A phone with a 42″ display
My colleague Florin discovered that the TV Out feature available in several Nseries devices makes for a great sales pitch. He writes:
On several occasions I found myself trying to pitch S60 phones to some of my not-so-enthusiastic-about-converged-phones friends:
“Do you know you can watch movies with an S60 phone?”
“Well, who would like to see a movie on a tiny screen?”
“What about displaying it on a nice plasma TV? In good quality!”
“Hmm?”If you have a N93, N93i or
N94N95, it is possible! They all have TV-out cables that come with the phone, in the sales package. And they all support VGA-size MPEG-4 video with more than 1 Mbps bitrate. 16:9 TV out mode is supported as well. The quality is incredible, you have to see it to believe it.
The image here is from Florin’s 42″ LCD TV playing one of the Nokia design videos. There are four of them, which you can see on YouTube:
If you transcode your movies yourself, using ffmpeg (as explained in a previous entry), the right command would be something like this:
ffmpeg -i movie.avi -f mp4 -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1500000 -s 640×352 -acodec aac -ar 48000 -ab 96 -ac 2 movie.mp4
Enjoy!
-Oren
N94?! Please tell me you meant N95
Ho yes, see also my big article http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/features/item/The_desktopgames_consolemusic_source_in_your_pocket-starring_the_Nokia_N93.php
Steve
Yes, it should be N95.
What resolution is the TV-out? Is it QVGA like the phone’s screen or can it output at a higher res (perhaps VGA)?
It would be sweet if phones could eventually do dual display stuff like current laptops. For example pumping out video at a high resolution on the TV-out but displaying player controls and track info on the phone screen.
Ah well, for now I’d settle for an N95 if I could get my hands on one. Anyone got one going spare? ;-P
It’s a direct capture from phone’s display (driver) so QVGA. Right Oren?
The TV-out is VGA, so about 4 times higher quality than QVGA. But then the movie has to be encoded at VGA resolution as well. In this situation, the movie is downsampled to be shown on the screen, but on the TV-out it has the full resolution.
The N95 mobile is really great. I do know that it can pick MP4 Videos but i just dont know hat it can be connected with TV directly.
Its compatible with PSP and mp4 music videos?