Mo-DV bringing major motion pictures to microSD cards

Hard to say why this here fad is just now catching on — after all, select studios warmed to the idea of putting their content onto portable flash storage years ago. That said, we’ve seen both Flix on Stix and this here contraption surface within the same month, but honestly, we’re having a hard time believing that it’s a niche waiting to explode. Mo-DV has just announced a new Universal Player for microSD cards, enabling Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile and your everyday Windows PC to play back DRM’d movies stored on a microscopic slab of memory. As for Android users, they’ll need version 2.1 or newer, and while few details are given, the company has confessed that more platform support is coming (good luck, Windows Phone 7 ). No one’s talking pricing or release information just yet, but potentially more frightening is this: has anyone ever considered just how inconvenient it is to keep a handful of microSD cards around, let alone swap them in and out of your smartphone? Continue reading Mo-DV bringing major motion pictures to microSD cards Mo-DV bringing major motion pictures to microSD cards originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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