Wednesday, June 19, 2002
Get a big memory card - movies coming to a PPC near you!
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "NEWS" @ 12:13 PM
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992428
"Air travellers will be able to download feature films and computer games to a handheld computer using a service to be launched first at US airports this summer. Customers will be able to insert their computer's removable memory card or chip into slots in the kiosks, to download films, music, games, electronic books and newspapers. "Each location can choose what content they would like," says a spokesman for nREACH, the US company behind the idea."
They are figuring 1MB per minute of movie time, so a 2 hr movie might fit on a 128MB memory card, which we all know only has 122MB of usable space. This appears to be a sale too, not a rental, so count on $10-$30 for most movies. It would be nice if they could encode a 14 day expiration on the film and charge $3-$5 for it. View it as many times as you like on the trip then discard it.
"Air travellers will be able to download feature films and computer games to a handheld computer using a service to be launched first at US airports this summer. Customers will be able to insert their computer's removable memory card or chip into slots in the kiosks, to download films, music, games, electronic books and newspapers. "Each location can choose what content they would like," says a spokesman for nREACH, the US company behind the idea."
They are figuring 1MB per minute of movie time, so a 2 hr movie might fit on a 128MB memory card, which we all know only has 122MB of usable space. This appears to be a sale too, not a rental, so count on $10-$30 for most movies. It would be nice if they could encode a 14 day expiration on the film and charge $3-$5 for it. View it as many times as you like on the trip then discard it.
