Proposal for terrestrial DTV copy protection and encryption by 5 ...
Proposal for terrestrial DTV copy protection and encryption by 5 Hollywood studios has been delivered to Digital Transmission Licensing Authority (DTLA), Pres. Michael Ayers told us (CD July 23 p6, July 19 p3). Memo of Understanding among Disney, MGM,…
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Paramount, 20th Century Fox and Universal will embrace DTLA’s Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) for cable and satellite DTV, as Sony and Warner have, and proposed digital watermark for terrestrial broadcasts, Disney Exec. Vp-Govt. Relations Preston Padden told us last week. Ayers said DTLA had no comment on studios’ proposal yet, pending review by member companies. Meanwhile, he offered additional details on how hard- disc PVRs would function under DTCP’s “Copy Never” mode for time- sensitive pay-per-view or video-on-demand programming. Content owner would allow PVR to capture program and pause it during viewing for “rolling windows” at least 90 min. after each increment is received, Ayers said. For example, if 2-hour movie is paused 15 min. into viewing, increment of program beginning at 15th minute would be accessible for at least next 90 min. Same 90-min. viewing window would apply to all subsequent pauses, he told us. Studios are free to offer less restrictive windows, but 90 min. is minimum viewing period, Ayers said. After increments are viewed, they no longer are accessible from PVR. Pause increments needn’t be time-based but could be counted according to frames, megabytes transmitted, etc., Ayers told us.