Andre Yoskowitz
16 Dec 2007 18:37
Sony has announced it has made five partnerships with music download services across Europe including HMV in the UK, FNAC Music in France, Musicload in Germany, Terra Pixbox in Spain and Planet Music in the Netherlands.
The partnerships will mean Walkman MP3 player users will be offered 3 months' free trials for "unlimited" music subscriptions from those services.
“These exclusive partnerships confirm Sony’s commitment to supporting an open standard with Windows Media Technology”, said Jeffry van Ede, Vice President Sony Audio Marketing Europe.
The announcement continues the strategy Sony has been following for months now in which the company is moving towards support of an open platform and include Windows Media Technology on its MP3 players.
Source:
pocketlint