Acknowledge the ‘appification of TV’ and confront the technology challenges

All Pay TV operators need to acknowledge the ‘appification of TV’ and make their content bouquets available on multiscreen devices and possibly onboard OTT apps to their STBs. Einar Vagmo, Director of Product Management, Multiscreen at Conax, outlines some of the technical challenges, from supporting multiple OS’s and DRMs to guaranteeing the content security implementations on CE devices to creating a security firewall between TV operations and third-party apps on a set-top box.