Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 21 November 2007 08:21 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 20 November 2007 16:27 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> SyncTV begins beta television download service
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| SyncTV says its service is completely based on open standards, so it
>>>>>| works with Windows PCs, Macs and Linux PCs, and in the future it will
>>>>>| also work on TVs and portable players.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/11/19/synctv/index.php
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Another DRM-based business model. Can't see it.
>>>
>>> Miro (formerly Democracy Player) 1.0 was released days ago as an open
>>> source, DRM-free Joost alternative. There's also SongBird on its way and
>>> AmaroK is evolving to become an online store that is DRM-free as far as I
>>> know.
>>>
>>
>> These look much more like the future to me. I think the days of the
>> "record" industry ruling the roost are over. Consider the Led Zep,
>> supported by Foreigner Concert, at the O2. 1,000,000 requests for
>> tickets using a more or less tout-proof system, with only 20,000
>> seats available.
>>
>> Consider it - this means that one person in 60 tried to get a ticket
>> for the concert, and there were probably a lot of folk like myself and
>> Mrs Mark who would've gone had we thought that there was any possibility
>> of getting a ticket.
>>
>> The current generation of Cabaret/POP acts are awful, talentless,
>> unimaginative, passionless, unmusical, predictable handbag pop with
>> soft-porn videos to fool the brain into thinking that the music was
>> good. It wasn't...
>>
>> Still, the same generation drink lager and "magners" because the
>> marketing man tells them to, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised
>> :-). Not that I've anything against cider, I actually quite like it,
>> but not with ice (yuk), and not at 4 quid a pint.
>
> Marketers say that the more expensive it is, the better it becomes (and your
> friends, girls included, will be overly impressed).
>
To paraphrase Christine Keeler, they would say that, wouldn't they?
Anyway, if some prospective GF were impressed by buying expensive
zoider, I'd find another prospective GF :-)
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