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GBA To Pioneer Movies On The Run?
Thanks to the New York Times for their article discussing the rise of movie-playing add-ons for Nintendo's GameBoy Advance (registration required). The piece says that "portable video players are beginning to change where and how people watch movies, cartoons and music videos," and points to multiple GBA movie devices in development, such as Majesco's Game Boy Video Pak and TuneIn's Pocket Cinema, which will have an interface to a 3-inch CD player. With other products like 4Kids' GBA-TV in development, and the Sony PSP and Tapwave Helix portables promising movie availability, has this idea come of age, and is it reasonable to expect the public to watch "video on a screen the size of a dollhouse window, with a resolution that is no match for even a standard TV set"?
.. Type of video, like simplistic humour cartoons, and you can use low bitrates, watching adultswin stuff is quite ok even on 3650, and mmc card provides the memory. I wouldnt watch any live actor stuff though with the same bitrates. Athf and sealab rule:)
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As a GP32 owner, I'd say watching movies on a handheld is a bit overrated. First of all, you have to buy and install MoviePark (which, btw, has pulled their product from online sales -- if you don't own it now, you can't get it). Then, you've got to compress your video to Divx 4.12. Once that's finished, you've got to copy that file to your GP32 SMC.
Other than the "neat-o" factor, it seems pretty worthless to me. If I've got an hour to kill, I'd much rather play some C64/Atari ST/Atari 800/Atari 2600 roms than watch a movie on a 320x240 4 inch screen.