S60 Open to new features

TechCrunch reviewed the action at the recent Digital Hollywood conference, which included a presentation from TurnHere, a video start-up based in California. They are producing a series of short (3-4 minute) films about different places in the world, created by independent filmmakers. The current selection includes films about popular and more obscure places, most of them in the US.

The S60 angle is that you can watch these (MP4) videos on your S60 phone without any additional processing. It's hard to download the videos directly to your phone, so you'll need to transfer them from your PC or Mac.

Let's see, short, mobile-ready videos, location-based content... could there be a mobile business model here?

[Update Aug. 23] I discovered today that the videos on TurnHere are in (at least) two different formats. This one, for example, uses the AVC video codec, and will only work on S60 devices that support it, such as the N93. For other devices, you need to convert the video. Other videos use an MP4 video codec that works on a wider range of S60 devices, including the E61 (tho' I still need to verify this).

-Oren