Comments on: MTV, Microsoft band together for music service

With help of software giant, music TV network readies launch of iTunes rival, two years or more in the making.

[Rolndubbs]

Why?

People still watch MTV?

[SqlserverCode]

Most people

Most people who watch MTV are young, it is a fact that most young people don?t pay for music. They either don?t have the money or don?t feel like they have to if they can get it for free It will be interesting to see if MS + MTV will pull this off

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[ccisat1dxj]

How many music subscription choices can there be?

Will one company dominate this space?

[UntoldDreams]

as many...

Apparently... the answer is "As many subscription choices as it takes to defeat Apple Computer".

[darrius3365]

Re:

Yeah,

Since Apple has so much market share and there are so many companies fighting for it, I don't think one opposing company will come out on top. This will eventually become a "battle of the media formats".

Sony (ATRAC) vs. Apple (AAC) vs. Microsoft (WMA)

I don't see much difference between the WMA subscription services. I think it is just a matter of what software you prefer best. I believe they all pretty much have the same amount of content.

I prefer MSN's music service overall. (The old) Rhapsody and Napster were unstable and slow to launch on my machine. MSN's service is integrated into WMP 10 (which is my preferred media player).

[Earl Benser]

Somehow....

... the irony of MTV and MS together trying to develop a quality
product seems quite fitting.

[Llib Setag]

Does MTV still play music videos?

Remember the good ol' days when MTV stood for Music TeleVision? When MTV play a creative broad spectrum of music videos from many artists all day long? Maybe here & there an interview with a band or Headline Music News...

Those days are long gone. Today it's formulaic bands with rubber stamped videos that dare not push the envelope with any sort of creative videography, by the same formula clone bands mass produced by the music conglomerates that you see over & over & over....
Most of the time it's commercials & TV Shows "Real World" etc....

MSMTV just what we need...NOT!

[paulsecic]

MTV=

Crap.

[bobj123]

MTV = BET... sad

I don't believe anyone watches MTV for music anymore, the public has shifted toward FuseTV and VH1, while those embracing RAP have held true to MTV

[Goose]

Hurray...

I can finaly watch Real World on my computer!!!

[Thunder Johny]

Real World

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[stanshih]

Plays For Sure*

-pinch nose as you read this-
The combination of the world's largest software company and
the world's largest hip TV channel will allow URGE to achieve a
unique synergy. Combining MTV's brand recognition among
12-22 year olds and Microsoft's superior Plays For Sure DRM
technology will yield massive market penetration into the tween
and teen market. URGE will leverage MTV's presence in teen
bedrooms and Plays For Sure will leverage Microsoft, Samsung,
Dell, and Creative's combined marketing dollars and expertise.
In summary, Microsoft and MTV will go down in music history as
a major success on the order of Michael Jackson and Paul
McCartney's Ebony and Ivory...

* Except for the 80% of you using iTunes

[open-mind]

Urge? Should have called it "Purge".

purge (pûrj)
v. purged, purg·ing, purg·es

To cause evacuation of the bowels.
n.
The act or process of purging.
Something that purges, especially a medicinal purgative.


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