Admission Tickets as Text Messages 244
lee1 writes to tell us that InfoWorld is reporting that Smartmachine and their partner Skidata have developed a new way to allow customers to purchase and receive tickets to events. The new ticketing system allows users to "have a ticket sent to their mobile phone via SMS (Short Message Service) in the form of a 2D (two-dimensional) bar code. At the gate, they slide their mobile phone display showing the bar code by a bar code reader." The new technology also claims to help combat the counterfeit, pilferage, and repeat use that can be such a problem for paper tickets.
Already in use for years... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Plan B (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Combat counterfeit? (Score:1, Informative)
Are those SMS? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Old news in Korea (Score:3, Informative)
Cultural tip for those from outside the US: here, it is extremely rare for movie showings to have assigned seating. In almost all cases, moviegoers are welcome to sit in any free seat in the theater once they have been admitted.
Other types of events -- sports, theater, classical music -- most often DO have assigned seats. Popular music concerts are split: often there will be reserved seating and unreserved standing room in different parts of the vanue at the same event.
Re:Like public transport in finland (Score:3, Informative)
...except that the public transport SMS tickets in Helsinki are normal textual messages, not specialized image barcodes, like in the article.
Re:Are those SMS? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Plan B (Score:3, Informative)
I seriously doubt that the bar codes would be completely random numbers.