Industry Standards
High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) technologies protect high-value digital motion pictures, television pro HDCP has broad industry support from the major players in the digital entertainment value chain, including major motion picture studios, semiconductor companies, consumer electronics manufacturers and computer companies. Nearly 400 leading companies license the technology, and nearly 1 billion HDPC keys have been issued to date.
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Today, in every continent, one in ten people around the world use Wi-Fi at home, at work, in countless ways. Wi-Fi adoption continues to grow, and common goals still bind together more than 500 Wi-Fi Alliance member companies from dozens of countries. The original goal of the visionary leaders that formed the Wi-Fi Alliance in 1999 has been realized, and yet the Wi-Fi Alliance is not done. The innovation and thought leadership of the Wi-Fi Alliance continues to drive new Wi-Fi applications and products, and it continues to enrich our lives.
The SD Association is a global ecosystem of companies setting industry-leading memory card standards that simplify the use and extend the life of consumer electronics, including mobile phones, for millions of people every day. The Association does not manufacture, market or sell any product; it exists to create standards and then promote the adoption, advancement and use of SD standards used by competing product manufacturers that make interoperable memory cards and devices. Today, the SD Association has approximately 1,000 members involved in the design and development of SD standards. As the industry standard, SD standards are used by hundreds of brands across dozens of product categories, such as digital cameras, televisions, personal navigation devices, mobile phones, smart phones, automobiles, computers of all types and video cameras, to name just a few. There are thousands of device models using SD standards today.
DTLA is the Digital Transmission Licensing Administrator, LLC. DTLA was founded by five companies - Intel Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., Panasonic Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Toshiba Corporation - who are among the world's prominent innovators in the fields of consumer video, computing, and home networking technologies. The main purpose of DTLA is to administer the licensing of the Specification for the DTCP content protection technology. Under the aegis of the inter-industry Copy Protection Technical Working Group, in 1997, representatives of the motion picture, consumer electronics and information technology industries undertook an evaluation of technologies to perpetuate within the home environment protections applied to content when delivered to the home (such as encryption of prerecorded media or conditional access cable or satellite delivery systems). As a result of that evaluation project, in 1998, the five Founders (also known as "5C") together created the Digital Transmission Content Protection technology "DTCP" – a simple and inexpensive method, affording a high degree of protection, to protect copyrighted commercial entertainment content transmitted over high-speed bi-directional digital interfaces.
LNA is a collaborative trade organization established by Sony in June 2003, that is responsible for defining interoperability guidelines to enable sharing of digital media between consumer devices such as computers, printers, cameras, cell phones, and other multimedia devices. These guidelines are built upon existing public standards, but the guidelines themselves are private (available for a fee). These guidelines specify a set of restricted ways of using the standards in order to achieve interoperability. DLNA uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management, discovery and control.UPnP defines the types of device that DLNA supports and the mechanisms for accessing media over a network. The DLNA guidelines then apply a layer of restrictions over the types of media file format, encodings and resolutions that a device must support.
GlobalPlatform is a cross industry, not-for-profit association which identifies, develops and publishes specifications which facilitate the secure and interoperable deployment and management of multiple embedded applications on secure chip technology. Its proven technical specifications are regarded as the international industry standard for building a trusted end-to-end solution which serves multiple actors and supports several business models. lobalPlatform applies the term 'secure chip' in reference to embedded technologies used in various chips – such as smart cards, application processors, SD cards, USB tokens and secure elements – for protecting assets (data, keys and applications) from physical or software attacks.