Kinoma Play
Kinoma Play is the world’s first mobile media browser. It’s everything you need to find and play video, audio and pictures, whether they’re on your phone, on your home PC, or on your favorite web services.
Without Kinoma Play, your smartphone is just a phone. With Kinoma Play, it’s a mobile media powerhouse. Nothing else makes it so easy to find and play video, audio and pictures.
Video
Share the YouTube clip that made you laugh out loud. Catch breaking news updates from Reuters. Watch recorded TV via your home PC, or bring it with you. View hundreds of webcams and traffic cameras built into Kinoma Guide, or tune into your own kid-cam or pet-cam wherever you are.
Audio
Bring your music with you, whether it’s on your phone or streaming from your home PC. Play thousands of podcasts instantly — no syncing required. Listen to thousands of live digital radio stations for free. Use Kinoma Play with Live365 and Audible for the best premium audio experience available on mobile.
Pictures
Browse, search, and play photos and photostreams from Flickr, SmugMug, MobileMe, and other popular sites. Create and play slideshows, with musical accompaniment from your favorite music. Kinoma Play even lets you take your pictures for a spin, with support for interactive, 360° panoramas.
Guide
Kinoma Guide is a constantly updated, always fresh guide to the best mobile-ready content on the web. You’ll always have on-demand access to thousands of podcasts, music, audiobooks, streaming radio stations, and more. Best of all, no monthly subscription fees are required.
Whether you like to take your own video with you or just play video from the internet, Kinoma Play makes it easy to enjoy your movies, TV, and music videos wherever you happen to be.
YouTube
Browse, search, and play PC-quality YouTube video directly within Kinoma Play. It’s so quick and easy, you may prefer using your phone even when you’re in front of your PC.
Webcams
Use the free Kinoma Guide to find and play interesting and entertaining webcams and traffic-cams from around the world. Or set up your own personal webcams, kid-cams, pet-cams, or security-cams.
Take it with you
Using tools like Kinoma Producer and TiVo Desktop, you can encode your movies, TV shows, and other video and take them with you. One 4 GB memory card can store up to 20 full-length movies!
Or get it to go
Install Orb on your home PC or media server to watch your movies, TV, and other video wherever you are.
Technical Notes
Kinoma Play supports MPEG-4 Video SP and AVC/H.264 codecs, 3GPP (same as MPEG-4), Flash Video (Sorenson Spark codec), QuickTime Movie (same as MPEG-4) and Windows Media 9 (WMV9 codec) video formats. For streaming, Kinoma Play supports HTTP, RTSP, and MMS streaming.
Still carrying a separate MP3 player? Or maybe you don’t take one with you at all, because it’s so inconvenient? Get Kinoma Play, and turn your phone into the world’s best audio player.
Music
The full-featured audio player works with all popular formats, so it’ll play just about any type of unprotected music file you’ve got — including music ripped from your own CDs, as well as Amazon and iTunes Plus digital downloads.
Streaming
Use the free Kinoma Guide to find and play thousands of streaming radio stations, more than 500 albums of music from Magnatune, and over 1,000 classic audiobooks. You can even stream your music from your home PC by using Kinoma Play together with Orb.
SHOUTcast
Tune into thousands of free online radio stations created by hobbyists, DJs, and other broadcasters around the world.
Live365
There’s built-in support for Live365, making Kinoma Play the fastest and easiest way to tune into into the world’s best digital radio. Enjoy the free stations, or subscribe to get streaming radio from thousands of Live365 broadcasters in 250 genres from more than 150 countries.
Podcasts
Get on-demand access to thousands of the world’s best podcasts. And forget about having to “sync” every time you want to go somewhere — with the world’s only streaming podcast player, your podcasts will always be up to date.
Audible
Download and play bestsellers, and more than 40,000 of the world’s best audiobooks. Check out the free content, or become an Audible subscriber at a special price for on-the-go access to the full Audible catalog.
Technical Notes
Kinoma Play supports MP3, AAC (iTunes), aacPlus, Flash Video (MP3 in an FLV), and Windows Media Audio 9 audio formats. It also supports FLAC uncompressed audio. For streaming, Kinoma Play supports HTTP, RTSP, and MMS streaming.
Sure, video and audio playback are cool, but life is full of pictures — your pictures, pictures from your friends and family, and pictures from services like Flickr. Kinoma Play puts it all together to give you the big picture.
An amazing view
Now your phone is also the world’s coolest digital photo album. You can browse through photos, quickly view what you like, and then dive into the details by rotating, zooming in, and panning around your photo.
Slideshows
With Kinoma Play you can create and play slideshows of your favorite pictures. You can even add music accompaniment.
Flickr
Browse, search, and play pictures and photostreams from services like Flickr, SmugMug, MobileMe, and more.
360° panoramas
Only Kinoma Play lets you get inside the picture, with support for 360° photo panoramas. Take your pictures for a spin, with panning and zooming so smooth you’ll feel like you’re there.
Technical Notes
Kinoma Play supports JPEG and PNG image formats, either standalone or in RSS-based photostreams.
Kinoma Guide is a constantly updated, always fresh guide to the best mobile-ready content on the web.
Incredible content
Kinoma Guide is what the mobile industry calls a “built-in content discovery system”. You’ll call it the quickest, easiest way to get on-demand access to thousands of podcasts, music, audiobooks, streaming radio stations, webcams, and more.
Search
In addition to browsing through Kinoma Guide, you can search for your favorite YouTube video, radio stations, audiobooks, and lots more without leaving Kinoma Play — and without having to fumble around in a web browser.
Premium services
Use your Live365 and Audible subscriptions right within Kinoma Play. Not a subscriber? No problem — enjoy the free content, and upgrade at a special price whenever you’re ready.
No monthly fees
Kinoma Guide is built into Kinoma Play, and it’s free. You don’t have to subscribe, and there are no monthly subscription fees.
Requires a supported device running Windows Mobile 5 or later.
“Kinoma Play is fast, intuitive, and shows how a kick-ass player can deliver a great media experience on smartphones.”