Sprint Adds Movie Streaming

Those of you on the Power Vision EV-DO service might have something else to be excited about today, as Sprint has added the ability to stream full-length feature films right to compatible handsets.

The movie catalogue will currently be made up of both recent box office releases and classics from companies such as Buena Vista, Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, and Universal Pictures. Prices for ‘renting’ a movie ranges between $3.99 USD to $5.99 USD, with the user able to watch the movie an unlimited amount of times but only for 24 hours to one week, depending on the title.

As an added bonus, the streaming movies behave similar to DVDs, in that the movie is divided into chapters that can be skipped and navigated between, and the movie will resume from the same point if it is stopped mid way through.

I don’t know if I would ever want to watch a movie on a small two inch screen, but I guess some people do, and screens on cell phones are getting bigger. Interesting idea.

September 7th, 2006 Posted by David in News at 8:56 pm 4 Comments »
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