Sony Launches Mobile Movies

[admin]

It looks like movies may be coming to mobile phones as Sony Pictures Television is teaming up with AT&T to bring an actual linear TV channel to the mobile phone market. Dubbed "PIX", the mobile phone channel will host such classic films as Ghostbusters, Philadelphia, and Stand By Me. For a while now, mobile phones have had access to on-demand content and live programming via MediaFLO, or FloTV, however this is one of the first attempts at placing this type of lengthy linear programming into a mobile television channel.


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[gstarr]

I would rather watch paint dry or flies mate than watch a movie on a cell phone.

Greg

[Jack Hammer]

I think it will be big. I can see instances where I would use it (no not daily). It won't replace HT in any way shape of form. I could've used it last summer when I was in the back of my buddies car for 4 hours while he played some incredibly painfully repetitive educational program for his 2yr old daughter over and over and over...

...and then it played again.

Jack

[birdonthebeach]

I just don't get it. Maybe a music video or viral to show a friend, but I still don't get watching movies on iPods, and certainly not on a tiny crappy cell phone....

[gliz]

I think that it is gonna be a flop

[Clint DeBoer]

I dont see 'anything' mobile taking off until they allow more Wi-Fi and Internet connectivity without charging an arm and a leg. As for ful length movies - I don't think this will fly either - even if they were free.