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Mobile-Ticketing - Delivery On Mobile Phone
quark007 writes "That's Cricket is reporting that the first match of the India-Australia cricket Test series in Bangalore next month will have hi-tech ticketing with the launch of 'Mobile-Ticketing,' a new service that enables cricket fans across the world to book the tickets online. But thats half the fun, since
the tickets would be delivered directly to their mobile phones. the service is managed by Spice . The service delives the ticket as a special barcode which can then be scanned by a barcode reader. Sounds simple. Wired reported a similar story a while back." A system like this would have been great in my unsuccessful hunt for LotR Marathon tickets.
Back in 2000, this was the original plan of a Washington, DC startup called ZebraPass. They failed spectacularly.
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go to NTT Docomo to see their phones and what they are capable of. Barcoding, ticket sales? Already in place for the past 2 years in jp.
As an American I have no idea what they are talking about.
Also as an American I will act as if this is your fault.
This is pretty neat because it makes scalping (which is illegal in the US) almost impossible.
Unfortuneately, most people in the US don't have a phone that would be compatible with this system
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When I read the title the first thing that popped in my head is that while I'm driving at 70 mph in the school zone, reading the paper and yapping on my cell-phone, the copy will send my speeding/wreckless driving/careless driving ticket to my cell phone directly... no need to pull me over and disrupt traffic...
;)
Good to know I'm safe for another few years before someone implements this...
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Me: "Ok, I want a ticket for the Manchester United match..."dit-dit-diddit
Phone: "Congratulations! You have an advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
Me: "wtf.. Gimme a ticket for The Producers..."diddit-dit-dit-dit
Phone: "Congratulations! You have another advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
Me: "whaaaattt.. How about a ticket for standing in the road and being hit by a bus..." dit-diddit-dit
Phone: "Congratulations! You have yet another advance ticket for Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"
Me: "Hm.. I think this thing's been 0wn3d, that could explain all the sold out performances of Barry Manilow."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I wonder how the "barcode" works, exactly. The story doesn't go to any details. Different cell phones display images in different ways, and older models might not be able to display them at all. Resolutions vary wildly. Of course I guess they could just go for the lowest common denominator of image-compatible cell phones, like a 40x40 black and white bitmap. But it's probably an MMS image which kind of limits the audience. Still, a neat idea, beats waiting in line if your phone is up to it.
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just call the ticket office ON your cell phone and order the tickets.
Hmmm..decisions decisions
I've been printing eTickets for a few years, all they do is scan the barcode at the door.
Nothing really new here, except for the mobile phone angle. Personally I wish people would leave their mobile phones at home just fucking once.
Everyone thinks their so fucking important that they need to take calls in the middle of the Phantom of the Opera.
If you're an emergency room doctor who's on call, by all means carry your cell phone around. But don't go out to 100 dollar a ticket broadway plays and ruin them you pretentious fucks.
Will we as a society ever get over the novelty of cell phones? You still see people talking in public with that stupid look of half-stupidity and half-conceit on their face and saying things like "GUESS WHERE I'M CALLING FROM!!!"
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The worst part is when the guy at the turnstile tears your phone in half.
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If you're an Orange customer then you can get a free cinema ticket every Wednesday (two for the price of one) just by sending a text (SMS) to or calling 241. The free ticket is sent to your phone by text (SMS) as a short (~10 digit) number, which is inputted by the cashier at the cinema when you get your tickets.
It's simple and it works. And if it works for cinema tickets then it will work for concerts, sports, the theatre, planes, trains, etc.
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If you've been to Tokyo Dome City (The amusement park next to the tokyo dome) recently you'd have seen people cutting in line by putting their cellphone screens on to little scanning beds. For the modest sum of 1000 yen you could reserve four spots in line at either the main rollercoaster or the ferris wheel. They would send your cell phone an e-mail with a funky barcode that was less bar code and more dot-matrix/bitmappy black and white image. I cut a four hour line into 15 minutes. I love japanese cellphone technology.
Not quite the same, but in a similar area with similar gains.. in the capital of Estonia, you can use your phone to buy/pay for parking. You park up, put your registration number in, and pay via SMS/text message. Sure beats dealing with a broken meter, and also means you can 'top up' your parking from afar if you need to park for longer than originally planned.
An even more extravagant way for my wife to spend our money faster than I can make it. Please...don't tell my wife about this.
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The bar code reader uses a CCD camera to capture the image and a relatively powerful processor to decode the data from it.
It is actually not that easy to construct a reader that is able to read these bar codes, from a variety of mobile telephone displays. Especially when the backlight of the telephone is off, it is difficult to get an image with good contrast while avoiding reflections from the reader's light source.
When someone figures out the algorithm for generating the barcodes, I'd imagine this company will be on that list too.
I sure hope there's more "proof" of ticket than just a CRC check.
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For a brief moment I had the wonderful vision of people who talk loud enough on their phone in a train for everyone to hear the conversation getting a Mobile Ticket for being stupid in public...
What's this about cricket?
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Here in NZ, we've been using it for a little while. i'm quite sure how successful it is but i use it a lot.
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check out this site
http://www.mticket.net/
There's only once gripe with it. You have a cut off point thats about a day or so before the event in which they send the event owners a sheet that is used as a sort of 'guest list'. You can't stand outside a dance party and txt in your ticket and expect to be on the door
Trust me, I've been there
.. that misinterpreted the headline and thought I'd be getting speeding tickets on my cell phone as I drove past a trooper?
Ummm... no wait... I don't speed... I was thinking about that *neighbor* kid getting a speeding ticket....