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Information technology research from IBM
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| Meet the challenge of managing multimedia content
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Managing multimedia content is a costly and time-consuming process. Categorizing video and audio files to enable search and retrieval demands extensive human resources. Storing massive digital files requires storage systems that provide enormous capacity. In addition, content needs to be protected from theft and illegal reproduction. IBM Research can help with information technology research solutions.
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| Benefit from IBM's research capabilities
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IBM’s leadership in information technology research provides advanced thinking on access to next-generation devices like mobile phones, set top boxes, retail kiosks, game platforms and new home gateways.
- IBM Research is the world's largest information technology research organization, with more than 3,400 scientists and engineers at eight labs in six countries.
- In addition to five Nobel prizes, IBM researchers have been recognized with six U.S. National Medals of Technology, five National Medals of Science and 19 memberships in the National Academy of Sciences.
- IBM has produced more research breakthroughs than any other company in the IT industry.
- IBM maintains more than two dozen development labs around the world, employing 115,000 technologists.
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| Realize the potential of our research projects
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IBM Research is involved in developing technologies that provide many benefits to media companies. The projects we are working on can help these companies:
- Protect intellectual property using broadcast encryption and IBM's xCP Cluster Protocol.
- Link several devices with very different capabilities—including set-top boxes, network storage appliances, wireless audio/video players, PCs and portable devices—to form a trusted domain in which content can move freely, while remaining protected outside the domain.
- Enable the flow of content protected by Content Protection for Removable Media (CPRM) technologies with the Digital Media Transaction Service from IBM.
- Content can be more securely downloaded and burnt onto DVDs and SD cards.
- When a consumer enters a transaction for the encrypted content, it is made available to them.
- Gain a centralized video file system with the IBM General Parallel File System™.
- A centralized system helps eliminate the need to physically transfer large video files between applications.
- Content providers can take advantage of collaborative editing, allowing several editors to work on the same multimedia file at the same time.
- Store a plethora of massive multimedia files using Linear Tape Open (LTO) tape cartridges from IBM.
- Leverage the computer industry's oldest and most affordable data storage technologies that have the potential to provide the increased capacity media and entertainment companies need.
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| Digital video storage system benefits Fox Broadcasting
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IBM Research has worked with many media and entertainment companies to implement innovative projects. Building on IBM's expertise in broadcast technology and business consulting for the media and entertainment industry, Fox Broadcasting Company worked with IBM and IBM Business Partner Sirius Computer Solutions to design and implement a digital video storage system that allows FOX to manage, store and retrieve broadcast content faster and easier than with conventional production systems and traditional broadcast videotape infrastructure.
The FOX digital archive solution is among the first to integrate with the high definition ASI (asynchronous serial interface) standard, which is a digital video broadcasting (DVB) standard-based technology used widely in broadcasting for transporting high definition streams. The solution will enable content from FOX’s most valuable properties to be available on demand for repurposing and further distribution.
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| Build revenues and lower costs
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Some of the projects that IBM Research is developing for the media and entertainment industry can help provide financial benefits, including increased revenue and cost savings.
- The Digital Media Transaction Service can help content providers generate additional revenues by including encrypted supplementary content on media such as DVDs, which can be purchased by the customer later.
- Protecting content more effectively with the xCP Cluster Protocol can help lead to significant savings by preventing theft of intellectual property.
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Questions about this solution? Contact an IBM media and entertainment specialist.
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