14 DAY TRIAL // Have you been waiting long for the day when you will be able to burn the movies you buy and download online to DVD and increase your collection? Well? your wait might be close to an end. The Qflix system, developed over a period of three years by Sonic Solutions Inc. represents both a technology and the adjacent licensing that will enable home users to burn movies acquired online to a DVD support with play everywhere capabilities.
Sonic Solutions revealed that the Qflix system will deliver:
- Copy protection for home-burned DVDs - Maximum DVD player compatibility - Able to support multiple content protection solutions: CSS, Macrovision RipGuard, SecureBurn, X-Protect, CPRM, AACS, ACP - Forensic watermarking - Multiple DRMs & encryption: WMDRM, mpDRM, Helix, Coral, DiVX, AES, Verimatrix - Multiple content formats: ISO images, WMV, MPEG2, H264
Additionally, Sonic Solutions promised that the Qflix system will deliver a "Compelling alternative to online piracy" with increased compatibility and access to high-quality content, and the fact that the DVDs with the burned movies will play in virtually all DVD players available on the market. Sonic Solutions will enable Movie Studios to better manage the distribution economics, to add content protection via anti-ripping and watermarking, while opening the door for contextual advertising and behavioral targeting.
Via Qflix, studios and retailers will be able to add a digital lock (content scrambling system) while distributing movies over the Internet or through retail kiosks. "We are pleased and encouraged to see efforts like Sonic's creation of Qflix that addresses the need for industry standard protection," stated Chris Cookson, chief technology officer at Warner Bros.