New experience of IPTV

CI+ in IP networks

IP-QAM is the world's first subscriber device enabling CI+ implementation for IPTV networks.

Crypton solves the problem of using CI+ modules in TVs when receiving a signal from the Internet network very simply, with the IP-QAM set-top box.

It was this link that was not enough to connect the two great achievements of our time — the Internet and DVB. The Internet knows how to deliver content, but does not protect against copying and replication in any way. DVB CI+ descrambling technology is the only thing you can trust for copyright transmissions.

Indeed, everything is put in its logical place. IP transport is the most versatile and convenient, with the ability to control traffic and control access. But IP set-top boxes to a TV, in principle, cannot have a CI+ interface.

But all TVs have a CI+, and in order to use it, you need to send a signal to the antenna input. There will be no loss of quality since the signal is digital. It may seem surprising, but the signal from the IP input of Smart TV cannot be passed through the CI+ slot. No bridge between IP and DVB.

• HD/UHD production is very expensive
• Industry is preparing for HDR UHD
• Video piracy is slowing down the progress
• CI+ is minimizing content leakage
• DTH operators select CI+ for safety

HD/UHD quality

The use of only IP-QAM Box allows to open full potential of the 4K, 8K, HD / UHD TV.

IP-QAM performs the highest possible quality of any TV

Usual set-top box limits the quality at its level.

When buying a TV, you pay special attention to the technical specifications, watch reviews, read customer feedbacks. You want to get from your TV's maximum functionality. But then you connect a cheap set-top box to your TV.

Signal processing is in the set-top box. Market demands for ultra-low price set-top boxes and some connectors and functionality are excluded from it, even if it cannot be excluded.

For the signal processing is used the cheapest simplified chipset and codecs. Meantime powerful TV processor is idle. The most expensive TV is used as a simple monitor and shows what was given by the cheapest set-top box.

The idea that the digital signal will pass through the usual set-top box without loss is wrong.

Losses occur when decoding the compressed video and forming a dynamic picture in desired resolution and complex transitions.

Users of IP-QAM will immediately see the significant improvement of image quality in comparison to usual set-top boxes.

IP-QAM does not render the signal, the TV receives the original digital signal and not a single bit is changed. The signal is rendered by the TV modules, and the cost of those modules is ten times bigger than that of the set-top box.

TV set uses only patented technologies, implements all the research and corporate achievements. Only the combination of these achievements and technologies allows opening full potential of the TV.

So let your TV show its full potential!

Why buy an expensive TV set and not allow it to operate at full strength, connecting set-top box?

We tested IP-QAM working with a signal on 37Mbps

This is more than the standard of Ultra High Definition Television (eng. Ultra High Definition Television, UHDTV)! 37Mbps Is the limit for modulation QAM64.

For higher bitrate, you need to use QAM256 modulation. As IP-QAM has automatic software update it's enough to put on your server another version of firmware and all IP-QAMs will be updated. It has no limits in bitrate! We put QAM64 because all TV-sets we were guided by the guaranteed presence of a demodulator in all.

Finally, two important notes

1. Whatever TV you have, you will never get the highest quality and prime content with a TV set-top box, since the CI + interface in set-top boxes is, in principle, not possible. Don't expect that you'll get something valuable in the unencrypted broadcasting.
2. The cooler your TV, the greater the gap in quality with the set-top box. A 4K ULTRA HD TV with the patented H.265 codec will age before you can purchase a TV box of its level. And do not expect that it will be a cheap one. But if you really got it somewhere, see paragraph 1

Interactive TV

Support for Catch-UP capabilities: program selection by time, rewind, pause and other functions. Watch your favorite shows at any convenient time!

IP-QAM supports the management of watching TV from a mobile device (Second Screen). This interaction between smartphone and TV allows you to enjoy a new experience of watching interactive TV programs. You will also be able to use Multiscreen technology for continuous viewing of programs on all TV-sets at your home.

