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Movies enter a side pocket: Lions Gate films for hand-held format.(Brief Article)

Video Business, May, 2002 by Hettrick, Scott

Lions Gate Entertainment has become the first studio to strike a licensing deal with 3-month-old Pocket PC Films to make dozens of its movies available for viewing on a Palm Pilot or similar device. Pocket PC Films, based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., is a subsidiary of TuneIn Entertainment, which uses an old digital format--the CD-ROM--to deliver movies to the hand-held devices.

Here's how it works: Users can buy a Pocket PC movie on CD-ROM at a retail outlet, mostly electronics and computer software stores now, for about $15. The CD-ROM with the movie is played in the computer that is attached to the Palm Pilot, where a 100-minute movie is downloaded in about 10 minutes. Depending on the memory capacity of the Palm Pilot, 10 or more movies...

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