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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. good by happyfrogcow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There are no plans to sell it yet outside of the land of the rising sun."

    Good. I don't want my stereo, or anything else besides my computer, networked and DRM'd to death. I'm starting to not even want my computer networked.

  3. Very cool, even if it won't be here in the States. by /dev/trash · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It will be Linux based, and will work with NetMD disks.

  4. 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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  5. Apple? by TrippTDF · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could this be the next step for Apple? It would make sense to me. A $500 to $700 device that looks good, is linked to your Mac and iTMS account, and looks really, really cool. I give it a year to six months.

  6. I'm cool with my LP's by niko9 · · Score: 4, Funny

    When that rogue nation ICBM hits in a town near you, and the EMP wipes out all your ethernet purchased "eeeemusic" from your "peeceees", I'll be warm in cozy in my bomb shelter with a can of spam and my vinyl records -thank you very much.

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  7. 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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  8. Re:I wonder if it has sound outputs? by mopslik · · Score: 4, Informative

    someone might make a copy of the music they purchased for themselves

    From the article:

    Users will be able to browse, download, store and play song files, record them on a mini-disc or transfer them to other digital music devices, said Any Music CEO Fujio Noguchi.

  9. Too bad Apple is preventing me from using it... by Quarters · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yup, according to Microsoft, now that I've installed iTunes on my PC Apple is preventing me from using other online music purchase choices.

    Even if this came to the States I couldn't use it. Thanks Apple, thanks bunches.

  10. Differences in Japan's music scene by dinodriver · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are some interesting differences in Japan's music industry that should be considered.

    1) cd prices are fixed, at least for a certain time period after the release. when i lived there it was 3000 yen (US$27) for an album and 1000yen (US$9)for a single.

    2) they have a much stronger emphasis on singles over albums. mini-cd singles are sold in huge numbers, for 1000 yen.

    3) they have CD rental shops much the way many countries have video/dvd rental shops. I think albums rent for like 400 yen and singles 200 yen? Can't remember.

    Therefore, this is a country whose music industry is not as concerned with home copying of the music (otherwise they wouldn't rent them), has people convinced a single is worth 1000 yen and so selling them as downloads for 210 yen can be successful even though this is like twice what apple charges, and has a music buying public that is used to buying songs one at a time instead of buying albums.

  11. 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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  12. 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.

  13. Re:Sarcastic, but truthfull. Very truthfull. by Lochin+Rabbar · · Score: 4, Funny

    The wife threw me out the house so I moved into a small flat and replaced her with a Palm.

  14. Re:Pet Peave by otisaardvark · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yeah, I hate redundancy in my TLA acronyms, but I can't stay, my ABS system in my car has broken - the DC current overloaded as it was controlled by the DOS operating system - it says so via an LED diode on my LCD display here.

    Incidentally, I'm having a GOP party to celebrate passing my GRE exam, please RSVP.

    PS, these paragraph things are funky, don't you love HTML language?