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Author Topic: 'Shawshank' on your phone Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-03-2005 12:31 PM                        I found this on the Internet Movie Database today: 'Shawshank' On Your Phone The Shawshank Redemption has become the first full-length movie to be released for new mobile phones that can accept memory cards. The movie, priced at about $32 for the mobile-phone version, went on sale in the U.K. today (Monday). So does that mean you watch the movie on your phone? Or can you transfer it somehow into your computer to make a DVD of it? If it's to watch on the phone, I can't imagine anything more boring or stupid.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Fuentes Mmmm, Dr. Pepper! Posts: 1168 From: Corpus Christi, TX United States Registered: Jan 2004 posted 05-03-2005 12:33 PM                     Why couldnt it be a good movie?? Something like Anchorman!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 05-03-2005 12:48 PM                     Oh, Big Frickin Deal. I used my FAIR RIGHTS to copy several movies onto a memory card for my N-Gage more than a year ago. It was a cool concept, but I never made it more than a few minutes in due to the uninspiring small screen. Now, movies on my Tapwave Zodiac on the other hand, are awsome. But I certainly wouldn't pay for a zodiac only movie like those PSP toting prebuscent kids.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-03-2005 01:03 PM                        Where can I get my scope phone? I though TV was the lowest common denominator. Now there's an even lower one, cellphones. Ain't technology great?  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-03-2005 05:21 PM                     $32 for "Shawshank Redemption"? On a f**king cellphone!? You really gotta be kidding me. I thought Sony's idea of a proprietary disc format in their PSP gaming device was stupid from the fact the movie discs are not standard DVD format. This cellphone thing is even more stupid. You're paying $32 to watch a movie with a very low resolution picture, and likely very crappy sound. This is just another one of the things to list on how mobile phone companies are scamming the hell out of the public.  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 05-03-2005 06:06 PM                        if they want this idea to fly, then they should have started with pok'e'mon movies. I wanna watch movies on my iPod: at least it would have stereo sound...  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 05-03-2005 06:12 PM                        So how do you watch AND listen at the same time? You have to look at the screen to watch it. And you have to hold the tippy top of the phone to your ear (I hate cell phones like that) to listen to it. The reason they are doing this and the reason it is $32 is because they know that people who have cell phones are likely to be morons and will happily accept crappy quality and high prices just for novelty's sake.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-03-2005 06:27 PM                     Now, not only will people try to talk on their cell phones while driving, they will watch movies as well. <<CRASH>> It is only a matter of time before one of those "multi-taskers" goes to a theater to see a movie, while, at the same time, watching another movie on his cell phone.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 05-03-2005 08:13 PM                     I saw a mobile phone commercial last night that was selling the capability of watching TV on a cellphone. The announcer said, "you're watching TV of a guy watching TV...now that's good TV." What would be good TV is one of these cellphone spokespeople getting locked in at the bottom of a grain elevator and then having the silo filled with obsolete phones. Someone could be at the top calling out, "can you hear me now?" When there's nothing but dead silence coming from the tons of debris, then he could say, "good." I might consider tuning into that version of "reality TV."  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-03-2005 08:20 PM                  quote: Joe Redifer ...the reason it is $32 is because they know that people who have cell phones are likely to be morons... Ya know Joe, I totally agree and am thinking that I'm in the wrong biz. All this time I thought making pornos was very lucrative, I guess I was wrong! I could make many more $$$ by following the P.T Barnum philosophy... "there's a sucker born every minute"... (NO pun intended!) BTW: I hear the George is going to offer an ALL DIGITAL cell phone version of Star Wars for $246.78 an episode...  |  IP: Logged Brian Michael Weidemann Expert cat molester Posts: 944 From: Costa Mesa, CA United States Registered: Feb 2004 posted 05-04-2005 12:54 AM                        Yeah, I heard that too, Phil! In fact, he's saved some extended footage that's ONLY going to be available for the phone version. That must be what he meant when he said by Episode III, the only way to see it was going to be digital. He was busy working out the deals with Cingular and Verizon.  |  IP: Logged Bruce Hansen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 847 From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-04-2005 05:19 PM                     If the movie is on a memory card, and I would not think there is any sort of descrambling system in the phone, then the movie is not "protected", and could easily be downloaded on to a computer, and then onto the web. Get ready for more whining from the studios.  |  IP: Logged

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