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The Digital Music Retail Platform Accounts for Half of the Download Market in Europe

Posted on: Thursday, 30 March 2006, 06:00 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34990) has announced the addition of Digital Music Retail Platforms: Case Study - A Profile of Europe's Leading Platform - SDC/DWS to their offering.

-- Detailed Description

-- Rival Platforms

-- OMA DRM V2.0

-- SDC vs. WMA DRM

-- Trusted Clearing House

-- Content Injection

Setting up a music retail presence used to be a fairly straightforward affair. Having acquired a suitable retail location, the main tasks were the shop refit, hiring staff and stocking the store with CDs. Although essential, the role of IT was minor, involving little more than setting up a stock control and ordering system and establishing a connection to a card payment service provider.

How things have changed! Today, launching a digital music store is a highly complex project that requires deep IT and internetworking expertise, a task that is complicated further if the retailer wants to sell across multiple channels such as online, mobile and TV.

To help companies enter the digital music retail market there are now over ten different technology platforms to choose between, each of which has a different blend of strengths and weaknesses.

This report describes Europe's leading, licensable digital music retail platform which currently accounts for about 50% of the European download market. The Swiss-based sister companies, SDC and DWS, together offer a complete white label solution that includes patented DRM technology, automated content injection, a trusted clearing house and rights management platform, mobile and online shop interfaces and client software for both PC and mobile.

The report is aimed at professionals who want a clear explanation of how a digital music store operates, right from the point where the record label approves content for digital distribution to the point where the end user starts to listen.

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c34990

Source: Business Wire

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