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Home Stereo Equipment With Online Music Purchasing

Posted by michael on from the one-click dept.

nebulous bee writes "Yahoo is reporting on a new piece of home stereo equipment going on sale in Japan that has an ethernet port that can be linked directly to an online music store. You can purchase new music using the unit's built-in LCD display and hear it 'instantly'. No PC required. There are no plans to sell it yet outside of the land of the rising sun."

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  1. Not appealing by YouHaveSnail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For some reason, having my stereo hooked up to the net buying songs seems just a little too close to pay-per-use than I'm comfortable with.

  2. this shouldn't sound unusual by Dreadlord · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess this is what we are going to in the near future, all of our appliances will have some sort of computer inside them, a computer that's capable of doing what the appliance needs.
    So later we may read a /. story about a refrigerator that allows you to buy groceries online, it's just a matter of time.

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  3. They already have one by Neuracnu+Coyote · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's called an iPod. Just add a $2 stereo Y cable from any old electronics store and it plugs into every rack system known to man.

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  4. Re:Purchase? by jared_hanson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Don't bother going to college. In fact, if you're in school drop out now regardless of your grade level. If you have kids, pull them out or don't send them to school to begin with. There is after all, no value in any of the information that will be learned.

    All jobs are based on information and experience, even McDonalds' fry cooks. Economies give a society order. If you want to promote your utopia, figure out a logical argument that will pursuade the people. Until them, I will consider your theory illogical and continue purchasing information I consider valuable.

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  5. Re:Purchase? by CaptRespect · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your right, why pay for it when I can simply jump on a p2p network, download a file, realize that it's only half the song, download another file , realize that it's a virus, download another file, verify that it's the correct song, startup my CD Burning software, burn it to a CD and finally play it in my stereo.

    OR... just pay the 2 bucks, download it and play it on my stereo.