CYBERLINK IS SHOWING off a bunch of new things at CeBIT, all based around playing one sort of video or other. Some were about playing on new hardware, others about playing new DRM infected media types.
By far the most interesting demos were hooked up to a poor Dell laptop. One port had a prototype DIBcom DVB receiver, the others were stuffed with mobile devices. The DIBcom was demoing mobile DTV solutions on the aforementioned laptop.
You can see it between the laptop and the white Gigabyte phone, it does not have a casing so it looks ugly, but it works. You can switch between DVB-H and T-DMB on the fly, assuming you have access to both standards.
Slightly cooler was pumping it to mobile devices. The phones can either directly receive and view the broadcasts with Cyberlink software or have it downloaded to them for later viewing. The Gigabyte phone with the big antenna was demoing the live reception, the black Compal was showing the file based viewing.
The software is there, it works on both Wince 6.0 DRM edition and Linux. It will ship as soon as the DIBcom hardware ships, given the state of things, that should not be long.
Cyberlink and NDS VideoGuard
Next was a cool idea from NDS called VideoGuard. You plug in the key which decrypts a PPV or premium video stream. As soon as you unplug the key, the video stops. Plug it back in, it plays. It doesn't sound like much, but it is probably the least evil form of DRM I have seen at the show.
The last one that I saw was called Cyberlink Live, a location shifting software app for TV streaming. You have the software running where you want it, IE home, and when you are are the road, it streams your media to you. Want to catch the latest soap opera? Not a problem, you can watch it live, change channels, and be a couch potato from anywhere you have a net connection.
There were also a bunch of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD demos, it all works, and updates to many pieces of their software. The three above were the wow things though, the rest is the usual better, faster and smaller. Quite a nice showing.
By far the most interesting demos were hooked up to a poor Dell laptop. One port had a prototype DIBcom DVB receiver, the others were stuffed with mobile devices. The DIBcom was demoing mobile DTV solutions on the aforementioned laptop.
You can see it between the laptop and the white Gigabyte phone, it does not have a casing so it looks ugly, but it works. You can switch between DVB-H and T-DMB on the fly, assuming you have access to both standards.
Slightly cooler was pumping it to mobile devices. The phones can either directly receive and view the broadcasts with Cyberlink software or have it downloaded to them for later viewing. The Gigabyte phone with the big antenna was demoing the live reception, the black Compal was showing the file based viewing.
The software is there, it works on both Wince 6.0 DRM edition and Linux. It will ship as soon as the DIBcom hardware ships, given the state of things, that should not be long.
Cyberlink and NDS VideoGuard
Next was a cool idea from NDS called VideoGuard. You plug in the key which decrypts a PPV or premium video stream. As soon as you unplug the key, the video stops. Plug it back in, it plays. It doesn't sound like much, but it is probably the least evil form of DRM I have seen at the show.
The last one that I saw was called Cyberlink Live, a location shifting software app for TV streaming. You have the software running where you want it, IE home, and when you are are the road, it streams your media to you. Want to catch the latest soap opera? Not a problem, you can watch it live, change channels, and be a couch potato from anywhere you have a net connection.
There were also a bunch of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD demos, it all works, and updates to many pieces of their software. The three above were the wow things though, the rest is the usual better, faster and smaller. Quite a nice showing.
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