Makayama releases DVD to Smartphone movie software

invaders used our news submit to tell us about the release of some software that will let you put an entire DVD movie on a 128 Mb flashcard. Then, just pop it in to your smartphone and enjoy the show in full stereo glory. We reported on this a while back and it seems odd to be able to store that much on such a small memory footprint. But, hey, what do I know? Now, If I just had a Smartphone.

Dutch software company Makayama today released 'DVD to Mobile (Smartphone Edition)'. This software lets users convert a DVD to a Smartphone and watch it in great quality, with stereo sound and in full screen landscape mode. A memorycard as small as 128 Mb is sufficient to store a full length feature film. Users can watch their DVDs on the go, on any Windows Mobile-based Smartphone, such as the Orange SPV-series, from a postage stamp size memory card. The software installs an encoding package on a PC with Windows XP, and a free player on the mobile phone. Users insert a DVD in the drive of their PC and with only two clicks, the software turns it into a super small movie file, which will play on the provided mediaplayer.The headset or the built-in speaker can be used to listen to the sound. Subtitled and foreign language DVDs are also supported. Feature films look crisp and sharp on the phone and still fit on a relatively small Secure Digital card.

Those of us running XP can download a trial version for testing purposes. The movies will run on the
following phones:

ORANGE SPV E100/E200 C500
MOTOROLA A1000 MPX100 MPX200 MPX220
MITAC
8380 8390
QTEK 7070, 8080
SAMSUNG I600
ASUS AGP-60
COMPAL
AR-11
SIERRA WIRELESS VOQ
SAGEM MY S-7
HTC i-MATE

The Symbian (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) Edition will be available soon.

Let's hope
some of us with these type devices give it a try and let us know how it performs. It would be very interesting to hear some critiques of this product. They have a special introductory price of US$ 19.99

Source: Makayama