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HMV, OD2 sued over download patent
News A small US company has sued the HMV Group and online music distributor OD2 over a far-reaching European and US patent that it claims covers a broad range of Internet downloads. The latest suits allege that OD2 and HMV, which collaborate on a music...
[September 4, 2003, 14:00]
HMV Brings Any Time, Easy-to-Use Digital Downloads Service to Music Lovers
White Papers HMV is the largest music retailer in the United Kingdom, with more than 200 stores and a successful online store - www.hmv.co.uk. HMV was interested in taking advantage of the growth in digital downloading as a music and entertainment channel and...
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
HMV, OD2 sued over download patent
Talkback And this process is so revolutionary and unique in what manner? In software engineering, we're taught to define "what" has to be done; to synthesise the conditions and requirements for a general problem.
[September 4, 2003, 15:20]
Waterstone's closes book on Amazon
News The HMV-owned book chain has used Amazon as its online channel since 2001, which meant it was effectively redirecting potential customers to Amazon. The market was very undeveloped [five years ago]," said HMV Group spokesman Paul Barker on Wednesday.
[May 10, 2006, 13:10]
It might be 2008, but guess who's stuck in 1988? DVD retailers! Yay!
Blog Comment I know a few people working for HMV and the problem seems to be that management are too tight to put these things on all of the boxes, so the; 'dozy neds' behind the till do sometimes miss the ones that are 'protected'.
[January 8, 2008, 11:40]
GameCube launches in Europe
News Stores, including the London branch of HMV, opened their doors to allow Nintendo-hungry gamers - most of them starved of Nintendo console software for well over a year - to get their hands on GameCube consoles at the earliest possible opportunity.
[May 3, 2002, 16:40]
Are you paying too much for DVD movies?
News DVD movies started to appear in the U.K.in May 1998, with Virgin and HMV the first to stock titles. An HMV spokesman denied the store was lacklustre about the new technology. A DVD disc bought from HMV now retails at around £16, a drop of around £4...
[May 14, 1999, 11:57]
It might be 2008, but guess who's stuck in 1988? DVD retailers! Yay!
Blog I'm in HMV. Clueless. Clueless. Clueless. I'm looking to buy, at retail, actual physical product. Films. On DVD. You may remember this ancestral custom or rite (hence the saying, the custom-er is always rite), which involves handing over tokens in...
[January 2, 2008, 19:25]
High-street music stores may tune into Net music
News The open standards technology used in the computer giant's Madison Project will be one of the technologies considered for the downloading of tracks from HMV's Web site. In addition to a network of more than 100 UK stores, HMV also has a stall in...
[February 15, 1999, 15:11]
'Unplayable' CDs spark French investigation
Talkback I recently took a EMI CD back to HMV cause it wouldn't play on my car CD player (pretty much the only device I play CD's on) and had to argue with the manager for several minutes until he finally admitted I deserved a refund.
[August 27, 2004, 10:25]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog HMV on Oxford Street will be open at midnight tonight to press the first precious black lozenges into the hands of the desperate, and the BBC want to film a quick segment with me opining about What It All Means.
[September 2, 2005, 19:05]
Music formats head down proprietary lines
Talkback The market is too lucrative now, theirs more pirates than HMV stores! Where theirs a will there’s a way! Piracy is unstoppable even if Sony and apple develop new technology to fight back, the ever-resourceful pirate will decode it.
[July 23, 2004, 16:23]
Windows song site debuts in UK
Talkback Or, I can go to hmv.co.uk and buy it for £6.99 - Come on Microsoft/Tiscali/whoever - if you want this downloadable music thing to catch on you need to at least make it slightly competitive. Wow - Now I can download All About Eve's "Scarlet and...
[August 15, 2003, 11:02]
Amazon.com implicated in CD-import row
Talkback The UK recording industry is operating an illegal cartel with the big retail chains, Virgin, HMV, etc. Disgraceful. Neither can understand the principle of free trade, and are simply running scared as they see their ridiculous profit margins, and...
[February 5, 2004, 9:49]
The game's up for Vista
Blog I got an interesting invite last night to the media launch of a dedicated gaming centre housed in an HMV store in central London. Resplendent with around 80 Quad core PCs and Dual Core notebooks, Gamebase is every school-boy's dream, and actually...
[May 16, 2008, 14:52]
Startup Spotlight: Donate with Free2give
News The fundraising site hopes to encourage online shoppers to buy their Amazon book or HMV video game through free2give.co.uk, so that a percentage of the purchase can be given to charity. Charity site Free2give launched last week in attempt to rescue...
[October 9, 2000, 10:27]
Fight ends over European music downloads
News Last October, the small company sued a European division of Microsoft, along with the HMV Group, Internet service provider Tiscali and digital music company On Demand Distribution (OD2), charging them with violation of a patent that covers the...
[January 21, 2004, 13:30]
Dixons hobbling DVD format?
News Jean-Luc Renaud, editor of UK newsletter, DVD Intelligence, agrees with Welsh saying the situation is unique to the UK with stores like Dixons, Virgin Megastores and HMV, the first to sell DVD, "scaring consumers" with inflated pricing.
[December 2, 1998, 10:43]
Mail Room
News Nobody wants to go to an online music site that has only four artists, not when you can walk into HMV and find thousands. Want to add some news of your own? Want to ask a question? Send your comments to The Mailroom
[February 11, 1999, 14:32]
Microsoft to delete Sony DRM 'rootkit'
Talkback I had ordered a full multimedia center made by them.including a PC desktop and laptop a 42" LCD TV sound system DVD burner/player when the delivery came I sent them back and asked for my refund.they would not give me one at first till I told them...
[November 13, 2005, 22:37]
