DTLA: Networking Content in Your Digital Home

In 1999, DTLA began licensing a content protection technology that also ensures consumers' reasonable and customary right to make personal use copies and to enjoy that content digitally networked throughout the home. Digital Transmission Content Protection ("DTCP") has been widely adopted across the globe in consumer electronics products from set top boxes and digital TVs to Blu-Ray and DVD recorders; in voluntary standards groups; by a spectrum of cable, satellite, and media services; and over a variety of wireless and wired interfaces.

Latest News

• Friday, April 02, 2010 - DTLA announces Specification update

  DTLA releases changes to the Specification and to the Adopter Agreement Compliance Rules to accommodate interoperability approval from AACS.

• Monday, March 01, 2010 - Testing Extension

  DTLA announces a license "Extension" to enable DTCP compliance testing (e.g., for DLNA and other purposes) using content other than "Commercial Entertainment Content." This is a unilateral statement from DTLA. Adopters that comply with the terms of the Extension do not have to sign any additional documentation.

• Tuesday, December 01, 2009 - DTCP in the UK

  The attached Notice and Revised IP Statement explain the Encoding Rules for DTCP for the forthcoming UK High Definition Digital Terrestrial Transmission system. Neither these Encoding Rules nor the revised IP Statement are currently effective. Encoding of DTCP for such transmissions is not permitted until further notice by DTLA, following final regulatory approval of the UK HD DTT proposed content management and compliance regime that includes the use of DTCP.

• Tuesday, February 20, 2007 - New Adopter Agreement

  The June 2007 version of the Adopter Agreement (and associated Addendum) is available here for immediate execution.

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