Channels available in TimeShift mode allow you to start TV programs recorded in the video archive from any time, turn on the rewind mode and pause.

Access protection

IP-QAM has a protected area in the program memory. Unlike conventional set-top boxes and Smart TV, cloning of their programs is impossible. Authorization is more secure than bank credit cards.

Access protection, content protection

It is a thankless task to assemble smart TVs into one network operating according to the same rules. It is impossible to establish authorization and establish a single query structure on all smart TVs. The following reasons:

• Too much variety of TVs
• Each manufacturer considers themself a trendsetter. No common standard
• At least a year passes from the development of a new TV to its appearance on the shelves. Program changes are on hold
• Millions of TVs have already been purchased
• Few TV owners will agree to change the branded TV program to a program of unknown origin due to the possibility of turning the TV into an expensive brick without a guarantee
• The price of Smart is not available to everyone

Therefore, to build a network, you need to choose another option as a basis.

Conventional media consoles are also easy to modify in software. But the software on them is easily cloned. All the set-top boxes are conveyor clones.

And what about the IP-QAM set-top box?

It has open-source software modules. This means that the rules for networking can be easily developed by enthusiasts and applied on the network. Any whim! The most pleasant of them is its own authorization rules! Content protection can be multi-layered — from the simplest to the most reliable. And the IP-QAM set-top box has a protected memory area that contains a unique coded number.

Therefore, it is impossible to clone them. Authorization reliability is better than that of a bank card.

IP-QAM set-top box is ideal to prevent copying of content

Reliable authentication is better than that of a credit card. Those who steal content, will not be able to shift the responsibility to someone else. The authorized connection is not difficult to tag on the server-side. Thus, all the stolen programs on the Internet will be marked and the connection immediately will be broken.

Multiscreen

Using mobile gadgets, you can pause the viewing of a program on one device and continue it on another, be it a TV or a smartphone.

You can use Multiscreen technology to continuously watch programs on all TVs and gadgets in your home.

If you have found an interesting program on your smartphone or tablet and would like to continue watching on a large TV screen, then you will not have any problems with the IP-QAM set-top box. It is its purpose.

TV Set unification

With IP-QAM, you can watch IPTV on any TV that receives digital TV signal.

The IP-QAM set-top box is a tiny DVB-C modulator with IP input. For maximum compatibility with all TVs, the modulation type is QAM-64 with a carrier frequency of 62 MHz. The feature is that only one program is transmitted.

The set-top box works with any TV capable of receiving digital TV signal. Setting up the TV receiver is carried out in accordance with the user manual.

IP-QAM box can be adapted to work with any remote. When setting up, you press the remote control button and the set-top box remembers the command code.

Open-source software

A built-in scripting programming language uses open API and extends the capabilities of the device to adapt to the needs of the network provider.

The device supports the function of automatic software update from the server of the IPTV network provider or the manufacturer's website.

IP Traffic saving

IP-QAM Box is powered from the USB port of the TV. When you turn off the TV, you disable IP-QAM as well.

The usual set-top box continues to transmit even when the TV is turned off. If you watched the recorded TV show or movie, it will continue reading from disk space. If you watched paid content, it continues to be consumed.

This will not happen with the IP-QAM set-top box because it is powered by the USB connector of the TV.

Nowadays interactive TV is not very common, not everyone understands the scale of the problem. The volume of services provided to offline TVs can exceed the volume of services provided to people several times. It is not a trifle! Considering the scale, it turns to be a serious problem!

Note that ISP does not have the ability to break a lot of connections after some time. Previously you could reset the connection every half-hour when television was over the air or cable, and IPTV was as a bonus. Moreover, the disconnection should be done so that the set-top box without human intervention could not reconnect. Now the connection reset violates a contract for the provision of IPTV services. If the provider can not guarantee the continuous broadcasting during the Presidents New Year's speech or the final goal in the Football World Cup, it is obvious that they're not in place.