Boston, Sept 25: Dell Inc. chief executive Michael Dell said on Wednesday that it has been talking to media companies in order to make it easier to listen to music and watch video on their PCs. "We've been participating a lot in working groups to get agreements with the content owners and the artists. We're going to do some things with music and I think there's opportunity in movies," Dell said at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT on Wednesday.
Dell did not specify the companies to which he was talking.
His comments come a day before Dell is expected to announce a push that takes the No. 1 personal computer company deeper into the consumer's home with new digital products.
Music and film companies are concerned about computer users sharing their content over the Internet on such services as Kazaa, which they say infringes on their copyrights.
Dell is due to hold a conference call on Thursday about the company's consumer electronics strategy.
An analyst said earlier this week that the announcement might include a digital music player, flat-panel television sets and a new handheld computer. Dell declined after the session to comment on the specific products.
Dell and other PC companies have been pushing further into the consumer electronics market amid stiff competition in the computer sector. For example, Apple Computer Inc. has launched the iPod music player and Gateway Inc. now sells big-screen televisions. Bureau Report