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With the power of mobile phones more and more people want to watch movies on them. The problem is, a lot of people don’t know where to begin. There are a few different routes you can take to get a movie on your phone. The main two are to buy them from various vendors or you can create them. It is pretty easy to buy them and add them to your phone using Amazon Unbox so let me help you with this one first. I will create another article on how to create them from your library.

What is Unbox?

Amazon has a video on demand service called Unbox. This service allows you to browse Amazon’s library and either rent or purchase a movie. You have a few options available to watch your movie. You can

Watch it online

You can log into your Amazon account and then select your purchased movie. A player loads in the browser. This is similar to watching any YouTube video except you own or rent it.

Download to your PC

Once you install the Amazon Unbox software on your pc you can manage purchase, and watch your videos

Purchase a device that can use the Unbox service.

There are various devices that can be purchased that can link into the Amazon Unbox service. Probably the two most popular ones are the Roku HD Player and a TiVo Video Recorder.

Download to a supported portable device. (the reason why your here!)

In addition to downloading the full movie file, you can also get a portable copy for your device.The list of portable devices is not extensive on the Amazon website but pretty much any Windows Mobile Phone should work ( I have not tested this ). The device just needs to support the Microsoft Play for Sure feature. The easy way to check and see if your device is supported is to connect it to your PC. While in the Unbox software you should be able to see it under “devices” with a drop down for available storage on the device.

Whichever option you choose you will enjoy your movie.
Adding your movie to your Windows Phone.

Once you purchase your movie from Amazon and download it, you can then transfer the portable copy to your phone. There are two ways to get the portable copy of the movie.

You can setup the Amazon Unbox Player to automatically download the portable file by going into Settings | Preferences and choose the option “Also download portable video files when downloading videos”.

The other option is to right click on the video and select “Download portable file to this PC”.

Whichever option you take the full movie file MUST be downloaded before you can get the portable file.

Now that you have the portable file, click “devices” in the tool bar at the top of the Unbox player on your PC. Your downloaded portable files will be visible in the middle of the player (1), and your device on the right (2).

Now just hit the big “Transfer” button.

Once the transfer is complete locate the file on your phone with your media player (on my device there was an Amazon folder created under the default “Videos” folder on my storage card )
Play it and enjoy your movie!

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