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PlayReady Product Documentation

The public PlayReady Product Documentation describes how PlayReady works end to end, and helps PlayReady users make the right choices when selecting their content protection technology or when developing PlayReady servers and clients.
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Microsoft PlayReady Content Protection Technology

White Paper: Overview
Microsoft PlayReady is a comprehensive content delivery and management solution for entertainment products and services across all platforms and types of devices. Developed by Microsoft, PlayReady is the result of over 14 years and over $2 billion in R&D. Thanks to a full IP patent portfolio, proven robustness, and backing by a dedicated breach response team, PlayReady has become the leading DRM system for protecting media content. Microsoft's ongoing commitment to secure, user-friendly protection of content and cross-platform capabilities inherently positions Microsoft PlayReady as a key enabler for the media and entertainment industry.
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Developing Microsoft PlayReady Clients

White Paper: Overview
In this white paper we'll provide a brief overview of the PlayReady product suite and we'll discuss PlayReady client technologies in terms of key concepts, platform compatibility and support for related technologies, and tools and options for developing, testing, and distributing PlayReady clients. To enable end-to-end content protection across the media ecosystem, the PlayReady product suite includes both client and server technologies. It also includes software development kits (SDKs) and a device porting kit for implementing those technologies on various platforms.
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Protecting Premium Live TV Services with Microsoft PlayReady

White Paper: Overview
Microsoft added and extended several PlayReady features to provide a highly scalable solution for Live TV services, enabling networks to provide OTT services for their channels while retaining the principles and requirements of a managed network. PlayReady Live TV Services supports integration with the wider ecosystem and existing infrastructure, including encoders and packagers, key management services, and advertising systems.
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A New Architecture for Multiscreen Distribution, Rights Management and Monetization (by Envivio)

Service providers are seeing a dramatic growth of broadband video delivery over the Internet, some of the challenges have been addressed by the use of Adaptive Bit Rate technologies, for which MPEG-DASH is the emerging industry standard. This white paper (developed by Envivio with contribution from BroadPeak and Microsoft PlayReady) discusses how to address some remaining challenges such as: how to scale the video distribution efficiently, how to manage efficient content protection with Microsoft PlayReady and how to monetize the service.
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Content Decryption Module Interface Specification

The W3C HTML working group is developing media extension specifications for HTML5 to enable the delivery of commercial video to consumers over the Web. One of these is the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) specification. The current specification describes an open interface which may be used to implement an EME-compliant Content Decryption Module (CDM) within a User-agent, providing access to a platform DRM component which supports the defined Content Decryption Module interface (CDMi).
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Interoperability, Digital Rights Management and the Web

White Paper: Overview
We are on the verge of an important inflection point for the Web. In the next few years commercial web video delivery utilizing new, international standards (DASH Media Ecosystem) will become commonplace. These standards will enable cross-platform, interoperable media applications and will transform the media entertainment industry, delight consumers and expand the nature of the Web.
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Microsoft PlayReady Wins Frost & Sullivan's Global Content Protection Enabling Technology Award

Report: Frost & Sullivan's research and findings
Its cross functional and cross platform capabilities, along with its ongoing commitment to secure, user-friendly protection of content, inherently positions Microsoft PlayReady as a key enabler for the industry.
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