TMV: A music lover’s digital music paradise

In our fast-paced society filled with diverse and evolving preferences and trends, products, services and technologies need to continuously adapt to the dynamic changes of the market and create fresh features for consumers to look forward to and for them to remain at the forefront.

The music market, no less, is composed of some of the most discriminating, meticulous and demanding individuals, who prefer that their music be delivered with utmost quality, flexibility, variety and ease of use. Their music experience must include total control of their music environment and their products must blend with their lifestyle, whether at home or in the office, and not the other way around.

Bambi Fonacier, a certified music enthusiast himself, is one who desires that kind of control as he listens to his voluminous collection of mostly hard-to-find CDs. Having been a popular disc jockey for 18 years, a former TV host and former president of the Odyssey Music Store chain for 20 years, Bambi’s extensive music library, which grew through his years in the music industry and his deep passion for music, led him to develop a music entertainment system that would enable him to "view all his music collection instantly and enjoy listening to any album or song quickly, without turning dials, pushing so many buttons or going through the hassle of having to locate them in his stacks of CDs and loading and changing them in his CD player.

To a true-blooded music lover and audiophile like Bambi, who lived and breathed music most of his teenage to adult years, the vigor and motivation of his day came from listening to music. Daunted by the task of having to constantly go through his music library and frustrated by the lack of listening choices when he browsed through current music stores, he was driven to develop a system that would not just solve his predicament and answer his own discerning listening needs but also the needs of other music lovers.

With his background in software development, being at the helm of a software company that developed digital mobile security systems, Bambi shifted back to his music roots to invent a music software for home entertainment and business use.

Thus, Touch Music Video or TMV was born. With music listeners now flocking to digital sources, Bambi felt that the time for his new baby, TMV, has come.

TMV is the next-generation music home entertainment system and listening station. Like the iPod, MP3 player, the Windows Media Player, Musicmatch Juke Box Plus, and Media Center, which are all powerful, sophisticated and multi-functional digital audio players, TMV can claim to be the "most powerful way to experience digital music."

With a power-packed software that ingeniously combines visual appeal and exceptional functionality, a touch screen flat panel LCD monitor and a high-capacity hardware, TMV is loaded with features that can easily compete with the best digital music systems available in the market today.

Sporting an easy-to-use, innovative graphic interface that displays one’s personal CD collection, plus a wide range of on-screen buttons and select modes that requires a simple "fingertip" touch to easily choose a music genre and alphabetically search, choose and play a song or album, TMV is a strong contender to the current traditional and digital audio sources.

With TMV, create custom playlists of an unlimited number of songs and albums from one’s music library. With or without going through the Internet, uploading of audio and videoke CDs into the system is virtually a breeze. Either load personal CDs into the TMV by logging on to the TMV website or by using the TMV music uploading software program.

Burn and rip one’s TMV audio and videoke CDs and songs into a blank CD and also download music from the TMV directly into a portable MP3 player or iPod and listen to it anywhere.

TMV is also designed for optimal organization and preservation of one’s music collection where misplacing, damaging or losing CDs is no longer experienced.

Best of all, one no longer has to load and change his CDs into his CD player every time he wants to listen to music. Simply connect TMV to any sound system or karaoke system and he’s ready to play and listen to his music, review his audio and videoke CD collection and even sing to his favorite videoke tune loaded into his system – all with just a fingertip touch.

Bambi invented this feature-laden digital music system to meet the needs of music enthusiasts and collectors for instant music accessibility, ease of use and music organization.

In the past several years, the Internet has been the venue of increasingly popular transmission of containerless digital music or files in the form of MP3s (a compressed audio file format). With the advent of TMV, the Internet will no longer be the only source of music downloading for the convenient digital technology of MP3 or the iPod.

TMV owners get to enjoy "instant downloading" from their TMV system. With TMV, it only takes an average of 1.5 to two seconds to download one song/track into an iPod or MP3 player as compared to two minutes per song with Apple’s iTunes.

From the computer-savvy students and young professionals to the non-techie homebodies or entrepreneurs, TMV is an easy-to-operate system. All packed in a slim and stylish touch screen LCD monitor, it is a total music experience which can instantly access and hold one’s entire music library in style.

TMV, which is proudly Filipino, is capable of storing over 20,000 songs. Even with TMV now at the cutting-edge of technology in terms of touch screen control systems and smart "music collection management," Bambi still continues to introduce revolutionary upgrades to keep up with the advancement of digital music technology.

Copyrighted both in the Philippines and the United States, the TMV Entertainment System is available at Touch Music Video Systems Inc., Unit 1504, Annapolis Wilshire Plaza bldg., 11 Annapolis st., Greenhills, San Juan.

For inquiries or a personal product demonstration, call 726-8249, 724-5308, 0915-9007162 or 0917-4799594, or log on to www.touchmusicvideo.com.ph.