The following PREVIEW has been approved for iPhone audiences

Oh, Apple, how well you know me. I’m a huge movie trailer junky, so when I saw Chris respond to a commenter that QuickTime seems to work fine in Safari, I took a ride over to Apple’s Movie Trailers site.

Only to find that Apple graciously created an iPhone version of the trailers site (it looks pretty much identical, but the URL is http://www.apple.com/trailers/iphone). For the most part it functions identically to the standard trailers page, but you’ll notice that if you load any of the individual movie pages, a blue “play” icon appears on the trailer itself. Touching that will launch you into a fullscreen media player (which, though it was a little quirky on my iPhone, you can rotate into landscape mode). At the end of the trailer, it’ll drop you back onto the webpage.

Very very slick stuff, and perfect for a trailer addict like myself. I’ve already watched The Bourne Ultimatum and I Am Legend trailers, and while it’s a little irritating that the aspect ratio gives you two sub-par choices (letterboxed or zoomed), the video still looks pretty good (though not nearly as good as Apple’s HD trailers).

Category: Musings

Posted by Dan Moren on Jun 30 2007, 5:56 PM ET

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