If you are bugged of seeing error messages when trying to view your favourite videos despite being an authorized user and for which you've spent hours downloading, then this will certainly catch your attention. Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby Laboratories, today just unveiled its new S-VIEW SV510 Secure Video Key to extend playback of S-VIEW secure content to laptops and desktop PCs.

This small, lightweight device that users simply plug into the USB 2.0 port of their laptop or desktop computer, provides a new solution to this age-old problem with the S-VIEW SV510, a USB key that enables the playback of protected digital content. Once authorized users have installed the accompanying software and registered the device, they can play back the S-VIEW secure content from a DVD or download it from the Internet. Authorization to play S-VIEW secure content is carried with the DVD image file ensuring secure delivery.

With the watermarking technology, which contains date and time of playback as well as specific playback the video content is decrypted and watermarked using the same. Users have the luxury of setting up unique six- to twelve-character access codes for their devices, so if an S-VIEW SV510 is ever lost or stolen with the S-VIEW secure content, access by any other individual is denied.

The S-VIEW SV510 currently compatible with Windows PC laptops and desktop computers and a Mac version is expected to be available October 2006. The S-VIEW SV510 lists at $600 per device and requires a management fee of $20 per month.

Via Ubergizmo