Oct
13
Briefly: Japan wants iPod tax, Seagate on flash memory, RIAA in dispute with Sirius & XM, Sony PCM-D1 Field Recorder, Creative Zen Sleek review
- Japan’s Music Industry Wants Fee on Sales of Latest Digital Players (they want a 2-5% tax on all portable digital audio players to compensate for their losses; a 2% fee is already imposed on devices such as CD and MD recorders; Peter Rojas has a few more thoughts on the absurdity of this)
- Seagate vs. Samsung ‘Do you think the HDD is really dead?’ (Seagate says “it would be impossible to release 500GB flash memory until cars would fly in the sky”; I like funny quotes—also read Seagate CEO’s interview) [via]
- Sat Radio, Record Industry Could Clash (RIAA fears the devices launched by Sirius and XM that that allow recording of songs will hurt record sales; in more royalty-
newswars: RIAA asks more than $1B to renegotiate the satellite radio operators’ 5-year contracts; what’s the current contract—set to expire next next year—worth? oh, $80M—in other words, they’re going for a humble 1250% raise) [via] - Sony Debuts PCM-D1 Field Recorder at AES (comes with 4GB memory built-in, can also use MemoryStick Pro cards; records at 96KHz/24-bit; expect it around December for around $2K—I like the way it looks) [via]
- Yet another Creative Zen Sleek review (the non-removable battery and the proprietary USB cable suck—that’s so not Creative)
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