Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE LLC) is a consortium of major Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, network hardware vendors, systems integrators and Digital Rights Management (DRM) vendors. Announced in September 2008 by consortium President and Sony Pictures Entertainment CTO Mitch Singer, DECE was chartered to develop a set of standards for the digital distribution of premium Hollywood content.[1] The consortium intends to create a set of rules and a back-end system for management of those rules that will enable consumers to share purchased digital content between a domain of registered consumer electronics devices.[2]
Disney, Google and Apple are not members. Disney recently launched its own Digital Locker called Disney Movies Anywhere, powered by Keychest. Disney Movies Anywhere currently connects to four providers; iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, and Vudu.
DECE's "digital locker" system is called UltraViolet.[3][4]
Members
DECE members include:
- Adobe Systems
- Akamai Technologies
- Alcatel Lucent
- Arxan Technologies
- Best Buy
- BluFocus Inc.
- British Sky Broadcasting
- British Telecom
- castLabs
- Catch Media
- Cineplex Entertainment
- CinemaNow
- Cisco
- Comcast Corporation
- Cox Communications
- CSG Systems' Content Direct
- Deluxe Digital
- Dolby Laboratories
- DTS (sound system)
- FandangoNow
- FilmFlex
- Fox Entertainment Group
- Fujitsu
- Hewlett Packard
- Huawei Technologies
- IBM
- Intel
- Kaleidescape
- Lionsgate
- Motorola Mobility
- Nagravision
- NBC Universal
- NDS Group
- Neustar
- Nokia
- PacketVideo
- Panasonic
- Paramount Pictures
- Royal Philips Electronics
- QuickPlay Media
- RIAA
- Red Bee Media
- Rovi Corporation
- Saffron Digital
- Samsung Electronics
- SeaChange International
- Sonic Solutions
- Sony Corporation
- Switch Communications
- TalkTalk
- Technicolor
- Testronic Labs
- Toggle
- Toshiba
- Verance
- Verimatrix
- VeriSign Inc.
- Verizon Communications, Inc.
- Vubiquity
- Vudu
- Warner Bros. Entertainment
- Widevine Technologies
References
- ↑ Cliff Edwards (September 15, 2008). "Digital Content Wherever You Want It". Businessweek.
- ↑ Shiels, Maggie (January 13, 2009). "Digital rights war looms ahead". BBC News. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
- ↑ MG Siegler (Jul 20, 2010). "With DECE's UltraViolet, We're About To See Just How Powerful Apple Really Is". TechCrunch.
- ↑ Jacqui Cheng (2010-07-20). ""Universal DRM" renamed UltraViolet, beta starts this fall". Ars Technica.
External links
- decellc.com - redirects to the UltraViolet website