The summer flick “Transformers 2,” most agreed, was terrible. So naturally, one wonders: how much better would the movie be playing on the 2.6-inch screen of a mobile phone?
On Tuesday, mSpot, a five-year-old mobile entertainment company based in Palo Alto, Calif., will resolve that pressing question with a new service making full-length feature movies available on demand to 40 million cellphone subscribers. Owners of 30 different high-end phones, including the iPhone, Palm Pre, BlackBerry Tour and Storm, on all four wireless carriers, will now be able to enter m.mSpot.com into their phone browser for the pleasure of streaming what the company promises will be an expanding roster of films.
The company says it has signed deals with Paramount Studios, Universal Pictures and the Weinstein Company. It also says it is in talks with the other major studios. Movies will be available a few weeks after they become available on DVD, just as the pay-per-view movies are.
The rental charge is $4.99 per film. The amount of time you have to view the film varies by film and studio. At the present time, the service is only available in the U.S.
We wonder when services that offer downloadable digital movies to library patrons will begin doing the same thing. It was just a few weeks ago when we posted the Overdrive will begin offering over the air downloads of digital content with an iPhone app is in the works.
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