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Free classical music downloads of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony launch The Philadelphia Orchestra’s online music store.
(I like it!)
The Philadelphia Orchestra is the first major American orchestra to offer consumers the opportunity to download recent and archival music directly through its own website.
Also available for purchase in the store are the other Beethoven symphonies recorded under Christoph Eschenbach during the 2005-06 season, selections from the Orchestra’s highly acclaimed Centennial Collection with works conducted by the great maestros of Philadelphia – Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti and Sawallisch -– and pieces recorded during the past six years.
Initial prices range from $.99 (why is it always this price?!) for works under 10 minutes to $4.99 for a major work; in the future full concerts will be priced at $9.99. Special projects will be priced separately.
These recordings will initially be released as high-quality 256 kbps MP3s –- claimed to be a better-sounding audio format than similarly priced offerings available through the iTunes Music Store –- and in a true CD-quality format known as FLAC.
Future plans include downloads available in even higher-resolution 24-bit formats to further attract audiophiles who seek better than CD-quality audio recordings.
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Let's get the lawyers out of the way! According to a CEA SmartBrief report, a film industry group plans to remove some of the hurdles that have prevented the legal recording of movies onto blank DVDs -- a further sign that Hollywood studios are preparing to expand what consumers can do with downloadable movies.
Here's the details: Under rule changes expected to be finalized soon by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVDCCA), retailers could create movie jukebox kiosks with which customers can select a movie and burn it to a DVD on the spot. Also, online music sites, like iTunes, could start to allow video downloads to be transferred onto DVDs.
These impending changes involve the copy group's proprietary technology known as the Content Scramble System (CSS). The DVDCAA licenses the encryption technology to makers of DVD players and other electronics companies and applies it widely to movies on DVDs to restrict illegal copying.
Soon, licensing will expand to movies that are digitally distributed on demand or a la carte — and not just for movies that are mass produced on DVDs. The group also is working with disc makers to produce CSS-compatible blank DVDs.
This move would eliminate the problem of hardware and software compatibility, like faced by CinemaNow customers' whose downloaded movies sometimes don't play on standard DVD players.
For those of you who can't get enough of kiosk technology and future trends, there's actually a trade show next month -- the Self-Service & Kiosk Show -- in San Antonio, TX.
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In the "Why not?" category comes the iTunes/movies linkup.
Although Apple's iTunes Music Store has sold more than 15 million digitized TV shows and videos (who would have guessed?), it has yet to begin selling feature-length movies.
Is this due technical challenges or the the film industry's piracy concerns?
Apparently delivering multi-gigabyte files presents difficulties in choosing file formats, bandwidth and picture and sound quality.
This brief from CEA SmartBriefs; read all about in at www.technologyreview.com.
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As several news sites
have reported, Microsoft plans to release a new music and entertainment player and accompanying software under the "Zune" brand this year to challenge the
Apple iPod media player. The latest Apple iPod plays both music and videos with the ability to download TV shows and
now even full-fledged movies via iTunes.
Microsoft hopes to take some of the 70& marketshare from Apple which has dominated the portable media player market.
The sad thing is, Microsoft could have dominated this market had they minituarized the bulky PocketPC years ago. The PocketPC enjoyed some success, but never really took off. Part of the reason was that PocketPCs were too bulky to use as an MP3 player while jogging on a treadmill or just walking down the street. Even when
Dell launched the Axim series of PocketPCs, which were thinner and lighter, it was too late. Blackberries stole the show for remote email access and the iPod stole the show for portable music leaving PocketPCs out in the cold. Even though the PocketPC could do remote email, play mp3s, as well as GPS navigation and other functionality, it unfortunately suffered from doing too many things "ok" and did not do
one thing really really well.Dell discontinued the Axim PocketPC series, and Windows Mobile 5 finally put the final nail in the coffin for PocketPCs. Why have a dedicated PocketPC PDA when you can get a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone that is a PDA plus a phone, and all the other functionality - mp3 player, calendar, email, etc.
