What would you think about going to a shop, selecting your favorite tracks, have them burned on a CD, pay $ 3.50 with taxes, artist fees, labels and covers included and walk happily from the store? Sounds to good to be true, you want to know the catch? Well the only catch is that you will have to move to Brasil. The record company Kviar has released a Kiosk that allows you to select your favorite songs, burn them to a CD (perfectly legal) and pay only $ 3.50 for all that.
The whole process takes only up to 7 minutes and the resulting CD is a regular audio CD than can be listened in the car, stereo, computer, etc. Each CD can have up to 74 minutes, which amounts to more or less up to 15 regular tracks. Kviar expects to charge R,00 per CD, (more or less US,50), including the cover, media, and the copyrights and taxes due. |
The company expects to have more kiosks available in shopping centers, CD stores, coffee stores, showrooms, etc. This system uses US company Immediatek's "NetBurn" technology, which creates on-the-fly an executable with the chosen songs and CD cover. The user then inserts a blank CD in the CD recorder and in a matter of minutes the CD is ready, which can be listened to in any CD player. Kviar is closing deals with other labels to distribute their music by this system, and now it will extend this partnerships to the CD burning kiosks as well.
Source: Kviar.com
