S60 Open to new features

Ladies and gentlemen,

The feature film Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is now available for you to download - for free and optimized for your Nokia S60 device!

Direct links to downloads:
- 76MB version, optimized for S60 devices
- 106MB version, optimized for S60 devices
- 460MB version, optimized for iPod

Samuli Torssonen, the main man behind Star Wreck, said that he would put at least the 106MB version to the official Star Wreck site.

It is surprisingly nice to watch the movie with newer S60 based Nokia devices, such as Nokia 6680. But if you have a really old model, don't bother. It is much more fun with a stereo headset and full-screen mode.

Way cool. Thank you Samuli and whole Star Wreck crew!!

The most popular Finnish movie of all time

Wikipedia says:

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is a 2005 direct-to-DVD motion picture produced by five friends in a two-room flat with a very small budget and the support of a few hundred fans and dozens of acquaintances. Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning is the seventh production in the Star Wreck movie series, the first of professional quality and feature length. It is a dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 universes. The film is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0 Finland license.

and:

Within two months of the movie's Internet release, it was estimated that more than 2.9 million copies of the movie had been downloaded from the official site alone, surpassing the viewership of the most popular Finnish movie ever, Edvin Laine's The Unknown Soldier (1955). Team's service provider, Magenta sites, reported over 2 petabytes of data transfers and estimated that actual amount of downloads, including all mirrors, would be in the range of 3.5 to 4 millon.

In addition, the film has received very good feedback from Finnish media and from the Internet Movie Database, where its current user rating is 7.6/10.

Wow. How did it become available to my Nokia S60 device?

A month ago, I posted a rant about "Offline video content to your S60 device?" This raised some enthusiastic discussion in our afternoon coffee table. Mika (my boss's boss) threw an idea into air: wouldn't it be cool to make an S60 optimized version of Star Wreck movie? I liked the idea. So I sent an email to Samuli Torssonen. And as it happens, Samuli liked the idea too.

After some debate, we agreed the most suitable format for S60 devices:
- zoomed version
- bigger subtitles
- .3gp format
- Optimized resolution, frame rate, and audio quality, so that file size gets roughly to 100Mbytes

And here we are. Feel free to send feedback, and please tell us if you would like to see the movie in some other format!

Merry Christmas for everybody :-)