Overview
The paper first introduces key
requirements and challenges for delivering
premium cable content on customer owned
and managed devices in the home. The paper
then provides the details of a multi-industry
effort in Digital Living Network Alliance for
defining the Commercial Video Profile-2
specifications that enable distribution of
premium content over home networks to
various CE devices such as TVs, tablets,
mobile phones, game consoles, HDMI sticks,
and PCs. Benefits of the DLNA CVP-2
specifications to consumers, CE manufactures
and service providers are discussed. The
paper also presents an overview of the
architecture and components of open source
implementations of the DLNA CVP-2 Server
and Client specifications that are aligned with
the Reference Device Kit.
