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Initial Questions for Microsoft's New “PlayReady” DRM System

Authored by Harry Wang on February 12, 2007 - 9:56am.

Amid industry-wide speculation of where the DRM technologies will be heading in the next few years, Microsoft today debut a new DRM system “PlayReady” at 3GSM Conference. Technical details are sketchy at this point, but the concept of “PlayReady” is a system- or platform-agnostic technology that does not hide access keys for individual devices. Rather, it holds a common key to a set of devices (defined as “a domain”) and content providers and device manufacturers can decide how many and what types of devices the key can unlock.

Field Trip Report from GameStop

Authored by Michael Cai on January 29, 2007 - 9:15am.

I made two trips to two different gamestop stores in Plano and Frisco over the weekend, trying to do some informal channel research on the three next-gen game consoles. Both stores have sold out all of their Wii consoles but have PS3 machines available. The store in Frisco, which is inside of one of the most popular mega-malls in the area, has two PS3s and the sales clerk said they've had them for more than 3 days. In contrast, besides a Wii for demo purposes, they don't have any Wii consoles left in store.

Report: Internet Video Revenues to Pass $7 Billion in 2010

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 7, 2006 - 3:40pm.

Dallas - Annual U.S. revenues from Internet video services, which include user-generated content as well as TV shows and movies, will exceed $7 billion by 2010, according to a report from market research firm Parks Associates.