Full-length films can now be compressed tightly enough to fit on memory cards so they can be watched on cellphones.
The award-winning tale of a miscarriage of justice The Shawshank Redemption became the first movie to go on sale on a 64-megabyte Multimedia Memory Card (MMC) last week. Rok Corporation of Wolverhampton in the UK, which is behind the idea, says its cards will work in any MMC-capable phone from Motorola, Panasonic, Samsung, Nokia or Toshiba. The firm also says it has patented a technique whereby its movie-player software, carried on the card along with the film itself, starts…
