Company: KVHI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001007587-25-000003
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Company: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 value-added services are subscription-based. 

Our KVH Media Group, which is based in the United Kingdom, distributes commercially licensed entertainment, including movies, television programming, news, music and other crew-focused content to customers in the commercial maritime sector. Sales from KVH Media Group are included as part of content service sales. For movie and television content, we are an approved distributor of licensed content for certain Hollywood, Bollywood, and independent studios worldwide. Our "news from home" digital newspaper service includes more than 100 daily newspapers in more than 20 languages. The digital content can be printed onboard or viewed on a TV (via a set-top box), tablet, smartphone, or laptop.

We offer a content subscription service, exclusively for the commercial maritime sector, called KVH Link. This service 

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can be delivered either over the air, via the recipient vessel’s satellite communications system, or via encrypted USB drives. Once received onboard, the content is stored on a dedicated KVH Link linkHUB server, which incorporates studio-approved DRM (Digital Rights Management) software. Copyright law requires permission from the rights holder for exhibitions of copyrighted films, television and news content on a commercial ship. KVH Media Group holds the rights to allow non-theatrical exhibitions of this content aboard commercial ships for viewing by crew. 

Customers that subscribe to one of our entertainment packages generally receive a variety of movie and television content that is cached locally onboard. We transmit local "news from home" and international news segments in a variety of languages on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, a library of movies plus daily sports, news clips and special programming such as the highlights of sporting events.

Value-added Services

We recognize that our customers desire more than just a simple pipe for data and connectivity. We design and offer an array of value-added services that both increase the capabilities of our customers’ systems as well as generate additional recurring revenue for KVH. Among these value-added services are an enterprise-grade Managed Firewall powered by industry leader Fortinet, a cloud email system for commercial fleets and seafarers, crew Internet support, real-time vessel tracking, our KVH Link content service, and CommBox Edge. The majority of these services are available via third-party services and networks we offer as part of our KVH ONE multi-orbit, multi-channel network, including Starlink, OneWeb, and 5G/cellular.

Maritime Products

In the marine market, we currently offer a range of communications and mobile satellite TV products. As noted above, we are