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2233 North Ontario Street
Suite 100
Burbank, CA 91504-4500
United States
Phone: 818-260-4966
Fax: 818-260-4935
Description:
Thomson Software and Technology Solutions is the leading provider of innovative solutions for forensic tracking and secure distribution of digital content, serving studios, post houses, broadcasters, network operators and content aggregators.Thomson offers powerful solutions to protect prerelease content, deter illicit redistribution of content across all release windows, monitor broadcast and online content, and bring cost-efficiency to online distribution. Movie and TV studios, post-production: Recognizing the vital necessity for content producers to protect the confidentiality of their content until release, solutions should uniquely mark and protect content, from production dailies and post-production, to movie theater release and delivery of masters to DVD replication plants.
Broadcasters, TV networks:
Utilizing solutions to secure the transfer, storage, and consultation of content and ensure confidentiality and integrity along workflows. Watermarking technology is available to automatically verify broadcast rights and program integrity upon airing.
Digital cinema and online VoD services, cable, satellite and IPTV operators:
Implementing forensic watermarking on a per-session basis deters illicit redistribution of content by consumers throughout all VoD and pay-TV release windows on national and international markets.
Discover the latest innovations across our product lines:
Security:
Forensic Watermarking and Content Protection -
NexGuard™ streamlines the secure storage, transfer and viewing of digital content using digital watermarking., encryption, tamper-resistant tokens and visible serialization. Applications include: Dailies, masters, screeners, Digital Cinema, DVD and VoD.
NexGuard™ Forensic Marking Solutions for Set-Top-Boxes -
This robust and invisible watermark, embedded instantly into set-top-box signals, deters illegal content redistribution. The watermarking can be applied to content delivered via IPTV and digital satellite, cable or terrestrial.
Processing:
Content Processing -
NexCode™ Content Authoring and Compression
New Blu-ray and HD DVD optical media formats require dedicated authoring and encoding tools in order to make the most of their HD capabilities. The NexCode set of tools draw on Thomson’s world-renowned expertise in video compression to provide precise, fully configurable and dynamic high-end authoring and compression in optimized hardware configurations.
Distribution:
Content Distribution -
NexCast™ content delivery solution allows online video aggregators and vendors to optimize distribution costs and quality of service by transparently balancing reliable content delivery networks and effective peer-to-peer topology. This copyright-friendly solution has been designed to naturally integrate watermarking and fingerprinting security features.
Monitoring:
Broadcast and Web Monitoring -
Nextracker™ solutions leverage both watermarking and fingerprinting technologies to provide content tracking and monitoring, as well as automated, actionable reporting. Applications include: verification of program integrity, confirmation of aired commercials and content filtering.
Nextracker™ web monitoring identifies, filters and tracks copyrighted content available over the web, including user-generated content portals and unregulated peer-to-peer networks.
Patented innovations for targeted uses:
Thomson relies upon dedicated research teams to invent, develop, test and implement best-in-class technologies.
Digital Watermarking:
NexGurard watermarking technology embeds unique identification information into video and audio streams. This information can then be recovered either to pinpoint the source of a leak or to track the distribution paths of these streams.
Workflow-centric rights management:
This set of technologies pushes back the frontiers in A/V content security by mixing AES compatible encryption algorithms, tamper-resistant hardware tokens, advanced mutual authentication protocols and dynamic management of keys revocation.
High Definition Encoding algorithms:
Thomson’s leading expertise in compression technologies led to the invention of top-end MPEG-4 AVC encoding software for Blu-ray and HD DVD applications.
Digital Fingerprinting:
Each piece of audiovisual content is unique and can be identified by a digital fingerprint, similar to DNA. This fingerprint is resistant to multifarious modifications, degradations and attacks.
Peer-to-Peer distribution and intelligent routing:
This software platform adds availability, cost-efficiency and scalability to a high-level of security resources management by intelligently combining content delivery network schemes and P2P strengths.
Maximize you Investment:
Preserve the full value of copyrighted content
- Prevent pre-release leaks
- Secure content distribution across all release windows
- Track the source of the leaks if necessary
Analyze content use and adapt copyright friendly business models
- Track the dissemination of licensed content
- Analyze content viewing trends
- Filter out illegally shared content
Optimize the efficiency trade-off throughout all workflows
- Preserve the excellence of the original quality
- Seamlessly integrate new content processing solutions
- Diminish content handling and delivery costs
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