MOVIE REQUEST LINE: If it's not on DVD... DON'T request it... DVDs ONLY!!!

In order to appreciate what I've done, first you must know something about formatting, screen sizes, scales and ratios. Here's a crash course: The Behold accepts 2 resolutions... 176X144 (normal size) & 320X240 (full screen) res only. This means the phone is only meant to play video clips at a ratio of 4:3 like standard TVs not 16:9 like wide screen TVs. Anything higher, you'll get a message that says something like, "invalid resolution" and the file (even though it's a fully compatible MP4 or 3GP) won't play. Even the Behold’s video camera only records in those same 2 screen sizes.

Unlike the PSP, you can set your screen size higher and it doesn't care, it simply plays the file. Why? Because the PSP has a 4:3 and a 16:9 screen ratio for playing square movie clips and full length wide screen movies. Keep in mind, this is the Behold... a cell phone, not an HDTV or PSP. It has strict screen limitations that accepts 4:3 ratio ONLY!!! How I make the files play perfectly at full screen is simply by ripping the files from the DVD with its 16:9 ratio still in tact. I put the ripped .avi file in HandBrake and proportionally re-rip that file to fit a 4:3 ratio. This makes it tons of black space on the top and bottom and shrinks it to a 176X84 or 72. When played on the Behold, somehow, the HandBrake program tricks the Behold to believe the newly ripped file is a high res 176X144 with a 4:3 ratio that can stretch to a proportioned 16:9 if you zoom to the 320X240 (the Behold's full screen mode). Anything higher will cause the file to stutter due to the unchanged 29.97fps framerate... the Behold kinda starts to pick up on what you're doing. Slow the framerate, you chop up the images. Speed it up and, you get the idea.

One more thing! Trust me on this... if I created a higher quality than 330MB, I can bet beyond the shadow of a doubt, you'd wanna kick my @$$ cause your phone will perform super slow. I'm not talking disc space, I'm talking, anything you press on the phone will be a super long delay. If you delete that 5 or 600MB movie file, the phone's processor performs as normal.

Here's the catch with the Behold that you should understand by now: These are full length wide screen movies with a consistent 29.97fps frame rate that are not meant to play on the Behold in the first place... not 30 second square shaped movie clips that are. You really have the BEST heavily researched job and the best part is, you didn’t have to do all the work. If that isn’t good enough, how’s this?: IT’S FREE!!!... lol.