Insight Research of the US puts out some interesting thoughts on the DRM market this week saying that it will reach $2 billion by 2012, doubling from its value today at just over $1billion.
That represents an overall compound annual growth of just 13.1%. If the US investment world believed those numbers, then many of the highly valued DRM companies would be downgraded overnight.
Insight says that the fastest growth will be in TV Home Entertainment Networks, followed by wireline multimedia, wireless devices and network DRM implementations, and retail and corporate software application implementations.
Our own thoughts are that the costs of OMA alone by that time, when over 1 billion handsets are likely to have not one, but multiple implementations of DRM, will exceed the Insight estimates.