Personally, I'd rather Microsoft offer a smartphone that can store >20GB of music and video content rather than try and compete with Apple's "one trick pony" iPod, which doesn't have smartphone functionality. All of the cellphones or even smartphones I have used have a terrible built-in MP3 player or didn't have enough storage. Most smartphones use SD/miniSD cards instead of hard drives to conserve battery power. If Microsoft were to offer a Windows Mobile 5 smartphone with >20GB of multimedia storage, decent standby/talk time, and an intuitive user interface (iPod-like) then I'd buy it in a nano-second.
So Microsoft, take my advice and forget about competing with the iPod with a single purpose "Zune" media player and instead offer a compelling converged device that does everything the iPod can do and more all on an easy-to-use smartphone. As a gadget-lover, this would be my dream device and I'd auction off my current iPod on eBay faster than you can say "buh bye iPod."
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All kind of noise yesterday about Microsoft developing a MP3 player to compete with Apple's iPod as well as a music download service to rival iTunes ...
Hard to imagine this is any kind of "iPod/iTunes slayer" -- anybody think any differently?
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Much ado earlier this week about Apple Computer winning a British court case that enables it to keep its bitten-apple logo on iTunes.
Seems that Apple Corps (representinng living and deceased members of the Fab Four) thought that symbol infringed on their own logo.
After one company sends some money to the other company as penalty, legal fees, etc., the ultimate question remains: Why can't you legally download Beatles songs from iTunes or any other music site? Can an agreement be reached sometime soon ...
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We blogged about it last week and now it's true.
Users of Microsoft's Xbox 360 Live video game service soon will be able to download TV shows like South Park and CSI as well as movies like V for Vendetta via deals inked with half a dozen Hollywood studios. (Thanks CEA SmartBrief.)
Some 1,000 hours of programming will be available by the end of year for a price that will be "competitive" with iTunes and other similar services, according to Microsoft amid a flurry of coverage.
This is exciting for gamers and even more exciting for movie/video fans; this planned service skips the PC to get the programming and then get it onto a viewing device (like a TV, for instance).
Is the Xbox 360 going to last a long time as the center of the home entertainment experience? 
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Yes, indeed! It only took who knows how many years before a major record label decided to release "major artist" music as MP3 files.
Kudos to Blue Note Records (owned by EMI) and Norah Jones deciding to go the MP3 route for her new single.
Yes, as CD sales decline, doesn't it make sense to go the MP3 route (or download in general) ...
And/or isn't this a way to get around iTunes as the de facto standard for music downloads ...
(Cut out the middle and more dough for the big boys ...) 
Read all about it here.
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It's about time someone decided to come out with computer desk and media accessories that have some uniformed style and grace.
And that's just what the Cupertino and Redmond collections of computer and media accessories from Allsop offer.
Finding inspiration in the iPod (why not?) and other popular high-tech items, the collections are designed to complement the best of the consumer electronics market in both style and function.
The collections feature clean lines and a colors (Apple white in the Cupertino collection -- pictured at left) and more basic black in the Redmond collection).
The Cupertino and Redmond Monitor Stand both feature rounded edges and a glossy outer shelf accented with a silver metallic base. This sturdy stand creates a more ergonomic work environment and frees up extra desktop space by lifting a monitor, laptop or printer off of the desk. MSRP: $29.99
CDs and DVDs are organized and accessible in the Cupertino and Redmond CD Album 32. Designed for compact storage for up to 32 discs, the album brings a sleek, futuristic look to this functional accessory. The album holds discs securely in flexible pages, protecting them from scratches and keeping them all in one place for easy organization. A window in the cover showcases the first CD inside. MSRP: $14.99
For a larger media storage option, the Cupertino and Redmond DVD Album 40 each holds 40 CDs or DVDs. Designed to store movie covers along with DVDs, the album is also perfect for keeping discs close at hand when working on the computer or for storing digital photos or music CDs. MSRP: $24.99
The oversized Cupertino and Redmond Mouse Pad each provides more room for extra control. The specially designed surface is textured for better traction when using a roller-ball mouse and fine tracking points for an optical laser mouse. The sturdy plastic frame provides a secure mousing surface and the rigid silver surface makes a fashion statement on the desktop or wherever you are working. MSRP: $14.99
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While the iPod and iTunes are inevitably linked (they're both Apple products, right? and they are linked on the Apple web site), interesting New York Times article today on the ratio between the number of songs downloaded from iTunes as compared to the number of iPods sold.
