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Research and Markets: Closely Aligned With OMA DRM V2.0, Coral Is an Ambitious Project Aimed At the Consumer Media Market in Providing the Most Interesting Initiative in the Market Today.


DUBLIN Dublin, city, Republic of Ireland
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, Ireland Ireland, Irish Eire (âr`ə) [to it are related the poetic Erin and perhaps the Latin Hibernia], island, 32,598 sq mi (84,429 sq km), second largest of the British Isles.  -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41964) has announced the addition of Music DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio.

(2) (Digital Rights M
 - The State of the Art and Beyond to their offering.

* Coral Consortium

* Interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other.  Initiatives

* Detailed Description

* Architecture Diagrams

* Market Developments

* Online and Mobile

Drawing upon in-depth discussions with senior-level representatives at InterTrust, Microsoft and ContentGuard, this report explains the history of DRM standardisation Noun 1. standardisation - the condition in which a standard has been successfully established; "standardization of nuts and bolts had saved industry millions of dollars"
standardization
 efforts, summarises the current status of the relevant DRMs, both fixed and mobile and then provides a detailed description of the most interesting initiative in the market today: the DRM interoperability framework being developed by the Coral Consortium.

Closely aligned with OMA DRM OMA DRM Open Mobile Alliance Digital Rights Management  V2.0, Coral is an ambitious project aimed at the consumer media market which has received the blessing of the recorded music recorded music nmúsica grabada  industry and practically all the key consumer electronics brands. First announced in October 2004, the consortium is expected to issue a first release of specifications within a few months.

But is Coral simply too ambitious? Perhaps a more likely solution is an interoperability agreement between Apple and Microsoft at some point in the future? On the other hand, perhaps Apple will maintain its current momentum and emerge as the dominant force in the market, marginalising all others?

This report offers a balanced assessment of six plausible market development trajectories, of which a Coral-based DRM interoperability regime is just one. The report goes on to outline a number of future developments in DRM based on existing market trends.

Content Outline:

NEW VISION FOR DRM

ACHIEVING INTEROPERABILITY

Market Scenarios

Scenario 1: Apple emerges as a defacto standard

Scenario 2: Business as Usual

Scenario 3: Windows Media Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows.  gains critical mass

Scenario 4: Apple and Microsoft agree to work together

Scenario 5: DRM Standard becomes established

Scenario 6: DRM interoperability standard becomes established

Summary

CORAL CONSORTIUM

Key Concepts

Scenario 1: Reference System

Scenario 2: Coral-enabled Ecosystem

Content Packaging Tools: Restricted DRMs

Content Delivery Platform: Rights Token

Implementation

Transferring Content between Devices

Outline of Process

Marlin: A New Coral-compliant DRM

Nemo

Octopus

OTHER DRM INTEROPERABILITY INITITATIVES

FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS

More DRMs

License becomes associated with individual, not simply the device

License Domains or Zones

Geographic Associations

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Companies Mentioned:

* Apple

* Microsoft

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41964
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