NEXGUARD  - DIGITAL CINEMA

With their ability to capture a high quality copies, today’s (SD or even HD) consumer camcorders can be used for making illegal movie copies, which can be distributed shortly after the movie release. In-theater camcording is the biggest source of illegal distribution of newly distributed movies. With the current digital transition, a fast increasing number of cinemas around the world are upgrading from 35mm film prints to digital projection, making digital tracing of illegal distribution now possible.

Solution

NexGuard - Digital Cinema offers unique image and audio forensic marking, enabling illegal copies found, to be traced back to the theatre where the camcording occurred. NexGuard - Digital Cinema is fully compliant with the specifications from the Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI), a joint venture of the major film studios, which made forensic marking of digital movies - including both image and sound – a mandatory requirement. Provided as an integral component of the Digital Cinema server system, NexGuard - Digital Cinema offers great advantages. The forensic mark is added to the content upon projection and includes a location identifier and a time stamp.

Benefits

• Illegal copies of film are traceable to a specific cinema, screen and date/time  of projection
• The watermark is imperceptible to the human eye and ear
• Approved by the major Hollywood studios, the NexGuard - Digital Cinema watermark is very robust and can survive to in-theatre camcording and subsequent compression to low bitrates
• Integrated into many leading 2K, 4K and 3D cinema server and projector brands
• Fully DCI compliant D-cinema version
• Video watermarking technology also available for E-cinema servers

To view the list of e-cinemas licensed to provide NexGuard video watermarking technology, please click here>> 



Read more about the technology on our audio and video watermarking page.