Digital entertainment content ecosystem
Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE), is a consortium of around 85 companies based in Pleasanton and a Limited Liability Company (LLC) under the laws of the US state of Delaware in the United States . DECE deals with digital rights management (DRM) and the licensing and use of video content on various platforms and devices, e.g. through back-end systems for the management of these rights.
history
Affiliated with numerous Hollywood film, consumer electronics, network hosting providers, retailers, Internet systems and security software companies, DECE was founded in September 2008 by Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) to set a new standard for digital content as an alternative to iTunes from Apple.
In 2008, the President of DECE declared that the consortium would advocate "interoperability of devices and websites", as well as fair usage rights, which should allow customers to copy content and burn or copy purchased content to storage media. In addition, a comprehensive alternative to iTunes is to be created.
At the beginning of 2009, Microsoft also supported the standardization of a video container format as part of the DECE.
In autumn 2011, UltraViolet and Digital UltraViolet, a cloud-based storage and playback of films on various end devices after registration, was established (digital video rights locker). In November 2013 it was also introduced in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Chair
Mitch Singer is President of DECE, with Sony Pictures Entertainment until 2011.
Member companies
The member companies of the consortium include Adobe, Alcatel-Lucent, Ascent Media Group, Best Buy, Blueprint Digital, CableLabs, Catch Media, Cisco, Comcast, Cox Communications, Deluxe Digital, DivX, Dolby Laboratories, DTS, ExtendMedia, Fox Entertainment Group, HP, Intel, Irdeto, Liberty Global, Lionsgate, Microsoft, MOD Systems, Motorola, Movie Labs, Nagravision, NBC Universal, Netflix, Neustar, Nokia, Panasonic, Paramount Pictures, Philips, RIAA, Rovi, Roxio CinemaNow, Samsung Electronics , Secure Path, Sony, SwitchNAP, Tesco, Thomson, Toshiba, Time Warner Inc., Verimatrix, VeriSign, Warner Bros Entertainment, Widevine Technologies Inc., Zoran.
The US companies Apple, Google and the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group do not belong to the consortium.
Web links
- myuv.com - Brief information about DECE on the UltraViolet website
- decellc.com - Former DECE website