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Shops selling mp3 in future?
Your going round Tesco / Sainsburys. Half way round you stop at these booths, put in your £2.50, plug in your mp3 player / ipod, and select the 5 tunes you get.
You then take your reciept from the booth and use it to get your clubcard points at the checkout. (you either scan the barcode or the shop assistant does it for you) Do you see this happening? Or do you think its more likely they will start selling mp3 CD's with 50 tracks for £10. or perhaps USB sticks with 200 tracks for £40?? normal 120 minute CD's must be approaching their last legs. |
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Good idea! I could totally see that happening actually
It would get more people able to purchase download only songs
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Yes I thought about this once. One of the basic problems with mp3 as it is now is that you need a credit card. How are young people under 18 (who are the people most likely to buy songs) meant to buy songs off iTunes or other download sites? They have to use their parents credit cards which just makes things awkward.
That's something the industry never used their brains to consider. No wonder so many young people download illegally. |
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Good idea in theory and I would certainly be for it but I see one glaring problem with the booth idea. The vast majority of mp3 players are from Apple, either the iPod or the iPhone therefore Apple are notoriously precious with their platform so I'm guessing the would be wanting a license fee for each booth or block them altogether.
Best idea is the USB stick one, it has already been trialed in some instances and seemingly went well. Chart albums on USB sticks won't be too far away I would guess. |
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Thats very interesting actually! However, i am pro CDs and dont want them to die out
i just prefer having it physically in my hand and the quality is obviously so much higher. It is inevitable that they will die a painful death though ![]()
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Thats very interesting actually! However, i am pro CDs and dont want them to die out
i just prefer having it physically in my hand and the quality is obviously so much higher. It is inevitable that they will die a painful death though ![]() ![]()
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normal 120 minute CD's must be approaching their last legs. But you can still buy the 70 minute ones. CDs will never die out. Audiophiles can even buy new SACDs and DVD-A's even though they were supposed to be "dead" years ago. |
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I've never heard of a 120 minute cd! It was always a maximum of 74 minutes for starters,later increased to 80,but I know you can get 90 minute blanks for recording.
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I'm sure you could get these types of machines in Hong Kong. IN the underground you get a machine at the stations where you were able to plug in your mp3 player, or usb based cable/item and download songs to it.
I'm sure I've seen them about a few years ago... SO I guess they could implement these in stores? |
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Why take a step backwards, and introduce a middle man?
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I thought of something like this many many years ago but it wasn't for Ipods (for at the time such a thing did not exist) but for Mini-Discs where you could slip in a blank Mini-Disc and record onto it anything you wanted however I never fealt it would come off as it would be too easy to copy from one to another but you never know, it might work for the iGeneration.
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Bring back vinyl! FFS
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I'm sure you could get these types of machines in Hong Kong. IN the underground you get a machine at the stations where you were able to plug in your mp3 player, or usb based cable/item and download songs to it.
I'm sure I've seen them about a few years ago... SO I guess they could implement these in stores? I can't speak for vending machines (i.e. machines in underground stations) but when it came to stores, the problems were: 1) People were already used to / comfortable with downloading MP3's from their computer. 2) Initially people were curious about downloading in stores - a few of them tended to browse but few people ever bought. Of course, only one person could use a machine at a time. You could put several machines in, but it would cost you more to do so. 3) No-one went into a store looking to download something. If it was available in a store, it was an impulse purchase. 4) Apple make it extremely hard for any downloading service other than itunes to link directly with ipods (the market leader). They've also threatened litigation with companies that have tried to link directly. 5) The costs of implementing it at retail level are huge. Not only do you need all the equipment (which is prone to failure btw), you also need to build, maintain, update and refresh the interface (the bit that people use to find stuff) as well as running a sophisticated high-speed network (which requires more costly equipment) allowing files to be transferred quickly. You can contract with a third-party service to do all that - but the costs they will charge you will leave you with next to no profit. In short, it'd be far more profitable to do something with that space instore other than put in equipment that enables customers to download. Quote:
normal 120 minute CD's must be approaching their last legs.
BTW - I think 82 minutes is the longest they've made CD's so far. Anything over 74 minutes is pretty dodgy... |
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Thats very interesting actually! However, i am pro CDs and dont want them to die out
i just prefer having it physically in my hand and the quality is obviously so much higher. It is inevitable that they will die a painful death though ![]() ![]() I love having CDs.
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I know what you mean.
I love having CDs. |
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I know what you mean.
I love having CDs.You can also get CDs pretty cheaply nowadays |
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They're actually doing this in HMV. There are little booths with places to plug in your devices. I don't think you can use them yet; they say 'coming soon', but they definitely exist! There are two in the Guildford HMV, but I know they're not in the Woking or Portsmouth one yet.
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Surely anyone with an MP3 player needs a computer in the first place? With internet not really being rare, there seems to be little business sense for this.
I see the only real reason for it is so people can use cash instead of a card, and even then you can buy things such as iTunes vouchers anyway. |
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I love CDs and I never download. I listen to CDs in the car most of the time, and I buy them and put them on my iPod rather than downloading from iTunes.
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Surely anyone with an MP3 player needs a computer in the first place?
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It would get more people able to purchase download only songs

i just prefer having it physically in my hand and the quality is obviously so much higher. It is inevitable that they will die a painful death though