A Big Screen In Your Pocket: Vmedia Creates An Optical Disc Drive For Your Phone

There are some cool things coming out of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, one of them being a mini optical disc drive for your mobile phone from Vmedia. Called the "Vmedia" format and "designed to bring the quality of a big screen experience...to mobile consumer electronics", is currently shipping to phone manufacturers.

A Vmedia disc inserts into the world's smallest blue-laser drive, holding complete feature-length movies in 576p resolution with H.264 video and AAC audio codecs. Discs are currently single-layer with 1 GB of storage space, but a dual-layer disc with twice the storage capacity will ship in 2009. A second-generation "slim" drive with a reduced height is expected to ship near the end of 2008 as well.

Via Pocket-lint

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