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05.27.08Gamestop Dropping Zune, What Exactly is Microsoft’s Zune Strategy Now?photo credit: markhoekstra How sad it is that the biggest news to come from the Zune front in the past few months is anything but positive: Word is out that Gamestop has stopped selling Zunes. Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long, not because the Zune 2 is a worthless player (despite what some other news reports seem to love implying), but because it was a dumb idea to sell the Zune 2 in a freaking video game store in the first place. I'm sure some genius marketing drone figured it was a good spot because 1) Gamestop fit the target ...
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01.09.08The Forgotten Format War: Toshiba’s "DVD-Audio" vs Sony’s "Super Audio CD"All this talk about the HD DVD and Blu-ray format war being over has reminded me of a similar situation involving two other competing media formats. Not many people realize that the current format war was not the first "high-definition" war between Toshiba and Sony. The battle for high-definition audio supremacy has actually been going on for some time now, long before we ever caught word of these new-fangled HD video formats. Toshiba's DVD-Audio format, along with Sony's Super Audio CD, both fought to be the evolutionary high-definition standard from the now ubiquitous CD. Sporting support for higher resolution audio quality, ...
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08.26.07Why Doesn’t Emusic Carry Over Unused Tracks Every Month?I've grown very fond of eMusic lately. In a world where online music retailers have only recently begun to offer DRM-free tracks eMusic lies ahead of the pack. Their claim to fame is that they shun DRM completely with high-quality DRM free MP3s. Not only was it a wise business move to forgo DRM (it made them one of the few online music stores compatible with iPods), it was also an extremely rare pro-consumer decision in a business that often treats consumers like thieves. Offering higher quality tracks than the iTunes store's 128kbps AAC tracks is just the icing on ...
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01.24.06Students Suing i2Hub for RIAA SettlementsThis showed up a few days ago, but I just noticed it today as it was mentioned on This Week in Tech. Apparently quite a few students from UMASS are suing the creator of i2Hub because they were targeted by the RIAA for sharing music on the Internet 2 P2P network. Absurdity like this is possible now because of the dangerous precedent set by the Grokster fiasco--a P2P company can now be held liable if the court determines that the company was promoting their illegal filesharing aspects. What is there to say? These students obviously can't deal with the fact that ...
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