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By Staff -- Multichannel News, 12/17/2006 7:00:00 PM
Philips Service Scans for Pirated Web Video
Los Angeles — Philips Content Identification, a unit of Royal Philips Electronics, last week announced MediaHedge, a service designed to automatically flag copyrighted videos that have been uploaded to a video-sharing or peer-to-peer network.
MediaHedge matches the “fingerprint” of user-uploaded video snippets with a master database of video provided by content owners. The videos can then either be blocked or tracked, depending on the copyright owner’s wishes. According to Philips, the system can identify video even when it is severely degraded and can match very short video clips anywhere within original video material. The company didn’t announce any customers for the service, nor did it name any content owners that were participating in MediaHedge.
Harmonic Wraps Entone VOD Deal
Sunnyvale, Calif. — Harmonic, a provider of video-processing equipment, completed the acquisition of Entone Technologies’ video-on-demand networking-software business on Dec. 8.
In August, Harmonic announced plans to acquire the Entone unit for about $45 million in cash and stock. The companies originally expected the deal to close in October. Entone plans to focus on its home-gateway line of business.
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