In June 2015 the organization claimed membership of 'more than 200 companies'. In March 2014, DLNA publicly released the VidiPath Guidelines, originally called 'DLNA CVP-2 Guidelines.' VidiPath enables consumers to view subscription TV content on a wide variety of devices including televisions, tablets, phones, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes (STBs), personal computers (PCs) and game consoles without any additional intermediate devices from the service provider.īy September 2014 over 25,000 device models had obtained 'DLNA Certified' status, indicated by a logo on their packaging and confirming their interoperability with other devices. to those of their customers) in such a manner that further, unauthorized, communication of the media is difficult.

The extra layer of digital rights management (DRM) security allows broadcast operators to communicate digital media to certain devices (e.g. ĭLNA worked with cable, satellite, and telecom service providers to provide link protection on each end of the data transfer. The guidelines incorporate several existing public standards, including Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for media management and device discovery and control, and widely used digital media formats and wired and wireless networking standards. The group published its first set of guidelines in June 2004.

DLNA certified devices include smartphones, tablets, PCs, TV sets and storage servers. Digital Living Network Alliance ( DLNA originally named Digital Home Working Group, DHWG) was founded by a group of PC and consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Intel in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspices of a certification standard.

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