Pay TV's Rapidly Changing Delivery Mechanisms Triggers Demand for Effective Video Content Protection

Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Global Content Protection Market, Forecast to 2021, finds market revenues will grow from nearly $1.7 billion in 2016 to just shy of $2 billion by 2021, at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 3.4 percent. The study examines current revenues and future growth potential of the content protection market in terms of four application segments: IPTV, cable, satellite, direct-to-home (DTH), and other service (including online services and pay DTT); in terms of protection type (CAS, DRM, and other);  and by region (North America,  Latin America,  Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific).

Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Global Content Protection Market, Forecast to 2021, finds market revenues will grow from nearly $1.7 billion in 2016 to just shy of $2 billion by 2021, at a compound annual rate (CAGR) of 3.4 percent. The study examines current revenues and future growth potential of the content protection market in terms of four application segments: IPTV, cable, satellite, direct-to-home (DTH), and other service (including online services and pay DTT); in terms of protection type (CAS, DRM, and other);  and by region (North America,  Latin America,  Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific).

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"The pay TV market has morphed from being a controlled and predictable broadcast ecosystem to an evolving morass of fragmentation across devices, platforms, standards, technologies and interoperability," said Streaming Media Practice Head Mukul Krishna. "Content protection vendors that can expand beyond client-based, hardware-dependent product lines to fully empower expanding pay TV content services will see success."

Expansion of OTT and TVE services will increase expenditure on DRM, multi-DRM, and secure player solutions, while upgrades to hybrid STBs combined with the imminent growth in 4K will drive demand for higher-end solutions.

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While several changes in technology and standards, including the exit of Flash and Smooth Streaming technologies, consolidation of HTML5/EME, and advent of common media application format (CMAF) to bridge HTTP live streaming (HLS) and dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH), will address fragmentation on the DRM side, issues remain in terms of support for legacy devices and varying options for packet-level encryption.

"Content protection vendors must become a one-stop shop, developing in-house competency and establishing partnerships and reseller arrangements, to enable secure cross-platform, multi-screen delivery for operators," summed up Krishna. "Truly agile vendors will think beyond pure security and seek to become comprehensive content protection and content monetization partners."

Global Content Protection Market, Forecast to 2021, is part of Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media Growth Partnership Service.

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