Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE LLC) is a consortium of major Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, network hardware vendors, systems integrators and Digital Rights Management (DRM) vendors. Announced in September 2008 by consortium President and Sony Pictures Entertainment CTO Mitch Singer, DECE was chartered to develop a set of standards for the digital distribution of premium Hollywood content. ^[1] The consortium intends to create a set of rules and a back-end system for management of those rules that will enable consumers to share purchased digital content between a domain of registered consumer electronics devices. ^[2]

DECE's proposed "digital locker" system is now known as UltraViolet.^[3][4]

On October 21, 2009, The Walt Disney Company announced their development of a competing service called Keychest.^[5]

Members

DECE members include:

Adobe Systems Akamai Technologies Alcatel Lucent Arxan Technologies Best Buy British Sky Broadcasting British Telecom CableLabs Catch Media Cineplex Entertainment Cisco Comcast Corporation Cox Communications CSG Systems' Content Direct Deluxe Digital

Dolby Laboratories DTS Fanhattan FilmFlex Fox Entertainment Group Fujitsu Hewlett Packard Huawei Technologies IBM Intel Irdeto LG Electronics Liberty Global Lionsgate LOVEFiLM

Marvell Semiconductor Microsoft Corporation MOD Systems Motorola Mobility Nagravision NBC Universal NDS Group Netflix Neustar Nokia PacketVideo Panasonic Paramount Pictures Royal Philips Electronics QuickPlay Media RIAA

Red Bee Media Rovi Saffron Digital Samsung Electronics SeaChange International Sonic Solutions Sony Corporation Switch Communications Technicolor Tesco Toshiba Verance Verimatrix VeriSign Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment Widevine Technologies Zoran

References

1. ^ Cliff Edwards (September 15, 2008). "Digital Content Wherever You Want It". Businessweek. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2008/tc20080912_471690.htm. 
2. ^ Shiels, Maggie (January 13, 2009). "Digital rights war looms ahead". BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7825428.stm. Retrieved May 1, 2010. 
3. ^ MG Siegler (Jul 20, 2010). "With DECE’s UltraViolet, We’re About To See Just How Powerful Apple Really Is". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/20/dece-ultraviolet-apple/. 
4. ^ Jacqui Cheng (2010-07-20). ""Universal DRM" renamed UltraViolet, beta starts this fall". Ars Technica. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2010/07/dece-moving-forward-with-beta-tests-but-still-sans-apple.ars. 
5. ^ Smith, Ethan (October 21, 2009), "Disney Touts a Way to Ditch the DVD", The Wall Street Journal, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703816204574485650026945222.html, retrieved November 24, 2009 ^{[dead link]}

External links

• decellc.com - redirects to the UltraViolet website