With most of the music industry already emigrating to the Internet, the younger generation are no strangers to downloading their favourite tracks. Many new bands are making use of YouTube, the blogosphere and other web-based marketing to promote themselves. An entertainment touch screen kiosk draws on this new way of distributing music and other entertainment in digital form, expands on the idea and allows users to not only download music to their Ipod, MP3 player PDA or USB memory stick, but also allows users to download movies and games too.

The touchscreen kiosks have multimedia touch screen technology, and you are able to browse the downloadable items and watch trailers, listen to excerpts of music tracks, or watch a demo of the game. The kiosk's information also draws feeds of reviews to display, so the user can see what other people thought of the item.

The entertainment download kiosks are networked so that one main machine stores all of the downloadable material. Multiple kiosks can then be located around the shop or shopping centre, and drag all of the relevant information from the main machine as it is called from a kiosk.

The beauty of the entertainment download kiosk is that it is a self-service kiosk with no staff required, so is really cost effective.

The kiosks is space saving. Usually this amount of stock needs to be kept in a sizeable shop, however this technology means that the same quantity of stock is now kept in a very reduced space.

Russ Crupnick, an NPD senior industry analyst said; "consumers still have a huge appetite for songs, as the amount of money customers are spending on downloads has risen from an average of $33 a year to $50 a year." Of course these figures are based on Internet download sales. However with a download kiosk available in shopping centres and in retail shops, the high street could take a slice of the downloading action.

Furthermore the kiosks have bespoke fascias, so they can bear any logo or branding that your company already has. Additionally the kiosks can be multi-faced with up to four screens, which is ideal for a busy location where you would expect numerous users wanting to access the kiosks. By using a dual screen music download kiosk one screen is handling the user transaction whilst the upper screen can be showing advertising.

Music download kiosks can also be used for downloaded ring tones, desktop images and styles for mobile devices and phones. Customers could also create their own mixes using a selection of dance music which gets mixed using their preferences.

The music or other file can be downloaded to an MP3 player or mobile phone using a USB connection, WLAN or Bluetooth depending on user preference.