Engaging a PlayReady® Service Provider
If you are a company that would like to enjoy and use the benefits of the Microsoft PlayReady Server technology, but would like to minimize your development and hosting costs, working directly with a PlayReady Service Provider may be an excellent fit for your needs. Microsoft provides a list of PlayReady Service partners who offer content access technology solutions to develop, implement, and host your PlayReady service.
The benefits of working directly with a PlayReady Service Provider include:
| • | The ability to outsource (to companies who understand the complexities of content-access technology) the development and deployment of the content access and protection part of the service |
| • | No PlayReady agreements to sign with Microsoft, eliminating the need to report and pay server royalties to Microsoft |
| • | No $30,000 upfront license fee paid to Microsoft |
PlayReady Service Providers:
If you are interested in outsourcing the development and hosting of your branded service, please contact one of the PlayReady Service Providers listed below for more information:
Acetrax AG
Acetrax runs a European VOD service, working with premium brands to offer premium movies to their customers. Acetrax is an independent, privately owned company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, and holds contracts with major Hollywood Studios as well as independent and local providers.
Website: http://www.acetrax.com
Contact email: info@acetrax.com
Contact phone: +41 43 204 2080
Axinom
Axinom helps its customers run best-of-class Live and VoD services and deliver protected content to a diverse set of devices. Axinom's flagship DRM product SilverHD is an SaaS/On-Premise offering designed to enable service providers and publishers to monetize and protect assets with PlayReady DRM.
Website: http://www.axinom.com/PlayReady
Contact email: sales@axinom.com
Contact phone: +49 911 801 090
BuyDRM
BuyDRM was founded in 2001 to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding pay media industry. BuyDRM's platform KeyOS is offered as a service and a solution, representing extensive research, development and practical commercial use in deploying digital rights management technology.
Website: http://www.buydrm.com
Contact email: sales@buydrm.com
Contact phone: (+1) 512 377 1340
CDNetworks
CDNetworks, a global, full-service content delivery network (CDN), provides a comprehensive suite of technology for video streaming, large-volume-files downloads, image caching, website acceleration, application acceleration, business analytics and monetization.
Website: http://www.cdnetworks.com
Contact email: info@cdnetworks.com
Contact phone: (+1) 408 969 1000
CSG Systems, Inc.
CSG's Content Direct solution empowers content creators, aggregators and distributors to easily and effectively market, monetize and manage content and customers. Content Direct is offered as either a set of software services or as an integrated solution.
Website: http://www.csgsystems.com/contentdirect
Contact email: jim_benz@csgsystems.com
Contact phone: (+1) 312 660 5667
DigiEyeZ A/S
DigiEyeZ is a market and innovation leader in the digital asset management (DAM) industry in Denmark. Their solutions are based on the DigiZuite™ DAM application platform. This flexible platform provides customers with the ability to customize, then deploy, DAM systems that support a wide variety of uses.
Website: http://www.digieyez.com/
Contact email: info@digieyez.com
Contact phone: (+45) 70 22 20 95
Entriq
Entriq develops and manages an open, standards-based pay/premium media infrastructure to help the world's leading content owners and content rights holders reduce the cost and complexity of building and running their own pay-media and ad-supported platforms.
Website: http://www.entriq.com/solutions.php
Contact email: sales@entriq.com
Contact phone: (+1) 760 795 2600
ExtendMedia, Corp.
ExtendMedia provides OpenCASE, a multi-screen media monetization platform that uses PlayReady technology to enable telecommunications operators and other media distributors to create, manage, publish, and securely deliver digital content across broadband, TV and mobile devices.
Website: http://www.extend.com
Contact email: sales@extend.com
Contact phone: (+1) 617 332 5700
EZDRM
Founded in 2003, EZDRM has been a leader in digital rights management solutions for content owners. The EZDRM hosted DRM solution helps cut cost and infrastructure required for business. EZDRM has evolved with Microsoft DRM technologies from WMDRM to Silverlight DRM powered by PlayReady.
Website: http://www.ezdrm.com
Contact email: Sales@ezdrm.com
Contact phone: (+1) 888 636 9723
fabbricadigitale s.r.l
fabbricadigitale realizes innovative infrastructures and software applications, always aiming at technological perfection, in order to meet the developments of the national and international market. The corporate strategy is to provide technologically advanced and future-oriented solutions.
Website: http://www.fabbricadigitale.it
Contact email: info@fabbricadigitale.it
Contact phone: (+39) 0375284600
Ipercast Network
Ipercast is a European firm that manages the delivery of secure multimedia content on the Internet and on mobile. Ipercast has its own private infrastructure. Its network consists of more than 20 000 km of optical fiber to offer Meta-CDN and VoD services for media and ISP.
Website: http://www.ipercast.net/
Contact email: playready@ipercast.net
Contact phone: (+33) 1 72 77 70 70
iStreamPlanet
iStreamPlanet provides digital media strategy, managed webcasting services, and Rich Internet Applications that enable enterprises and media/entertainment content owners to securely distribute and monetize their media assets across multiple platforms using Silverlight and PlayReady technologies.
Website: http://www.istreamplanet.com/About.aspx
Contact email: jhopkins@istreamplanet.com
Contact phone: (+1) 702 492 5923
Stream UK
Founded in 2001, Stream UK was an early implementer of the Windows Media™ Rights Manager software. Since then, Stream UK has continued to invest in the technology and expertise required to ensure your content is both available to those you intend and secure from those you don't.
Website: http://www.streamuk.com
Contact email: playready@streamuk.com
Contact phone: +44 (0)207 419 2028
Twofour Digital Limited
Twofour is an international media company, with head offices in the UK, which has extensive experience in DRM, originally with Windows Media Rights Management and now with PlayReady. Their DRM services are complimented by SaaS online video platform MEDIAFREEDOM, which fully supports Smooth Streaming and Silverlight.
Website: http://www.twofourdigital.com
Contact email: info@twofourdigital.com
Contact phone: +44 207 438 1800
Vetrya S.p.A.
Vetrya realizes innovative infrastructures and software applications, always aiming at technological perfection, in order to meet the developments of the national and international market. The corporate strategy is to provide technologically advanced and future-oriented solutions.
Website: http://www.vetrya.it
Contact email: info@vetrya.it
Contact phone: (+39) 0763 393818
Xstream Media Solutions
Xstream offers complete broadcast solutions for the dissemination of audio and video via the Internet, mobile and TV-platforms. Xstream's media asset management software, MediaMaker, is a focus area serving Xstream customers with a complete management platform for Internet-TV and VOD services.
Website: http://www.xstream.dk
Contact email: sales@xstream.dk
Contact phone: (+45) 70 27 17 78
Yacast
Founded in April 2000, Yacast has become a leader in media streaming and monitoring services. The company is operating one of the largest CDN platforms in Europe. A complete range of live and on-demand services is provided using state of the art IP and mobile technologies.
Website: http://www.yacastmedia.net
Contact email: contact@yacastmedia.net
Contact phone: (+33) 1 56 28 59 00
The above list of companies is provided for reference purposes only and the information contained in this list was provided to Microsoft by the respective companies. Microsoft makes no representations or warranties, either expressed, implied or statutory, regarding any company presented in this list or its products or services. The inclusion of a company does not imply endorsement or recommendation by Microsoft of the company or its products or services. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
Interested in becoming a PlayReady Service Provider?
If you are interested in becoming a PlayReady Service Provider, please contact CAPLT@microsoft.com for more information. One of our Business Development Managers will help explain the criteria and the application process.