[Tech] Sony Connect: (yet another) online music service da Sony

Anche la giapponese Sony entra nel mercato della musica online, e lo fa con Sony Connect, un servizio di download di brani musicali forte di 500.000 titoli provenienti dalle maggiori etichette discografiche mondiali:

The service, dubbed Sony Connect, offers more than 500,000 tracks from artists on major and independent labels. Like Napster (news - web sites) 2.0 and the iTunes Music Store from Apple Computer Inc., Sony Connect sells individual tracks starting at 99 cents and full album downloads beginning at $9.99.



Sony's entry into the online music market comes more than a year since the launch of iTunes and months behind about a dozen other pay music sites and subscription services. Like Apple, which used its online music sales as way to drive sales of its iPod digital players, Sony hopes to turn a profit for its own array of audio players.



But doing so will depend largely on whether Sony can draw music fans who have not already invested in iPods or other music players — which cannot play song files in Sony's ATRAC3 format — to buy its own brand of audio devices.

Fonte: Yahoo! News.