p2pnet - rss feed: Keychain concert recorder
p2pnet.net News:- “What we were seeing is that a large number of people were taking their CDs home and ripping them to MP3s, so we thought it would benefit music fans to eliminate that middle step,” Reilly said.
That’s the rationale behind a new (expensive) process which the developers hope will make them rich.
It’s based on a “cigarette-lighter-sized hard drive hanging off your keychain,” says a Newsday report here, quoting Scott Ambrose Reilly, president of eMusic Live, and going on:
“The technology is quite simple: The music fan goes up to the touch-screen kiosk after the show and buys the keychain drive with a credit card from a dispenser alongside the screen. Once that’s done, the miniature drive is inserted into a slot in the kiosk, and the recording - stored as MP3 files - is loaded onto the device’s 128-megabyte hard drive. That is enough space for 110 minutes of music.”
How much? Ten dollars for the recording, says Newsday, and $20 for the reusable, keychain drive.