Anyone care to play the guessing game?
What's your answer to the question? Is it:
A: 1 to 1
B: 5 to 1
C: 10 to 1
D: 20 to 1
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I was just on the phone with Garvin Thomas, a reporter from
NBC11 News who wanted my take on the
iPhone lawsuit between
Apple and
Cisco and to discuss what he learned. First, when you search the
US Patent and Trademark Office database for iPhone you will see 4 separate trademark applications for the term "iPhone". One is by Cisco, another by Teledex, another by Xtreme Mobile, and lastly a trademark application owned by "Ocean Telecom Services LLC" based out of Delaware. Apple is noticeably absent from this list, so perhaps one of these companies is a shell company acting on behalf of Apple. Sure enough when I checked the patent descriptions for all of them, the only one that resembled the Apple iPhone was the application from Ocean Telecom Services. The application appears to have been filed on September 26, 2006, though I also see an earlier date called "foreign filing date" of March 27, 2006 from Trinidad and Tobago. The trademark application states:
C 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: handheld and mobile digital electronic devices for the sending and receiving of telephone calls, faxes, electronic mail, and other digital data; MP3 and other digital format audio players; handheld computers, personal digital assistants, electronic organizers, electronic notepads; magnetic data carriers; telephones, mobile phones, computer gaming machines, videophones, cameras; prerecorded computer programs for personal information management, database management software, electronic mail and messaging software, paging software, database synchronization software, computer programs for accessing, browsing and searching online databases, computer software and firmware, namely operating system programs, data synchronization programs, and application development tool programs for personal and handheld computers; electronic handheld units for the wireless receipt and/or transmission of data that enable the user to keep track of or manage personal information; software for the redirection of messages, Internet e-mail, and/or other data to one or more electronic handheld devices from a data store on or associated with a personal computer or a server; and software for the synchronization of data between a remote station or device and a fixed or remote station or device; computer hardware and software for providing integrated telephone communication with computerized global information networks
C 028. US 022 023 038 050. G & S: hand-held unit for playing electronic games
So this must be the Apple iPhone since it describes it to a tee. Take a look at the last description which states the iPhone will be a hand-held unit for playing electronic games. Guess Sony PSP and Nintendo GameBoy have some competition on their hands. Perhaps the device will be compatible with the arcade games recently introduced for download on iTunes which works with Apple's fifth-generation video iPods. Though at least the iPods have a 4-direction thumbpad/wheel. The Apple iPhone has only a touch screen for input, so I'm guessing only simple games that don't require a lot of finger dexterity. Though I suppose using finger gestures you could play games, but it would be more difficult. The attorney of record for Ocean Telecom Services (Apple) is James Johnston and he can be reached at jjohnstonoctelecom-at-sign-gmail.com. I plan to follow-up with him soon to get his take on all of this.
I also see that
Apple filed in Australia using the same Ocean Telecom Services. So there are two questions in all of this.
1) What was in the agreement that Apple didn't want to abide by?
Answer: That is something that unfortunately I don't think we'll get an answer to, since there was probably non-disclosure agreements in place during the negotiation phase.
2) What is Apple thinking if it is so clear that Cisco has the trademark? Why launch with this name if you haven't inked a deal?
