Digital Living Network Alliance
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| Established | June 2003 |
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| Type | Trade organization |
| Headquarters | Lake Oswego, Oregon US |
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200 companies |
| Website | dlna |
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) (originally named Digital Home Working Group [DHWG]) was founded by a group of consumer electronics companies in June 2003 (with Sony in the lead role) to develop and promote a set of interoperability guidelines for sharing digital media among multimedia devices under the auspice of a certification standard. DLNA works with cable, satellite, and telecom service providers to provide link protection on each end of the data transfer. The extra layer of digital rights management (DRM) security allows broadcast operators to enable consumers to share their content on multimedia devices without the risk of piracy. As of June 2015[update] the organization claims membership of "more than 200 companies".
The group published its first set of guidelines in June 2004. 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.
In March 2014, DLNA publicly released the VidiPath Guidelines, originally called "DLNA CVP-2 Guidelines." VidiPath is a set of guidelines developed by DLNA that 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.
As of October 2015, over 25,000 different device models have obtained "DLNA Certified" status, indicated by a logo on their packaging and confirming their interoperability with other devices. It was estimated that by 2017 over 6 billion DLNA-certified devices, from digital cameras to game consoles and TVs, would be installed in users' homes.
On January 5, 2017, DLNA announced on its web site that "the organization has fulfilled its mission and will dissolve as a non-profit trade association." Its certification program will be conducted by SpireSpark International of Portland, Oregon.
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