What is Viaccess, Mediaguard, Irdeto, Cryptoworks, etc?

Sadoun · #1 (**permalink**) 10-12-2002, 05:30 PM

They are all systems of encoding:

- Viaccess was developed by France Telecom and is used in Europe by many diffusers (TPS, NTV, HRT, SRG-ssr inter alia).

- Mediaguard was developed by the SECA and is used in Europe by the Canal+ group.

- Irdeto was developed by Nethold is used by DF1, Telepiu, Stream, Nova.

- Cryptoworks was developed by Philips and is used by Wizja, Deutsche Telekom, British Telecom, Viacom.

- Betacrypt was developed by Beta DIGITAL

- Nagravision was developed by Nagra-Kudelski (Swiss) and is used by Via DIGITAL.

- Conax was developed by Telenor and is used by Canal DIGITAL on the Thor satellites.

- Powervu was developed by Scientific-Atlanta and is used for the transmissions professionels (Retevision, Bloomberg, Discovery, AFRTS).

QEST23 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-05-2003, 08:04 PM

So ,now we know which one is what , So were do I get them???? :shock:

m4pp1n6 · #3 (**permalink**) 12-22-2003, 12:55 PM

Yeah, where do we get these?
With TV Polonia and EuroNews both on Nagravision, I'm particularly interested in that...

dtsexpert · #4 (**permalink**) 12-22-2003, 01:37 PM

1. In order to receive these paid channels, you need to have a receiver which accepts CAM (smart card).
2. Contact the sat providers to see if they allow you to use any third-party receiver. Some of them require subcribers to buy their receiver.
Michael

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Originally Posted by m4pp1n6

Yeah, where do we get these?
With TV Polonia and EuroNews both on Nagravision, I'm particularly interested in that...