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Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

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Old 02-04-2008, 8:00 AM   #1
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Post Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

Your own personal movie theater. That’s what Sony is calling its new film channel for US cellphone users. The service, dubbed PIX, launches this May. Slated for delivery to mini-screens are back-catalogue titles from Columbia Pictures, Tri-Star, Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics. In addition to the movies, which will be shown on a loop [...]
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Old 02-04-2008, 8:45 AM   #2
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Re: Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

Oh my god I can feel eyestrain comin on looking at a teetzy little screen.

Watch a film on a mobile phone? You gotta be joking. Silly nonsense
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Old 02-04-2008, 6:08 PM   #3
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Re: Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

You would have thought they learnt their lesson with umd format for the PSP, which never took off.

Mobile phone screens are far worse, so if free, for novalty value, ok, but no one or not many to be exact, will throw good money at it.

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Old 02-04-2008, 6:36 PM   #4
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Re: Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

Nice to know how little they think of their films.
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Old 09-04-2008, 2:49 PM   #5
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Re: Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

Totally crap idea,you've got to be a sad person to watch a film on a phone.Then again,knowing the retards that use their mobiles,this will probably take off
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Old 09-04-2008, 4:13 PM   #6
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Re: Sony launches film channel for mobile phones

Yeah, can't say I'd be up to watching a feature-length film on a phone, not even on my N95 which has a decent screen. TV programmes, on the other hand, would be great.
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