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September 2008 The Independent Voice Of The Coin-Op Industry
CONTENTS 3
CALENDAR 4
DIGITAL
INDUSTRY NEWS 6–20
NOSTALGIA
Sound Leisure bring the LEGAL ROUND-UP 22–23
golden age to
Digital Jukeboxes
INTERNATIONAL NEWS ASIA 24
7
INTERNATIONAL NEWS USA 25
EUROPEAN NEWS SPAIN 26
www.soundleisure.com
www.soundnet.net
THE LATEST NEWS, VIEWS AND FEATURES FROM THE COIN-OP INDUSTRY
EUROPEAN NEWS ITALY 27-28
COVER STORY
EUROPEAN NEWS IRELAND 29
EUROPEAN NEWS GREECE 30-31
Turn to page 37,
MUSIC 33–38
read how Sound
COVER STORY 37
Leisure has put the
PRODUCT FOCUS 39–49
golden age into THE USUAL SUSPECTS 52-53
Digital Jukeboxes
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Comment
M
obile working is one of those
terms we have bandied about for
years.
Of course, we have said, you can buy
Editor
these machines and check on the data
wherever you are in the world. Or, in
Stephanie Norbury
my case - of course I can send you
Journal Manager
those pages from my laptop in France.
Werner Jazdziewski
The reality has often been not quite as easy as it sounds.
Contributors My first year here in France saw me trying to edit Euroslot 34
John Coates on a dial-up connection as the local Mairie had refused to
Antonio Ingles allow broadband cabling. You can only imagine the
Maurizio Brodo
frustration of trying to download a 10MB image of a note
Sharon Harris
acceptor only to have the connection fail one hour in...
Publication Manager
Now, I use a 3G dongle when I am not at my desk and I
Paul Ryder
find it an amazing help. I am writing this on a family holiday
Managing Director with the kids screaming downstairs - true mobile working. I
Parvez Kayani note with interest that 3G is the way forward for some of
Published by:
the companies we interviewed for this month’s music
Datateam Publishing Ltd,
feature. It means that jukeboxes can now be moved from
London Road, Maidstone, one site to another and be profiled and updated with music
Kent ME16 8LY from a remote source. Just incredible use of technology
Tel: 01622 687031
that once again shows how the jukebox above almost any
Fax: 01622 757646
other machine has moved with the times.
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