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Japanese mobile TV fans will have some new content to play with today, but only if they find a friend to enjoy it with. Pair Movie is a new drama series intended to be viewed on two cellphones held side by side; the different characters are displayed on the different screens, with the handsets synchronizing the footage via the infrared ports.
The project is the handiwork of Sony Music, advertizer Dentsu and a promotional company called Mobile Art. First available is a five-part drama, with the male character appearing on one cellphone and the female on the other, interacting despite playing on separate handsets.
Content appears to be accessed via 2D barcodes; a demonstration is online but the service is only available to Japanese users. There’s no suggestion of what future content will be offered, nor if this is just an one-off advertizing venture or has longer-term potential.
[via Digital World Tokyo]
One Response to “Pair Movie split-screen cellphone entertainment”
Hazel December 17, 2008
Leave it to the Japanese to think up and consume services like this! It’s a beautiful thing for the rest of the world to observe because, although they seem strange to us, they seem to make a whole lot of sense a few years later.
For some “today” use cases for codes though, check out http://mobilebarcodesrock.blogspot.com
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