Providers. Its proven Zappware user interface currently serves millions of devices around the world, and provides an intuitive and personalized multi-screen TV experience across set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets and PCs. It includes a unified Service Delivery System that allows the operator to monetize the service on cable, satellite, terrestrial, IPTV, OTT and hybrid networks.