Today's meet-up of the
Utah Tech Spotlight featured local company
MediaPort. Held on the upper floor of the Bohemian, drinks food and fun were had by all. The featured company MediaPort provides a kiosk based digital media delivery system. You can purchase and download your media to any mobile device or your purchase can be saved on a CD. According to the presenter, sorry I can't remember his name, MediaPorts digital media costs about 38% less than what you can buy at Wal-Mart. I assumed he meant less than physical disks. It's hard to get much less than $0.88 per track.
As with any digital media discussion DRM was a topic discussed. It seems the DRM is delayed; meaning you can download the media to your device and immediately start using it, but once you sync to a PC the DRM is written to the local disk. Unfortunately they don't support any Apple products. Not their fault of course, but does eliminate 100 million portable music devices. If they could work out a deal with Apple they would have an exploding business.
Some of the people I recall seeing at the meet-up were
Jason Alba,
Matthew Reinbold, Steve Spencer, a few more from Twelve Horses, several from Media Port, a guy from a company called
BounceBase.com, sounded interesting. I also met another young guy whose company is BlastHosting.
Here is a
link to a few pics (sorry the quality sucks, next time I'm using the digital cam not the phone).
Thanks again to Steve Spencer of
Twelve Horses for putting this together and the other sponsors,
UTC and
EO.
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