Connecting Digital Content to Consumers™

Widevine provides digital media solutions for the delivery of digital entertainment to any device. Hundreds of service providers use Widevine’s multiplatform, multiformat DRM and video optimization solutions. Millions of consumers enjoy digital entertainment enabled by Widevine on retail consumer electronics devices and legacy STBs from all major consumer brands. With over 55 patents Widevine is an industry leader and innovator of content protection and video optimization technologies.

Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Constellation Ventures, Cisco Systems, Charter Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP), Pacesetter Capital Group, The Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

What Others Think

Here’s what a few of our customers and industry pundits have said about Widevine:

“Widevine offers the latest in DRM and video optimization for delivering premium, high-quality movies and entertainment to the home via internet-connected PCs and CE devices. Never has an online video service been so easy to use or so closely emulate a DVD-like experience. Thanks to our collaboration with companies like Widevine, consumers will be able to easily navigate first-run movies and television shows for rent or purchase from the comfort of their living room or anywhere else in their digital ecosystem.”

—Jesse Keane CTO and VP, Premium Content Group, Sonic Solutions; Sonic Solution owns CinemaNow, a leader in online movie and TV service delivery

“Widevine is the enabler we’ve been looking for to extend TV services to mobile entertainment platforms. Their innovation and leadership continues to help us remain ahead of competition. Their innovation and leadership continues to help us remain ahead of competition with a solution that would keep Chunghwa Telecom subscribers satisfied in the living room and on the road.”

—William Liu, General Manager of Synchronous Communications; Synchronous is a long standing provider of IPTV DRM technology to Chunghwa Telecom, one of the largest IPTV service operators globally and the exclusive distributor of the iPhone in Taiwan and a Widevine customer.

“TEO switched to Widevine because of its excellent relationships with major European and Hollywood content owners and for its turnkey content protection solutions, which enable us to extend a fully differentiated interactive IPTV service to our customers. Our primary goal is to provide high quality services to our customers in a competitive market previously dominated by cable television and have the capabilities to expand our services to multiple screens.”

—Darius Didžgalvis, CTO of TEO; TEO is the largest broadband Internet access and voice telephony services operator in Lithuania.