Nothing worse than being stuck on a long flight and hearing the stewardess announce, “today’s in-flight movie is ‘Bangkok Dangerous‘.”
So it’s great to see mobile devices like iPods are teaming up with DVDs to save the day.
Film studios are starting to offer “digital copies” along with their DVDs. That means you get a computer disk with a copy of the movie in question in addition to the standard DVD disk. Pop the computer disk into your computer, crank up iTunes, and you’ll be able to transfer the film to your iPod.
The forthcoming “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” (Sept. 30) comes with a digital copy, as does the Sept. 23 re-release of “Reno 911! Miami.”
A source tells me these films take up anywhere from 1 to 1.5 GB of space, so even an 8 GB iPod Mini can carry several films at a time.
The iTunes site already offers digital movie downloads, but the digital copy wave is the latest way to make movies portable.
I’m flying to Chicago this weekend and plan to throw a movie or two on my old-school iPod - just in case ”
Jumper” is the in-flight selection.
