Watching a Blu-Ray movie on your smartphone is admittedly pretty counter-intuitive, but believe it or not, part of the Blu-Ray standard is a mechanism allowing you to do just that. It’s called a Blu-Ray Digital Copy, which — in theory — allows you to pump a frame-by-frame copy at a lower resolution to a smaller device.
Up until now, though, no Blu-Ray movies have allowed you to actually do so, but with Fox’s Blu-Ray release of Unstoppable — a surprisingly entertaining “killer train run amok” popcorn flick — you’ll finally be able to watch a Blu-Ray movie on your Android phone.
That is, you can watch it on your Android phone if you’re willing to go through one of the most complicated processes of your life, because to bring Unstoppable over, you’ll need: “the Unstoppable Blu-ray disc, a wi-fi connected Blu-ray player, Android 1.6 or higher, and the PocketBLU app, which can be downloaded free from the Android Market”. Bring all of those disparate elements together in one Voltron-esque form, and you’ll be able to watch this entertaining but disposable movie on your Android phone.
Can I point something out, though? This sort of ridiculous hoop-jumping is why people just warez. As a legitimate customer, if I want to watch a Blu-Ray movie I own on my phone, even if the film does support Blu-Ray Digital Copy, the process of getting the film on my handset is hopelessly convoluted. It’d be a far simpler matter to just download the movie off of Bittorrent. Why bother?
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