Industry Affiliations
NAGRA is actively involved in the creation and development of digital TV standards.
We continue to shape the future of digital television technologies through our participation in the following standards groups and industry organizations.
Industry Organizations
Association for Interactive Television
The Association for Interactive Television (AFDESI) in a non-profit organization for the purpose of promoting the interactive TV industry (on satellite, cable, terrestrial, ADSL, etc.). AFDESI’s mission is to help the ITV industry continue to grow and evolve by providing information about the industry, as well as working with governmental bodies for the benefit of its members. AFDESI facilitates the exchange of information.
European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services
AEPOC is the "Association Européenne pour la Protection des Œuvres et Services Cryptés" or the "European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services". AEPOC started its activities in 1995. Its membership consists of leading digital television and telecommunication companies including TV channels, conditional access providers, providers of transmission infrastructures and manufacturers of related hardware. AEPOC's goal is to eliminate the pirating of encrypted works and services and to encourage the development of the appropriate legal, operational and technological frameworks to increase the security and safeguarding of conditional access systems for Pay-TV, TV-based and IP services.
AllVid Tech Company Alliance
AllVid is a CableCARD replacement proposed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The AllVid hardware would act as a universal adapter for all types of pay TV content, delivered through a wide variety of means, including cable TV, satellite TV, VDSL, IPTV, and Internet TV.
American Cable Association
Based in Pittsburgh, the American Cable Association is a trade organization representing nearly 900 smaller and medium-sized, independent cable companies who provide broadband services for more than 7.6 million cable subscribers primarily located in rural and smaller suburban markets across America. Through active participation in the regulatory and legislative process in Washington, D.C., ACA's members work together to advance the interests of their customers and ensure the future competitiveness and viability of their business.
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The cable industry is the nation’s largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet access, serving more than 45 million customers, after investing more than $170 billion to build two-way interactive networks with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to more than 24 million American consumers.
CableLabs
Founded in 1988 by cable operating companies, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs®) is a non-profit research and development consortium that is dedicated to pursuing new cable telecommunications technologies and to helping its cable operator members integrate those technical advancements into their business objectives.
Centre for Content Promotion
The Centre for Content Promotion (CCP) is a consortium of industry stakeholders dedicated to digital and analogue content creation, technological standards and innovation, legitimate business models, and secure delivery.
As the primary service to all its members the CCP works to generate awareness and education to the government, industry and public. We organise training seminars, public relations campaigns, and cross-industry cooperation that engender respect for content creation and secure delivery.
Importantly, the CCP is an avenue to create an understanding and ecosystem between technology providers, service providers, content providers and regulators.
Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing
CTAM, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing, is a non-profit professional association, dedicated to helping the cable business grow. To that end, CTAM provides consumer research, an interactive executive innovation series, conferences, awards and the "CTAM SmartBrief" to its individual members. On behalf of 90 corporate members, the organization leads the Advanced Cable Solutions Consortium and Business Services Council, and facilitates national cooperative marketing efforts, including the Cable Mover Hotline® and Movies On Demand® initiatives.
Digital Interoperability Forum
The Digital Interoperability Forum (DIF) is a cross-sector forum of global players involved in the delivery of content across multiple platforms and devices. Its current members are: BSkyB, Canal+, Deutsche Telekom, Irdeto, Liberty Global, Microsoft, Nagravision, NDS, Pace, Sky Deutschland, Sky Italia, Viaccess and Zetacast.
Through DIF, these companies are working together to develop and promote policies and solutions that facilitate the delivery of content across different platforms and devices.
Digital Terrestrial Action Group
Digital Terrestrial Action Group (DigiTAG) aims to encourage and facilitate the implementation and introduction of digital terrestrial television services using the standards developed by Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB). DigiTAG has over 50 members from broadcasting, network operators, regulatory, and manufacturing organisations throughout Europe and beyond.
Forum TV mobile
The French Mobile TV consortium comprises 50 active companies today, covering the whole eco-system: wireless operators, terrestrial and satellite broadcasters, content providers, TV channels, device manufacturers, network operators, SW vendors, audience measurement institute, etc.
The forum was established in 2004 by the French Ministry of Industries. It has contributed a great deal to the development of Mobile TV in France.
National Associations of Broadcasters
The National Association of Broadcasters is a trade association that advocates on behalf of more than 8,300 free, local radio and television stations and also broadcast networks before Congress, the Federal Communications Commission and the Courts.
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers
The Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) is a non-profit professional association that provides technical leadership for the telecommunications industry and serves its members through professional development, standards, certification and information. SCTE currently has nearly14,000 members from the U.S. and 70 countries worldwide and offers a variety of programs and services for the industry’s educational benefit. A prime example is SCTE’s Smart Energy Management Initiative (SEMI), an unprecedented effort to help cable operators leverage financial and environmental advantages of implementing practical renewable energy strategies. SCTE has 68 chapters and meeting groups and more than 3,000 employees of the cable telecommunications industry hold SCTE technical certifications. SCTE is an ANSI-accredited standards development organization.
