Sony has launched music download web sites in Britain, France and Germany, but will people want a new proprietary music format?
Sony hopes to promote its own hardware through the portal, since the songs can only be played on Sony’s hardware. Sony Europe chairman Chris Deering said that the group had already sold two million music players in Europe.
In August, Sony is to launch the NW-HD1, which is the size of a credit card and has 20 gigabytes of memory, allowing it to hold up to 13,000 songs or 900 CD disks with a battery capacity of up to 30 hours.
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