HMV and Virgin Launch Rival Download Services in UK

Finally, some good homegrown competition in the UK digital music market, though not sure if this will have any major effect: UK’s biggest record stores, HMV and Virgin, are launch their own download services in the next few days.

HMV Digital goes live on Monday September 5; however, rival Virgin is attempting to steal a march on HMV by launching its Virgin Digital service on Friday.

Virgin: includes a digital music store, music club subscription service, streaming radio and management tools for MP3 players..it is working with MusicNet.

HMV: HMV Digital has cost

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