The Ultra HD Forum has issued its latest guidelines, “UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3” which includes a new chapter on forensic watermarking. The new guidelines are as a result of a collaboration between leading watermarking technologies providers. The new security guidelines are endorsed by all participating watermark vendors (ContentArmor, Irdeto, MarkAny, NexGuard, Verimatrix).
The guidelines develop the MovieLabs specification for enhanced content protection and have been vetted or reviewed by various organisations such as MovieLabs, the Digital Watermarking Alliance, and the Streaming Video Alliance. The Guidelines define different integration approaches at a high level, to facilitate watermarking in ecosystems including CDNs and video encoders. The Ultra HD Forum has now over 60 members including Qualcomm, that recently joined.
Laurent Piron of Nagra, who chairs the UHD Forum Security Workgroup, said that the implementation of forensic watermarking will enable the secure delivery of much more premium UHD content at a time when sales of UHD-enabled devices are at an all-time high.
