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QuickTime On Your Cell Phone

Posted by timothy on from the the-better-to-drive-with dept.

blamanj writes "Apple and DoCoMo are confirming that a new version of QuickTime is on the way supporting MPEG-4 images over 3G cellular service." Now if only these would make sense in the U.S. ...

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  1. iPhone by HaveBlue34 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you say iPhone?

    does this mean i can watch the twin towers divx rip on my toilet?

    1. Re:iPhone by tamen · · Score: 4, Funny

      Nope. But you might be able to do it on your phone ;)

  2. Re:Nokia's Communicator has RealPlayer by Boss,+Pointy+Haired · · Score: 5, Funny

    How did RealPlayer install itself on a Nokia without the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ Current Version \ Run ] to install about 3 billion entries in that start every time your turn on your computer, consume resources and pop-up random messages??

    The day RealPlayer respects my computer will be the day I respect RealPlayer.

  3. Pr0n by KecCu · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess this will give a whole new dimension to phone sex ...

    1. Re:Pr0n by tigress · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and I thought sending an SMS to the boss by mistake was bad. =)

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  5. Re:Nokia's Communicator has RealPlayer by dimator · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amen, brother. You got to click through about a hundred dialogs just to disable the damn StartCenter or whatever the fuck their stupid resource-hogging tray icon shit is called.

    And they do things like "Are you sure you don't NOT want to NOT DISable StartCenter?" to confuse the pants off you, so that you accidentally click yes instead of no. Disgusting, really.

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  6. Bang! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. Select movie to download.
    2. Billed $9.99.
    3. Downloading...
    4. Downloading...
    5. Downloading...
    6. "I'm sorry, Quicktime has performed and illegal operation and will be closed. Please report this fault to Apple inc. Thank you."

  7. Re:tired of proprietary formats, muddied waters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Apple also keeps confusing the issues with their claims that MPEG4 is somehow based on QuickTime; there is some historical relationship, but they are different.

    Tell me about it! And it's not just Apple confusing things: even those bastards at MPEG are trying to muddy our otherwise-clean waters:

    The design [of the MPEG-4 file format] is based on the QuickTime® format from Apple Computer Inc.

    I'm sick of this goddamned FUD!

  8. A name for this by squiggleslash · · Score: 4, Funny
    I think this is a remarkable innovation. Just think - a person will be able to receive video and audio signals transmitted over radio waves within a few miles of a suitable transmitter.

    We could call this equipment a name that reflects its nature - perhaps "tele", from the Latin for "far", and "vision", reflecting the visual nature of the content transmitted. Visiontele. It has a nice ring to it.

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