Standards Groups
ATIS
ATIS prioritizes the industry's most pressing, technical and operational issues, and creates interoperable, implementable, end to end solutions -- standards when the industry needs them and where they need them.
Advanced Television Systems Committee
The Advanced Television Systems Committee, Inc., is an international, non-profit organization developing voluntary standards for digital television. The ATSC member organizations represent the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries.
CASBAA
CASBAA is the Association for digital multichannel television, content, platforms, advertising and video delivery across Asia. The mission of CASBAA is to promote the growth of pay TV and video content through industry information, networking exchanges and events while promoting global best practices.
Consumer Electronics Association
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the consumer electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships.
ChinaDRM
The China DRM Forum was founded in 2004 by CCTV and Tsinghua University to develop national standards for the protection of digital media throughout the value chain. The forum focuses on the creation of technical standards and solutions, researches new application areas for DRM technology, and promotes the overall development of the DRM market in China. Currently there are 78 participants in China DRM Forum, including major Chinese content providers such as CCTV, SMG, and BTV, as well as leading technology companies such as TCL, Changhong, Panasonic, Philips, Sony, Nokia, and Intel.
CI Plus LPP
The CI Plus standard is an enhanced security system that allows operators and broadcasters to secure content on digital TV receivers via the Common Interface (CI) and Common Access Module (CAM). Its key benefit is enabling pay-TV operators to directly deliver high value content such as HD to retail receivers in a secure environment.
China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting
China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) is a mobile television and multimedia standard developed and specified in China by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT). It is based on the Satellite and Terrestrial Interactive Multiservice Infrastructure (STiMi), developed by TiMiTech, a company formed by the Chinese Academy of Broadcasting Science. Announced in October 2006, it has been described as being similar to Europe's DVB-SH standard for digital video broadcast from both satellites and terrestrial repeaters to handheld devices.
Digital Video Broadcasting
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of around 250 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services.
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies.
It is a not-for-profit organization with more than 700 ETSI member organizations drawn from 62 countries across 5 continents world-wide.
HbbTV
HbbTV (Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV) is a new industry standard providing an open and business neutral technology platform that seamlessly combines TV services delivered via broadcast with services delivered via broadband and also enables access to Internet only services for consumers using connected TVs and set-top boxes. The founding members of the HbbTV consortium together with a large group of supporters jointly developed the HbbTV specification to create a global standard for hybrid entertainment services.
MPEG-DASH
The DASH Promoters Group has been established by companies and organizations who are working together to promote the adoption of MPEG-DASH standard in the market. These companies believe that this open international standard for multimedia delivery over Internet will accelerate market growth and enable interoperability. It will eventually reduce the cost of delivery and benefit to the end user.
Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd
The Malaysian Technical Standards Forum Bhd (MTSFB) is a self-regulating body that work closely with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (SKMM) and aim at ensuring the industry expectations and consumer expectations meets. Its primary role is to develop Technical Standards and Industry Codes as well as to provide Industry Facilitation services with the objective of promoting competitiveness in the Malaysian communications industry. It is established under the auspices of SKMM. Industry interest in MTSFB is strong and a wide representation and participation is well participated by the telecommunications operators, broadcasters, industry associations, vendor, government agencies and institutions of higher learning through meetings/seminars/workshops, demos, exhibitions as well as field trials.
Open IPTV Forum
The Open IPTV Forum (OIPF) enables and accelerates creation of a mass market for IPTV by defining and publishing free-of-charge standards-based specifications for end-end IPTV services of the future.
Open Mobile Video Coalition
Representing over 900 TV stations across the country, the Open Mobile Video Coalition is a voluntary association of television broadcasters whose mission is to accelerate the development of mobile digital television in the United States. The OMVC is composed of 36 members that own and operate over 500 commercial television stations, as well as the Association of Public Television Stations, Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service, which represent an additional 360 public television stations. Membership in the OMVC is open to all U.S.-based television broadcasters.
SD Association
The SD Association is a global ecosystem of companies setting industry-leading memory card storage standards that simplify the use and extend the life of consumer electronics, including mobile phones, for millions of people every day.
Swiss Association for Standardization
The Swiss Association for Standardization (SNV) is the Swiss umbrella organization, established in 1919 as non-profit organization under private law. There are over 650 collective members from all branches of industry and the service sector. Other members of SNV include associations and institutions, as well as public companies and administrative authorities.
SNV is responsible for coordination, publication, distribution, registration and sale of standards and relevant documents, organizing meetings and seminars and representing sectoral and national interests in the field of standardization.
SNV is a member of ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and of CEN, the European Committee for Standardization.
UltraViolet
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) LLC is a cross-industry initiative developing the next generation digital media experience, UltraViolet.
UltraViolet is based on open, licensable specifications and is designed by DECE to create a viable, global digital marketplace. It is currently made up of more than 70 member companies. DECE’s new digital media specifications, logo program and interoperable digital rights locker will enable consumers to purchase digital video content from a choice of online retailers and play it on a variety of branded devices and platforms from different manufacturers.
