“An excellent MPEG player to watch movies on the go”

These days you don't need to be chained to the sofa if you want to enjoy the latest movies or TV shows. No Siree, the digital video revolution means that you can now check out the latest episode of 24 on your mobile phone, or watch your favourite films on your Pocket PC.

If you need to view movies in MPEG format then you can't afford to ignore PocketTV. The program is one of the most popular portable media players around, and performs very well to boot. Besides the usual things like loading movies, playback controlling, volume tweaking and full-screen mode, PocketTV can play streaming videos through the HTTP or FTP protocols.

There's an abundance of options to play around with, including the ability to set the size of the window, adjust colours, change brightness/contrast, tweak audio quality and a lot more besides.

If you're still in search of the perfect media player for your Windows Mobile device, you've probably just found it.

Languages:

English

Notes:

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OS requirements for PocketTV Classic:

OS: WM5

Pros

Crisp playback quality
Handles streaming video
Lots of viewing options
Resizable 'player window

Cons

Doesn't support all media formats

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From the publisher of PocketTV Classic

PocketTV Classic and Enterprise Edition have been released for the new Pocket PC's and Smartphones with Windows Mobile 5 (WM5). PocketTV takes full advantage of all the new features of Windows Mobile 5 (WM5) Pocket PC and Smartphones, such as Landscape display, soft-keys, on-the-fly display rotation, VGA resolution, etc.

PocketTV is a full-featured MPEG Movie Player for Microsoft Windows Mobile® Powered devices such as:

Pocket PC (Windows Mobile 5, 2003 SE, 2002 and 2000) including phones
Smartphone (Windows Mobile 5 and 2003)
Handheld PC
Casio Pocket Manager

More PocketTV Facts:

One of the most downloaded third-party Pocket PC and Smartphone applications. PocketTV has already more than 1,500,000 unique registered users (duplicate registrations excluded), and it gets 1000 more every day!
It can play any standard MPEG-1 video file (extension .mpg or .mpeg)
PocketTV provides you with the unsurpased video and audio quality and many useful features not found in other video players
The program takes full advantage of the new features of Windows Mobile 5 (on-the-fly display rotation, Soft Keys, VGA resolution, etc)
On the new VGA-resolution Pocket PC's, PocketTV takes advantage of the video hardware accelerators chips (such as the ATI Imageon 3200 series or the Intel Marathon 2700G), so it can play VGA-resolution MPEG files (i.e. DVD quality) with optimum quality
Compare PocketTV with Windows Media Player and the other mobile video players
PocketTV works well with Pocket Internet Explorer. You can play an MPEG movie by just tapping a link in a web page
PocketTV is also capable of streaming MPEG video files using standard internet protocols such as http, provided that your device has a wireless network connection that supports the necessary bandwidth i.e. the bitrate of the MPEG file that you want to stream