macworld.co.uk — Microsoft is about to shut down its MSN Music Store and redirect customers to the new Zune Marketplace. Microsoft has let down all the hardware vendors that support Microsoft's Plays For Sure as media from the Marketplace will only play on 1 device: the Zune.
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stealthboyNov 4, 2006
logicbus: "Why do games need to be made for a specific system?"They do seem to be porting games quite a bit these days. They just need to change from architecture to architecture, but the media resources are the same.
neozeedNov 4, 2006
Heh, and people make fun of my laser disc's!
lilrabbit129Nov 5, 2006
"MS can afford the loss of a few 2% of mac users who may have bought one"While its true that mac users are the minority (by a large margin) in terms of number of users, I think we have a disproportionate influence on the industry. Mac users are a tight knit group. Mac users have no trouble telling anyone how great (or horrible) a product is. This makes us a group you wouldn't want to ignore (in the consumer area anyway).
Closed AccountNov 5, 2006
SAN FRANCISCO (Billboard) - On Monday (November 6), Cingular Wireless will become the first U.S. operator to provide mobile access to online digital music services such as Napster, eMusic and Yahoo Music.
r3zonanceNov 5, 2006
Yes, I was wondering that too, and I'm an iPod owner.Besides, nearly all portable music players only go upto 22kHz frequency response (not to be confused with 22kHz sample rate). Add on top of that nearly all headphones used on portable players (in-ear) only go upto 22kHz frequency response, add onto that almost everyone over 20 years old cannot hear sounds about 22kHz.So as long as the low-end sound (down to about the 20Hz range) is sufficiently represented, as is the case with AAC, then there really isn't much room for manuever on the whole "sound quality" of different devices.
fknightNov 6, 2006
All I know is that before we had all of these advances in technological "progress" I was able to buy a Tape/CD, take it home, play it on my stereo, play the same media in my car, play the same media in my bedroom, play the same media at my g/f's house, and play the same media at work.Screw this, the future sucks.
mercurysquadNov 6, 2006
Either that, or you could take your iPod with you to all those places!
fknightNov 6, 2006
true true
ducksofanaheimNov 6, 2006
Those innacurate comments were by Mac users afraid of some competition ;)
tmcdiggNov 7, 2006
Umm, that sucks.. why not just make it compatible with ZUNE, Fix it, don't end it!