Sep
5
Briefly: Music services’ DRM explained, New Creative speakers, DualDisc sales up
- The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User’s Guide to DRM in Online Music (iTMS, PlaysForSure, RealNetworks & Napster’s DRM explained for the average Joe; bottom-line is that you own jack when you get DRM’ed tunes)
- Creative Expands Portable Speakers Family (the TravelDock 900 is the most interesting model; around $100, “built-in docking stereo audio plug for instant connection to any MP3 player, including iPod Shuffle”, and “when hooked up to a power adapter, it has the ability to charge the MP3 players, including iPod Shuffle”)
- DualDisc Format Gains Footing (“hybrid disc technology which integrates music and video features [...] accounting for about two percent of total CD sales since being introduced in last year’s fourth quarter”)
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