castLabs and Mubi Enable a New Student Membership With Incredible Hand-Picked Films

By PRNewswire On Dec 1, 2020

castLabs, secure digital video delivery solutions provider, together with MUBI, a curated film streaming service, enable a new membership for students studying anything and anywhere at a much lower price.

MUBI has been using castLabs’ DRMtoday and PRESTOplay player SDKs since 2016, providing a secure video platform to over 10 million members worldwide. MUBI now offers a special tier membership for all students, regardless of what they are studying and where they live. This membership allows students to stream or download an ever-changing collection of hand-picked films, from new directors to award-winners across the world, at a much lower price of £/€5.99 per month.

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“castLabs is a trusted and long-time partner of MUBI’s. They are a pioneer in this space and their specialist technology offers us maximum security, enabling us to bring our incredible selection of hand-picked films to members around the world, across multiple platforms and devices, in the securest way possible,” Federico Keen, CTO at MUBI.

In order to protect valuable video assets and deliver amazing playback experience MUBI has been continuously using castLabs’ solutions. PRESTOplay SDK provides players across multiple screens such as Android devices and Android TV, iOS devices and Apple TV, HTML5 platforms such as browsers, Windows/macOS desktops, game consoles, and TVs. It is also pre-integrated with DRMtoday, an extensive cloud digital rights management (DRM) service to fulfill video service performance and scaling.

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“We are always striving to make video services more secure and accessible for viewers. Working together with MUBI, we provide DRM-protected content via our players to users in over 190 countries and give this opportunity to students worldwide at a more affordable price, which is especially helpful during the global pandemic,” Michael Stattmann, Founder and CEO at castLabs.

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