Al Jazeera Sport broadcasts Euro Cup 2008 on HD
The Spanish company SIDSA provides the digital satellite platform with KeyFly Conditional Access System to protect its Euro Cup’s HD transmissions
The Global technology provider, SIDSA, is providing Al Jazeera Sport with KeyFly Conditional Access System to protect its High Definition (HD) content. It is also managing the viewers’ access to the different platform’s channels, with the main sport events (among them, the Spanish Football League, the Italian League, Euro Cup and Formula 1). The platform currently includes three standard channels and one HD channel.
Al Jazeera Sport, digital satellite platform that holds the broadcasting rights to Euro Cup 2008 for the Middle East and North of Africa, is broadcasting on HD all the matches through Al Jazeera Sport HD, using SIDSA’s KeyFly Conditional Access System.
Last year, SIDSA, in cooperation with other companies, carried out a pay DTT pilot in Spain , in the village of Alcazar de San Juan , offering pay-per-view football events and films, showing the technical viability of a platform based on Spanish technology and ready to be deployed.
Broadcaster’s bet on new digital TV Technologies and the availability of Premium content demand a content protection system that guarantees the business model. SIDSA’s KeyFlyXtreme is made up of the latest security and encryption techniques providing the highest level of protection at a minimum cost by using integrated circuits developed by SIDSA.
KeyFlyXtreme is fully compatible with LCD and plasma TV sets, as well as with the different type of (DTT, satellite and cable) set-top-boxes, both on standard definition or HD, including audio standards such as AC3.
The use of CAMs (Conditional Access Modules), inserted in TV sets and set-top-boxes makes it possible. SIDSA is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of CAM , providing the highest quality and functionality, suitable for both the professional and consumer’s markets. KeyFlyXtreme’s system may be integrated into the set-top-box using a SIDSA’s security chip.
About SIDSA
SIDSA is an audiovisual technology provider with active in semiconductor design, conditional access, digital headends and overall project management. SIDSA headquarters are in Madrid ( Spain ) and has offices in Dubai , Hong Kong, Moscow and San Francisco . In 2006 SIDSA investment from the Spanish private equity and venture capital groups: Inova Capital and Baring Group, has stimulated its international expansion and growth.
Extended company information
SIDSA’s digital TV headend portfolio includes contribution and distribution network solutions, broadcast-to-IPTV EtherTV gateways and terrestrial and mobile digital TV platforms, POLARplus, the most compact but fully featured headend product line in the market.
SIDSA complements its headend line with KeyFly 2.0, a smartcard-less conditional access system, specifically designed to offer the maximum level of security and flexibility in horizontal pay-TV markets, such as DTT.
SIDSA also offers ultra-secure, state-of-the-art CAMs (conditional access modules) for third party smartcard-based CA.
Within the semiconductors portfolio, SIDSA is introducing Enter e1, its new cutting edge DVB-H demodulator and application processor chipset, available as reference designs (hardware and software) targeted at mobile devices, consumer electronics, professional reception and micro gap-fillers markets. SIDSA also develops Intellectual Property for DVB-H and DVB-SH demodulators to the semiconductor industry.
SIDSA’s key differentiation is the valuable know-how and understanding of complete end-to-end Digital TV Systems. This allows the company to produce products that perfectly fit operators necessities and provide advanced overall project management services.
