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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.

Taipei – September 09, 2015 – ALi Corporation, a leading Set-Top Box (STB) chipset solution provider, announced today it is collaborating with Adrenio to deploy new high definition set-top boxes in Switzerland. Adrenio is a professional digital TV solution provider and system integrator serving about 200 independent cable operators in Switzerland. The STB deployment will enable Swiss operators to offer cost effective HD STBs to end users. 

The Adrenio set-top box is enabled with Conax Cardless conditional access based on ALi secure system-on-chip solution to provide robust protection for media content and operator revenue. Manufactured by KAON Media, a top R&D and manufacturing company in Korea focusing on developing digital connectivity devices, the modern and compact set-top box delivers design simplicity and cost reduction.

The Adrenio offering features an STB radio function enabling users to continue listening to radio without connecting a TV/screen to the STB. 

"With the ALi SoC certified for Conax Cardless CAS, Adrenio is able to offer a very competitive High Definition STB to its clients," says Thomas Muehlehaler, CEO, Adrenio. "And with the Adrenio “radio” DVB function, we ensure continuous “radio” reception beyond the analogue FM switch-off via the same device, without the need of switching on the TV set."

“ALi has accumulated years of experience in developing pay-TV solutions targeting specific markets,” says Tony Chang, General Manager of ALi’s Broadcast and Broadband Media Business Unit. “The Adrenio STB with ALi SoC offers a competitive solution combining cost efficiency, advanced cardless security, and rich media features. Again it shows ALi’s capabilities to collaborate with industry partners to deliver dedicated pay-TV solutions for different markets.”

Demonstration of the Adrenio STB is available at the ALi suite, 2F #BM24, Hall 1, IBC 2015, from September 11 to 15 in Amsterdam.

About Adrenio
Adrenio GmbH is a professional digital TV system integrator operating in the Swiss market supporting all systems both large and small. Our end-to-end solutions guarantee full service to the operator. For more information, please visitwww.adrenio.com.

Taipei – September 07, 2015 – Today ADB and ALi announce a strategic partnership. ADB is expanding its partner network with the addition of ALi Corporation, the leading set-top box (STB) chipset provider. The partnership, which will see ADB’s Personal TV solution pre-integrated into ALi’s platform, will enable service providers and STB makers to tap into ADB and ALi technologies and deliver first-class, compelling TV experiences.

ALi is a leading innovator and developer in the STB system-on-chip (SoC) markets. The ALi M3733 platform is the company’s most powerful chipsets and by integrating ADB’s Personal TV solution, service providers are presented with an end-to-end TV solution with quick time to market. The joint solution will support full HD1080P60, MVC video decoding and multi-stream, as well as features such as USB media, VOD and YouTube.

“ADB is a leading provider of TV solutions and we are thrilled to have their first class technology ported on ALi’s reference platform. The collaboration will extend in 2016 on future coming ALi chipsets,” said Tony Chang, General Manager of ALi’s Broadcast and Broadband Media Business Unit. “ALi’s leading-edge STB technology combined with ADB’s smart and flexible software delivers a complete solution for service providers to enrich their streaming and VOD services in addition to hybrid varieties.”

ADB's Personal TV solution is an innovative and feature rich end-to-end offering that enables operators and service providers to meet the challenges of evolving media consumption and consumer behavior by delivering video and other contents seamlessly to pay-TV platforms and OTT deployments. At the heart of Personal TV is ADB’s award winning video software application Graphyne TV, which supports video delivery for linear TV, DVR, on-demand and OTT TV. Graphyne TV unifies access of all types of contents to deliver a consistent and seamless experience for TVs, tablets, smartphones and gateways.

“Our partner network is an innovative way to select, procure and deploy devices and we are happy to have added ALi to our ever-growing network of partners,” said Peter Balchin, CEO, ADB. “Working with chipset providers gives our clients more flexibility, delivering the best fit, timeframe and price and our partnership with ALi is a prime example of how we are helping operators and service providers remain competitive and thrive in today’s increasingly competitive TV landscape.”

Demonstration will be available at the IBC Show in the ADB Booth (stand #4.B52) and ALi Suite (Suite #BM24; Hall1, 2F). Visitors to IBC will be able to see first-hand how ADB and ALi solutions are helping operators, service providers and ODM maximize the opportunities of the new Connected Age.

About ADB
ADB is Connecting Lives and Connecting Worlds with innovative solutions for personal and business TV and Internet of Things (IOT). We understand how the Connected Age is changing consumer consumption and driving demand for powerful, flexible and cost effective connectivity and services. 

Our Connected Solutions bring together our proven expertise and 20 years of award-winning industry firsts, enabling our customer's to build successful businesses and deliver the connected experiences consumers crave. We know what success looks like because we are empowering some of the world’s leading content distributors, pay TV and broadband operators including A1 Telekom Austria, Border States Electronic, Canal Digital, Cox, Graybar, NC+, Swisscom, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telenet, Time Warner and Vodafone.

ADB has a passionate and dedicated team of over 550 people, including a 350 strong engineering team. The company is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland and has offices throughout Europe, Asia and North America.