Article by Red Herring on the use of Flash cards to support movies. I'm not so sure about distributing it via IBM's media kiosks though. Seems like MDM tried pretty hard to use retail outlets like Circuit City to push entertainment cards and it didn't work out to well. Selected quotes from the Red Herring article:

"PortoMedia said on Friday it is working with IBM Research to deliver two-hour, DVD-quality movies in just 18 seconds to mobile phones or portable media players.

The movies would be sold through kiosks and loaded onto secure digital flash memory cards that can be inserted into the phones and other players. Porto said the same content can be shown on TV sets at high resolution.

PortoMedia plans to test the distribution model during a large-scale pilot test next year, but declined to specify where it will take place. However, PortaMedia CEO Timothy O’Brien also hopes to see the technology available in retail outlets in both the United States and Europe next year.

“There is interest in both the U.S. and Europe based on the idea of the Flash card as a portable medium for a new content distribution channel,” said Mr. O’Brien.

The content would be distributed through a network of IBM-managed media kiosks, from which the content will be downloaded onto a Flash memory card. The kiosks would be installed in locations such as retail stores, as well as train, bus, and gas stations."

Question: Why does a company titled Portomedia have a URL http://www.anotherperspective.biz?