Concert tickets becoming a dinosaur?

[CShine]

The days of camping out overnight for a concert ticket are numbered. First came internet bookings, then last week in Sydney, fans of Melbourne rockers Jet were given the option of receiving their tickets in the form of a bar code sent by SMS to their mobile phones.

According to the company that provided the technology, Aura Digital, the so-called Mobi-ticket is a world first. About 20 per cent of patrons who attended the three sell-out concerts at Sydney's Metro nightclub received their tickets this way.

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As with Qantas, which is now charging an extra $55 for paper tickets in its efforts to phase them out, internet companies such as Moshtix, Itickets and Greentix are replacing the physical ticket by putting patrons' names at the door of various Sydney venues and selling special concert cards that are swiped on entry.

Are the days of the paper ticket over?

"We listened closely to the feedback from patrons at the concerts and it confirmed that Australians are ready to embrace mobile barcode ticketing," said Aura Digital's Adam Dunne.

On its website, Moshtix claims that "digital ticket distribution is here and the paper ticket is history!"

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120116995.html