Future of Digital Entertainment at Risk Due to DRM Challenges, iSuppli Warns

Future of Digital Entertainment at Risk Due to DRM Challenges, iSuppli Warns

iSuppli Releases DRM Whitepaper

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Hundreds of billions of dollars and the future of dozens of promising digital entertainment markets are at risk unless concerned companies and industries can resolve their differences over Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Conditional Access (CA), iSuppli Corp. is warning.

DRM and CA reside at the convergence point where content providers, service carriers and platform makers are aligning to develop digital entertainment. They play a key role in the development and growth of digital content for both home-entertainment and mobile-multimedia platforms, impacting areas including digital music, broadband video, mobile TV, high-definition DVD, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and home networking. Because of this, DRM and CA will determine the future of the digital-content business, depending upon their degree of success.

However, disagreements between the concerned companies and industries over how DRM and CA should be implemented are hampering the growth of these markets, according to Mark Kirstein, vice president of multimedia content and services for iSuppli.

"When it comes to DRM and CA, conflicting interests abound, both among industries and among companies," Kirstein observed. "The diversity of interests in DRM has resulted in a competitive deadlock regarding interoperability."

Overall, the market for DRM/CA in networked and mobile applications amounted to nearly $1.5 billion in 2005, and will grow to more than $4.7 billion by 2010.

Kirstein's new DRM whitepaper, entitled Digital Rights Management and Conditional Access: Keys to the Digital Content Kingdom, is being made freely available to promote understanding of the challenges and opportunities of DRM/CA.

For a free copy of Kirstein's whitepaper, please send an e-mail to Jonathan Cassell, at jcassell@isuppli.com, or visit iSuppli's website at http://www.isuppli.com/whitepapers/ .

For a complete version of this press release, including iSuppli's DRM forecast, please visit: http://www.isuppli.com/news/default.asp?id=5923.

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About iSuppli Corporation

iSuppli Corporation, the global leader in electronics industry intelligence, provides market intelligence services for the EMS, OEMs, and supplier communities. iSuppli employs the world's largest and most experienced staff of component, systems, and application market analysts. More information is available at www.isuppli.com

Source: iSuppli Corporation

CONTACT: Jonathan Cassell, Editorial Director and Manager, Public
Relations of iSuppli Corporation, +1-408-654-1714, Mobile, +1-408-921-3754,
jcassell@isuppli.com

Web site: http://www.isuppli.com/whitepapers

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