May 10, 2004
Sony Music-Tech Makes Me Wanna Retch
Joe Gratz gives a nice update on Sony’s stupidity, including its new Sony Connect music service and iPod-like device. Apparently, Sony’s hard drive player cannot play MP3s, WMA and (of course) Apple FairPlay-locked AAC. It only plays Sony’s proprietary ATRAC3 format; if it’s like Sony’s MiniDisc players, forcing consumers to convert to ATRAC3 also forces them to accept certain DRM restrictions. In related news, the Washington Post and New York Times both deemed Connect embarassing, noting its poor interface, proprietary DRM format and codec, copying restrictions … too many to count. I’ve been over this before (see earlier rant on Sony Connect) in some detail. How could Sony not have learned from the numerous music services that have come before it?
Filed by Derek Slater at 7:36 pm under General news
6 Comments
I hear you… I recently spent about 5 hours trying to get audio of an interview off of a MiniDisc… it’s amazing Sony makes any money off of its stuff at all.
NOT to mention Sony’s digital video format for microDV recording (.MMV) which is a pointless proprietary version of MPEG-2 that the majority of video editing programs don’t recognize….
A more in-depth rant here–
http://digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com/entry/9772335133590878/
“Sony Gets Stupider”
It’s worse than that. I wrote about this in >February 2000<, when I first picked up a Sony Music Clip. Note the similarities.
http://www.someoftheanswers.com/answers/entertainment/fuckingsony.html
It’s worse than that. I wrote about this in >February 2000<, when I first picked up a Sony Music Clip. Note the similarities.
http://www.someoftheanswers.com/answers/entertainment/fuckingsony.html
yeah… my Grandmother got one of these things for my Son last Christmas. After a few hours of hairpulling we just returned it, no questions asked.
What really bugged me was that the packaging labeled it as an mp3 player. The interface is so aweful that it takes you a while to figure out just how bad it sucks.