All About Symbian - Nokia (S60) and Sony Ericsson (UIQ) smartphones unwrapped

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Old 26-10-2006, 10:04 AM
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Nokia Release Hollywood movie on MiniSD

The Press Release makes it sound of so simple. Mission Impossible 3 is now available on MiniSD (alongside the DVD release) to watch on the N93. Now the questions can start. What exactly does copy it off to your PC and use the SD card" imply? That there's no DRM on the file? There must be, as Nokia point out you can't watch it on your PC or from another memory card. What movie format is used? Or even "Why not buy just the DVD and archive it to MiniSD yourself?"

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Old 26-10-2006, 10:25 AM
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I think the explanation for the DRM is in this sentence:

"Once you have watched the movie, you can store it on your PC and enjoy the 512MB of storage for shooting pictures and video."

Presumably when you insert the movie miniSD into the N93 for the first time, it stores the IMEI number of the phone so that the file won't work on any other devices.

It's clearly a novelty though, designed to publicise the fact that you can watch full length movies on phones nowadays. It might also tie in with the whole "hollywood" image the N93's adverts have tried to push (featuring Gary Oldman of all people).

I don't think Nokia could get away with telling people they can convert a DVD because that would be breaking DRM, something that no company would want to be seen to endorse (even if their hardware such as portable music and video players are popular precisely because people do break DRM).
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A shame it'll most likely be just a novelty. If Sony PSP's format couldn't take off, I doubt miniSD movies could.
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