Mobile TV Content Protection by Texas Instruments, Viaccess and Orange

Texas Instruments announced that the company is in collaboration with Orange and Viaccess, to provide content and access protection for broadcast TV on a mobile device.

Viaccess provides it’s Conditional Access, the secure environment for Orange to deploy protected mobile TV content over the wireless network. It is powered by TI's OMAP processor with its integrated M-Shield system-level security technology. TI's OMAP processor offers the multimedia and security acceleration to unleash the potential of Viaccess’ Conditional Access solution. TI's M-Shield security technology, integrated on the OMAP processor, will provide the high security levels needed to protect both the execution of the conditional access application and the system-level handset security of the decrypted mobile TV content.

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The term of Conditional Access is commonly used in relation to digital television systems. Conditional Access is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to the content.

TI's M-Shield mobile security technology solution provides the highest level of terminal and content security in the industry today, and addresses the standards requirements for content protection. M-Shield technology intimately interleaves hardware and software technologies at the system level to provide the highest level of security and is the key security element of TI's OMAP platform and OMAP-Vox processors.

Loic Hamon, TI, said:
M-Shield security framework provides the robust, flexible, system-level security solution required to safely ensure the content protection necessary to mobile TV contents.

Viaccess solution gives mobile handsets the capability to support multiple distribution models for mobile television, including TV channel bouquet subscription, pay-per-minute, pay-per-view and a la carte subscription.

Mobile TV Conditional Access will be demonstrated by TI on their booth at 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona from Feb. 12-15: visible on the TI booth (8A84) on Feb. 14 and 15. The demo will show mobile TV content protected by Conditional Access from Viaccess on an Orange smartphone powered by TI's OMAP processor.

Source: Texas Instruments -  Mobile TV content protection