RokPlayer wants you to watch TV and movies on your cellphone

Look, we're not going to get into the whole debate about whether or not people are going to watch video on their cellphones (though we did keep ourselves busy on a recent flight from New York to San Francisco with a few episodes of
Undeclared on our Treo), but a British company called Rok Player definitely thinks that you will. Early next year they plan to start selling MMC flash memory cards that come pre-loaded with TV shows and movies formatted for viewing on your cellphone, though obviously the phone has to have an MMC or RS-MMC card slot, and their software player is only compatible with a handful of handsets like the Nokia 6600 and the Siemens SX1. It's for the UK only (licensing issues abound), and the carriers might not like it since it means people won't be signing up for their streaming services, but Rok Player say they've already secured the rights to distribute a few dozen different British TV shows,
several Japanese and Bollywood films, and will be announcing deals with three "major Hollywood studios" next year.

[Via PicturePhoning]