Eliminating the barriers to video content distribution

There are a number of barriers involved in entry into the digital content distribution market for video contents, including video encoding for various platforms, copyright protection measures, and selection of reliable payment methods.

SkillUpJapan's DR-PROVIDER is a one-stop service that helps to eliminate these barriers. It offers page creation and operation functions, as well as an ASP (application service provider) for converting your video contents into an encoded format suited to the users' environment (e.g., for Internet video distribution services and mobile phone carriers). At the same time, you can use peripheral services that are essential to digital content distribution, such as payment systems and distribution infrastructures.

Japan has one of the best Internet infrastructures in the world with more than 25 million households using broabdband services. Taking advantage of this, there are some companies already offering live high-definition video streaming and video on demand in the country. Japanese people are in general very receptive to foreign visual contents and as such Japan has become one of the most attractive markets for Hollywood and South Korean Soap Operas. If you have good-quality video contents to offer and do not know how to approach the Japanese market why do not you contact us and give Internet-based video delivery a chance?. Bandwidth is not a limitation in Japan anymore.

DRM can also be customized to meet your needs

Using the management screen provided by SkillUpJapan, video content holders can now encode video contents and specify distribution destinations using simple, integrated operations, even if they have no specialized knowledge in this field. DR-PROVIDER is compatible with multiple DRM technologies, including WMV, Flash, and Quicktime, and so can be operated flexibly using the DRM system specified by the content holder.

DR-PROVIDER Example of implementation

Japan's largest video distribution siteSkyPerfecTV Video

Japan's largest video distribution site

More than 60 content holder companies participating!

The latest information and video contents are being updated every day. This video portal offers a wide range of contents to meet your viewing needs, from program promotion contents to paid video contents.

System Infrastructure

SkillUpJapan will assist you with applications, copyright management, networks, payment services, system operations, and user support. System configurations incorporate on-demand live streaming infrastructures that can accommodate high volume content management and large-scale distribution capable of handling access by 1,000 users simultaneously. Our copyright protection system was one of the first of its kind to introduce Windows Media Rights Manager 10; it is compatible with Windows VISTA(TM), and is used by a wide range of content holders.

Construction of operation systems

The operation systems provided by SkillUpJapan can be used to encode hundreds of broadcast materials per month for Internet distribution, to maximize the security of personal information arising through responses to daily inquiries, and to provide rich video contents to users quickly and easily.

Collaborations with various types of portal sites

"SkyPerfecTV Video" × "YouTube"

Sky Perfect Communications Inc., a broadcasting company with an overwhelming volume of contents, has been promoting collaborations with various Internet portals. On June 19, 2007, it established its first partnership in Japan, creating a partner page with "YouTube," the world's largest video posting and sharing site. The new site has demonstrated its strong appeal to users by securing the number one position in successive weekly and monthly rankings since the first week that the site was opened. SkillUpJapan is responsible for content management operations, and for deleting any illegal content.

Comments from the staff

One of the greatest concerns of content holders in the context of Internet distribution is copyright protection. We apply DRM (Digital Rights Management) to all video content, and offered compatibility with Windows VISTA"! at an early stage. We paid a great deal of attention to design, so that we could provide an easy-to-understand design and present lots of video content on the top page in Adobe Flash format. Our goal is to create entertainment sites that are attractive and convenient for both content holders and users, sites that offer both free and paid video content where users can post their own videos as well.
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