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A company called Mobile Box Office has launched a new service for WAP-enabled cell phone users in the US, allowing you to browse movie listing dates and times, select and pay for any movie, then use your phone as a ticket at the movie theater. So, after you pick your movie and buy your ticket with a secure credit card transaction, you'll get an electronic bar-coded ticket on your phone that is scanned at the theater of your choice (oh, your screen has to be color, by the way). Very clever. And easy. Though right now, only Emagine Entertainment theaters are offering this service.
Mobile Phone Users Can Now Buy and Receive Movie Tickets Directly on Handhelds [Geekzone]
What can your phone do? [MBO]
Comments
The most interesting part of this is that you can't scan barcodes from a screen. It must use some kind of CCD imagery rather than a laser scanner.
it has been done. and a laser barcode reader can read a barcode on a mobile screen already.
None of the theatres in my area use barcode scanners, they still just rip a ticket in half.
This is cool, but I'm waiting for the time when we can use our cells like we do credit cards, as it is in some of the Asian countries.
Yeah, I used Fandango on my hiptop in late '02. Scans just fine.
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