That sounds pretty awesome, but I see a few limitations: namely the need for an AC adapter and a projection wall, and the fact that hospital thin client workstations are usually already all over the place. Still, I'm with GP: this should be excellent for presentations on the go,--if you have enough battery for it.
That doesn't seem quite right, the story says that it's a *download* function: "consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
Seems kinda fishy to me. Will the CD play on a traditional CD player? (This seems to imply that it does.) How long will it be before someone figures out how to get around this?
"Copied music on a hard disk drive can be transferred to audio devices that comply with SME's OpenMG digital rights management (DRM) technology for a number of times set by the music company."
Note that this says "copied music", and nothing about the CD itself. I don't imagine any DRM-conscious consumers (i.e. the majority of the/. readership) would even care to use Sony's Magical OpenMG Pixie Stick(tm) technology.... Furthermore, knowing Sony, the only portable (note: Portable != PC) OpenMG-compliant players available will be made by Sony, and hella expensive at that. And, I doubt they'll give up: think of the MD players that have been around for so long, and the Memorty Sticks with OpenMG support that have also been around for a couple years.
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That sounds pretty awesome, but I see a few limitations: namely the need for an AC adapter and a projection wall, and the fact that hospital thin client workstations are usually already all over the place. Still, I'm with GP: this should be excellent for presentations on the go,--if you have enough battery for it.
here's an informative thread...see ted's post, five comments down.
would've been nice if this had been posted in the story itself.
The praying mant is truly a creature to be feared. Makes radioactive trees pale in comparison, doesn't it?
That doesn't seem quite right, the story says that it's a *download* function: "consists of two kinds of music data -- one is data for audio devices to replay and the other is encoded compressed data for PCs to replay."
/. readership) would even care to use Sony's Magical OpenMG Pixie Stick(tm) technology. ... Furthermore, knowing Sony, the only portable (note: Portable != PC) OpenMG-compliant players available will be made by Sony, and hella expensive at that. And, I doubt they'll give up: think of the MD players that have been around for so long, and the Memorty Sticks with OpenMG support that have also been around for a couple years.
Seems kinda fishy to me. Will the CD play on a traditional CD player? (This seems to imply that it does.) How long will it be before someone figures out how to get around this?
"Copied music on a hard disk drive can be transferred to audio devices that comply with SME's OpenMG digital rights management (DRM) technology for a number of times set by the music company."
Note that this says "copied music", and nothing about the CD itself. I don't imagine any DRM-conscious consumers (i.e. the majority of the