Gemalto, Universal Music Team on Smart Video Card Format

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on July 9, 2009 - 12:06pm.

Amsterdam - Digital security services firm Gemalto on Thursday announced a partnership with Universal Music Group, to jointly promote the Smart Video Card as a new music distribution channel. The Gemalto platform embeds a DVD-compliant optical disc into the card body of a regular SIM card. The Smart Video Card disc can be preloaded with 120MB of content that can be played in a standard DVD Player. Gemalto will offer UMG content along with its SIM card products outside of North America.

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