Ecast Installs 3,000th Jukebox

Source: Play Meter

Ecast Inc., which owns and operates a Location-Based Broadband Entertainment NetworkTM that combines a proprietary digital media delivery platform, a US-wide broadband network, and pay-per-use devices such as digital jukeboxes that run on Microsoft Windows XP Embedded, has installed its 3,000th digital downloading jukebox at the Beacon Hill Pub, a Boston, Mass., tavern operated by Melo-Tone Vending, a leading New England route operator for more than 50 years.

Ecast powers a variety of digital-downloading jukeboxes built to the company's specifications by third party manufacturers including Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp., a company that has been building jukeboxes for over 70 years and NSM Music Inc, a European pioneer in digital jukeboxes.  Windows XP Embedded has enabled these manufacturing partners to develop reliable devices, each with multiple components and applications, using standard drivers, greatly reducing the time to market for these products. 

The 3,000th jukebox, a compact Wall-Rock model built by Rock-Ola Mfg. Corp, has access to Ecast's enormous music catalog, available via the Internet on the company's secure Location-Based Broadband Entertainment Network. Because they are enabled by broadband, Ecast-powered jukeboxes are the only commercial downloading jukeboxes that can deliver any of the company's 150,000 songs on-demand.  By introducing unprecedented choice to listeners, and by delivering the most reliable digital jukebox device with the support of Microsoft Windows(r) XP Embedded, Ecast has significantly increased cashbox earnings by more than 150 percent on average over CD jukeboxes.  Ecast has installed broadband and the industry's top earning jukeboxes in food and beverage service locations throughout all 50 U.S. states, giving the company and its content partners access to a national audience of listeners.