Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!trsoft.demon.co.uk!ARoss From: Tony Ross Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound Subject: Re: mp3 on yaroze.... Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:37:19 +0000 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: <7v2toh$6s1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v4171$6kf1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <7v7481$f4p1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <38197cd9.204929122@news.playstation.co.uk> <7vbsj3$7l1@chuka.playstation.co.uk> <382360c0.221043974@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: trsoft.demon.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike (32) Version 4.01 In article <382360c0.221043974@news.playstation.co.uk>, Steven Osman writes >On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 15:22:01 +0000, Tony Ross > wrote: >If you required people burned them to CD, you're already eliminating >98% of your potential customers. Of the 2% who would spend money on a And 15 years ago the record companies would have been mad to put stuff out on CD when only a few % had the players or minidisc now with only a few % of households having the player. Markets like this are CREATED. Those without CDR burners have the option of having the disc made-up for them (anyone using Photo CD has to do this). Mp3s could also appear as samplers on cover disks on various types of magazine whilst still leaving loads of room for the other stuff. >CDR, 50% are probably techno-freaks and would buy something cool and >portable like a diamond rio. Now you're left with 1% of the would-be The diamond RIO is good but nothing special but if ANY CD or Minidisc system started having the ability to play mp3 from a disc then RIO type devices would die quickly. >mp3 market. > >Hope you make a tonne of profit on each one! If you start the new market then you will get most of the profit if it explodes (OR you could lose a bit of development money when you got your coding team to write a player which nobody uses but that's just business). SONY are really pushing the boat out on the new console and are going to struggle to bring it to market at a competitive price point. The type of add-ons that I am talking about would be relatively inexpensive but they have real potential. All new formats have to start somewhere! 15 years ago most of my mates could not understand why I wanted a thing called a CD player when you could hardly get any music for it and it probably would not catch on or 10 years ago why I wanted a business type PC in my home and 7 years ago they again wondered why I wanted access to something called the Internet. Give me some credit mate! This is not intended as part of any type of flame war. I am just answering some of your points. All the best! -- Tony