Answer: Obviously, Apple must think they have a legal case in fighting Cisco on this. So what are the possible legal issues that would give Apple a strong case? The NBC News reporter told me he spoke with some patent and trademark attorney experts and they believe that Apple thinks there are other companies out there with goods or services called iPhone, not just Cisco. in effect, Cisco has not been protecting the trademark. The other possibility is that Cisco had abandoned the trademark and not used it for a period of time. In fact, this seems to be true since the
Linksys CIT200 and the
Linksys CIT310, (
both of which I reviewed) are now called the iPhone and
were only recently renamed on December 18th.. Specifically, each Linksys/Cisco product is called the Cordless Internet Telephony Kit or iPhone for short. Although they're keeping the CIT### for customers to determine the exact model within the iPhone "family". I guess you would call it the CIT200 iPhone and the CIT310 iPhone. The PDF manuals still reference the old name, such as
this manual for the CIT200 and I couldn't find a single reference to the word "iPhone" in the manual even though I see "iPhone®" with the registered trademark throughout their website. I guess they missed that. Time to re-print/convert those PDFs!
In fact, there are a bunch of other iPhones in the Linksys family of iPhone products. Here's the complete list:
The most compelling or likely attack on Cisco's trademark is on "a family of marks". The best analogy to use is McDonalds. Say you decide to start selling McTofu burgets - even if there is no trademark on
McTofu burgers, McDonalds can go to court and state they have a "family of marks". In fact, the court has ruled in the past in favor of McDonalds against a mattress company that tried to trademark McSleep. They ruled it belongs to McDonalds. So what Apple could do is say "we put 'i' in front of something is what we do, with iPod, iMac, iTunes, etc.". Of course what shoots that down is the fact that Cisco trademarked this term in 1996 BEFORE Apple launched the iMac or the iPod.
Another argument that trademark experts are saying is that Cisco in effect let their trademark expire and only brought it back later AFTER Apple had already brought to market a family of marks and products with the letter "i". Most experts expect that Cisco and Apple will settle this dispute before it goes to court, but knowing Steve Jobs, I wouldn't be surprised if he battles big, mighty Cisco. It's not like Steve Jobs ever tried to take on any other big heavyweights... like say Microsoft? :)
Another strong case for Apple would be to point out that if you went on the street and asked anyone on the street who do you think makes the iPhone, 90% of the people would guess iPhone, even if the iPhone didn't exist. This kind of evidence is actually admissible in court and used in these cases. Apple could argue that the family of marks using the letter "i" is more part of Apple than it is part of Cisco. In which case, if Apple win the case, Cisco could be forced to change their product-line name. Of course the CIT-series didn't have the name iPhone until very recently.
What's interesting is that Cisco was looking to "share" the trademark with Apple. Perhaps Cisco was looking to get some of the technology used in the Apple iPhone for their own products which would be a boom to Cisco. Technically, Linksys, since Cisco is focused on business and Linksys on the home/consumer-side. Unless Cisco or Apple divulges the terms of the tentative agreement I guess we'll never know.
Finally, the products are so different, nobody could confuse the two. If you just read the descriptions on the trademark applications you can see how different they are. Delta Dental, Delta Airline, Delta Faucet. Yes the Cisco iPhone is a VoIP phone,
but the Apple iPhone is a portable computing device that is a mobile phone, Internet browser, data device, mp3 player, and more. Though, the experts state this is perhaps the weakest argument since both products are still phones.
It will be interesting to see how this all pans out and who gets to keep the "i" in iPhone. Kinda reminds me of my "
Grinch Who Stole the 'I' in CTI" blog post. Maybe I should re-do that blog post only with Cisco and Apple as the main characters. B)
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Everybody (including me) wonders why music downloads all cost 99 cents (or so).
(OK, Wal-mart is 88 cents per song).
Well, now we have an interesting article today about wholesale music download pricing — a fancy term for how much music download sites, like iTunes, etc., pay record labels for songs.
Well, does anyone out there care to venture a guess?
