Chris and I just finished getting caught up with Alias after watching the first four episodes of season 4. After I plug the Dish Network PVR box back into the TV, VH1 is playing I Love the 90s Part Deux. During a commercial break, VH1 shamelessly plugs its ringtones service. Of course, I had to go look.
It appears that VH1 offers polyphonic and digital ringtones. Each ringtone is $1.99, and I’m pretty sure that none exceed 30 seconds in length. I’m sure someone out there has written or discussed this already, but I’ve gotta vent my frustration over what is obviously a highly overpriced market.
When I’m on iTunes Music Store, I don’t mind paying the 99¢ for a full song. However, I am really peeved about the 99¢ to $1.99 that I have to pay for some five second clip of a song to play on my phone when someone rings. What’s worse, if I don’t feel like the short digital clip, I can always get some horrendous muzak version of a pop song.
Why is it people still put up with these outrageously high prices for crappy sound clips? I just wish I had some sort of utility to convert a chunk of one of my thousands of MP3s into a format that my phone will play as a ringtone.
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