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Saturday, 30 April 2005 |
60% of MP3 Player owners have no more than 200 songs
Jupiter
Digital-Music Player Sales In The United States will grow 35 percent this
year to 18.2 million units, according to a Jupiter Research report released
earlier this week. The "U.S. Portable Music Device Forecast" predicts growth
will remain above 10 percent for the next few years, with annual sales hitting
29.7 million units. The installed base will then reach 56.1 million units,
according to the report--compared with 16.2 million now--making MP3 players
commonplace. Jupiter's report estimates that 90 percent of U.S. consumers have
1,000 or fewer songs in their digital-music collections, and 60 percent have
less than 200.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Friday, 29 April 2005 |
Dutch government plan
iPod Tax
Pocket-lint.co.uk -
UK
A Netherlands proposed tax on MP3 players could devastate sales of hard
disk players, and set up international waves over copyright legislation.
The tax is being proposed by the Stichting Thuiskopie foundation, and is set to
become law in the Netherlands in a few short months unless the European
Commission finds a reason to intervene. It is unlikely that will happen, as it
has failed to come up with a policy for levy taxation so far.
The idea of all levy based legislation is that some form of copyright
collections agency collects tax by imposing a surcharge at the point of sale for
any storage devices that could possibly be used to store pirated works. This
certainly extends to the iPod which has up to 60 GB of storage, and which can
store MP3 files.
Because of the fact that the great bulk of iPods are used to store legitimate
iTunes files which are Digital Rights Management (DRM) protected, this means
that copyright is being purchased twice over for these devices if a levy is also
paid.
The charge will be levied against every MP3 player, and is effectively a tax on
the MP3 format. Some efforts to place MP3 files under DRM protection will also
mean that these will pay copyright twice over.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Thursday, 28 April 2005 |
Nokia
expects Nseries phones to compete with iPods and Canon
Globe and Mail -
Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Nokia unveiled its N91 multimedia phone, which will have a 4-gigabyte hard drive
that can store thousands of music files. The phone, which will also run on
high-speed 3G and wireless LAN networks, is due out by the end of the year.
Nokia said its other new phones, the N90 and the N70, will have two-megapixel
cameras with high quality Carl Zeiss AG lenses. The N90 will be in shops in the
second quarter at a price of around €600 ($969), while the N70, also a 3G phone,
will hit the shelves in the third quarter. Apple's original iPod retails for
about €319 in Europe. Canon's cameras start at less than half the N90's cost.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Wednesday, 27 April 2005 |
RealNetworks Joins the Subscription Music Fray
Top Tech News, CA
With the announcement, Real Networks will begin head-to-head competition with
established music download services such as Napster. "Before long, anybody who's
not Apple is going to roll out a subscription service," Yankee Group's Mike
Goodman said.
Amid much fanfare, Real Networks is expected to announce Tuesday its own take on
a subscription-based music-download service based on the tethered downloads made
possible by Microsoft's Latest News about Microsoft digital rights management
software.
With the announcement, Real Networks will begin head-to-head competition with
established music download services such as Napster Latest News about Napster.
"Before long, anybody who's not Apple Latest News about Apple is going to roll
out a subscription service," Yankee Group's Mike Goodman said.
Rhapsody on Steroids
The subscription download feature will be added to Real's existing Rhapsody
streaming music service.
For US$14.95 per month, customers will be able to download songs they wish to
transfer to compatible MP3 Latest News about MP3 music players. Those songs will
remain available to customers for as long as they maintain their subscriptions.
The Rhapsody library currently comprises just fewer than one million songs.
That, Goodman said, is one of the big advantages of such services -- giving
music fans access to a larger library.Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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