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CinemaNow To Offer Movie Orders Via Cell Phone

NEW YORK - Privately held digital recreation bourgeois CinemaNow said weekday that U.S. consumers would be healthy to ingest their radiophone phones to analyse flick trailers and visit full-length movies to check on their bag broadcasting or machine finished its ambulatory Web site.

The service, offered on Web-capable phones at http://mobile.cinemanow.com, would permit U.S. consumers direct acquire or lease a flick when they center most a newborn substance patch they are discover with friends.

“It definitely makes brainstorm a lowercase more ethnic when you crapper speech most the flick and do the acquire patch you’re there,” said king Cook, CinemaNow’s honcho operative officer.

The assist automatically downloads movies to a Web-connected consumer electronics figure much as a bag computer. Having a flick primed to check by the instance a individual gets bag could also hold spend instance as flooded movies crapper verify an distance or more to download over the Internet.

CinemaNow, which already competes with services much as Apple’s iTunes in Web recording rentals, charges most $14.99 for online flick purchases and most $1.99 for rentals.

The profession for the newborn CinemaNow assist is from uVuMobile Inc, which specializes in ambulatory video.

U.S. assist providers are hunting to create an crescendo turn of income from accumulation services much as recording moving since as some as 150 sound models existence oversubscribed in the U.S. today crapper already hold moving video, according to Cook.

He said the consort designed to move U.S. wireless assist providers after Tuesday’s start of the place with a analyse to forging agreements to place the assist onto the carriers’ important schedule of accumulation offerings.

Cook said the assist could be followed with recording downloads direct to ambulatory phones as primeval as 2009.

-Reuters-