Posted on August 13, 2009, at 9:47 am .
Vringo is a video ringtone service for your mobile device that includes a social component so you can share your favorite videos with friends. Their application is being developed for the BlackBerry Bold, and they’re looking for early adopters to try out their fully functional social and visual ringtone application.
The service provides a large catalog of free video ringtones and it also lets you turn your own videos into a video rintone format.
Try the free video ringtone service Vringo for the BlackBerry Bold at beta.vringo.com.
To make your own video ringtones, head over to the Vringo Studio.
Posted on July 16, 2009, at 9:45 am .
In an effort to help you all out with expanding your BlackBerry devices media capabilities, each week we are gonna take a look at some of the hottest downloads from Videos4BlackBerry. As we’ve mentioned before Videos4BlackBerry is a one stop shop for videos on your Blackberry covering a lot of your TV favorites such as True Blood, Deadliest Catch, Rescue Me and so much more. So lets have a look at this week’s top videos.
Check out this week’s top videos for your BlackBerry
Posted on June 9, 2009, at 6:32 am .
Bla1ze makes sure you don’t miss your favorite shows and movies by making them available for all BlackBerry devices. Here is a roundup of some of the most popular TV and Kids content on his site, Videos4BlackBerry.
Popular TV
Deadliest Catch
Gossip Girl
Breaking Bad
Click through for more videos for your BlackBerry device
Posted on April 13, 2009, at 9:16 am .
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“If you didn’t use the BB Media Manager to convert/transfer video files, what are the best formats and settings to use for a video file so that it is playable on the BlackBerry Bold?”
I would recommend encoding video in mp4 format. This is the same format that RIM uses for their sample videos. As for the bit rate and video sizes, go to RIM’s official site to get these specs for all devices.
Supported formats
Recommended video format for local playback
Thanks for the question Leila.
(Have a BlackBerry question? Leave it for me in the comments.)
Posted on March 26, 2009, at 4:49 pm .
Although not officially confirmed, it seems RIM is going to announce a full-episode television service for BlackBerry. The launch may come at CTIA but we’ve also heard App World will be announced and they may not want to take away the spotlight.
The new service is rumored to feature:
- Unlimited monthly subscription service for a fee
- Once a user orders a program, the content will be downloaded in the background over Wi-Fi
- Multiple broadcast and cable networks have licensed content for the service
If the above comes true, I would be really interested to see what sort of content we can expect. Ideally, the service would start by offering the usual premium content that can be offered for free such as Comedy Central and Comedy Network shows.
Micro-payments can really help this service too. If I could pay $0.99 per episode of Lost or The Office, I would happily do so. Hopefully this service offers some content that really makes it worthwhile.
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Posted on March 23, 2009, at 9:05 am .
TVNow have a mobile video on-demand application for BlackBerry that is starting to take-in content and should be ready to go live in the near future. Obviously the most important element for video on-demand is content which can make or break a video app.
TVNow’s first set of videos will be instructional clips. “For example, we have a cooking series,” says company creator Andrew Tidby. “So, it’s going to be like having a cookbook and a TV series in your pocket.”
The company is also looking to acquire higher value content in its second phase. “What’s going to happen sooner rather than later,” he said, “is that if you want to watch Family Guy or Lost, you just punch it into your phone and watch it there, or have it beamed directly to your television through your phone.”
Tidby said TVNow will partner with the National Film Board of Canada, so that users can watch any of their short movies, anytime, anywhere. He also hopes to engage the BBC and the Sundance Film Festival, so viewers can have access to international programming and independent films.
One of the many problems they will face are content laws. TVNow is a Canadian born company which could pose many hurdles. For example, Canada is limited in its ability to provide Comedy Network content because Comedy Central is the main provider in Canada. Also, Canadians cannot get access to free NBC content from Hulu, making it even more of a pain for Canadians to get good content.
This app will really need some great content to succeed and it doesn’t take much. One major deal with HBO and some movies could really make this app worthwhile.
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