Times up — it’s apparently 70 cents per song, which gives the labels a nice piece of change and the download sites a nice markup. That’s apparently information contained in a lawsuit that the record labels don’t want made public — the better to see potential price fixing? A very bad, as in capital B, thing.
Did anyone come up with that number?
Without any physical items attached to the music (no CD to press, no jewel case to buy, no printing to be concerned about, no distribution costs), seems like 70 cents per song is a very nice payoff indeed for the record labels.
And I bet the artists whose music is being downloaded will be very interested to know how much the labels are making …
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How about this for irony -- a simple hack enables Nintendo's Wii to access a computer's media collection, with the Wii remote (you know, the one with the strap problem) then being used to view 
photos and browse iTunes playlists on a TV.
Isn't this the convergence of the computer and home entertainment that the big boys (Microsoft, HP, Sony, etc.) have been battling for over the past few years.
(Makes the battles and intrigues of Lord of the Rings seem tame ... better comparison anyone?)
Get the whole story here, and please let me know if you get this to work at home ... 
And as if Wii sales aren't giving Sony and Microsoft fits already?
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I heard the news today, oh boy ...
Much buzz today about the apparent resolution of when and where (forget about if), the Beatles LPs/CDs will be available for download. More on that here.
Not too surprised that Apple (working with the Beatles' label, Apple Records -- nice coincidence, eh?) will apparently have a short, exclusive window to have the upcoming, newly remastered CDs available on iTunes.
(But am surprised about how often they can keep going back and remastering these albums over an over again ...)
Get those MP3 players (or at least iPods) ready!.
Let's see -- iPhone, Beatles on iTunes, Apple's year is off to a very fast start! What will the next act be ...
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Of course we're excited about Steve Jobs saying that he'd love to offer all of us free music on iTunes, but the record labels have his hands tied with their DRM schemes.
(All kinds of reports on that here and here.)
(Thanks for the image www.mccombs.utexas.edu.)
Easy to say you'd do it when you know you can't and you set up iTunes not to do it from the get-go.
Let's face it -- while everybody can take a very altruistic stance, we still live in a capitalistic society where people buy and sell goods and services.
Now this really won't get anywhere unless those who control the music (the records labels and some artists directly, sort of) decide that they can live with a smaller price for each song sold.
But it wasn't too long ago (well, maybe it has been a few years) that a single (but with a B-side) sold for 79 cents (so 40 cents a tune -- but maybe you didn't want that second song). So is 99 cents a song really that bad? (And even less bad a low low Wal-Mart?)
I'd be more juiced if CDs were priced at the same level for downloads as the physical CD -- will that day ever come?
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Not too surprised, but happy to hear about the big boy of retailing, Wal-Mart, extend its reach into our homes by now offering video downloads of movies and TV shows through a partnership with all six of the major Hollywood studios (20th Century Fox, Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, Sony and Universal) to sell digital movies and television shows on its Web site.
Here's the link to the site: www.walmart.com/videodownloads.
(For more on the announcement, click here and for more on "first to offer from all six studios" go here.)
Now I won't say that this has other similar sites, such as iTunes, quaking in their boots, but the Big W does sell a lot of videos in their stores so why wouldn't they assume that the Wal-Mart buyinig public -- once they have their broadbands in place -- won't get into streaming video like they get into streaming into the big box retailer for all of those low, low prices?
Course it's only a Beta site now -- and could use some work ... 
On the other hand, that low pricing pressure -- if it extends to the Hollywood offerings -- can only mean a few more greenbacks in all of our pockets.
Now won't that be nice ... 
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Apple Inc. (aka Apple Computer) and Apple Corp. (aka The Beatles) have worked out their long, long, long dispute about who owns the Apple trademark.
Now a glimpse of the details of the deal can be seen here, but all we really care about is when is some of that vast trove of great music going to be made available for download — like via iTunes?
Now that love is in the air, wouldn’t it be nice if Valentine’s Day was the day the dam broke? Nice idea …
We’ll keep it tuned …
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