Kinoma Notes

The famed Comic-Con International — the annual mecca for comic, videogame and movie geeks — just opened their doors to a record-breaking attendance.

The only problem? You’re not there! The show sold out before it started.

Happily, with Kinoma Player 4 EX you’ve got your own personal Comic-Con:

• Entertainment > Comics & Graphic Novels has been loaded with more great podcasts, including the official DC Comics podcast.
• The new Entertainment > Video Games category is all about PC and console video gaming, and features several podcasts each from 1UP and IGN.

You can even get a daily Comic-Con International fix — Entertainment > Comics & Graphic Novels > ComicMix is doing daily podcasts from Comic-Con.

Palm has just released an update for Treo 755p smartphones on Verizon.

No specific improvements are mentioned, but Palm says it “improves the phone application, stability and device usability”. Sounds good to us!

The firmware update will take a good part of an hour. Once it’s complete, follow steps 5-7 of my “grade-and-pave” article to ensure the fastest and most-stable Palm OS experience possible.

• Palm Treo 755p Software Update for Verizon
• The ol’ Palm OS grade-and-pave (or, how to clean your machine)

Sprint TV is a great paid video service available for Sprint customers.

When you use Sprint TV and choose a program, Sprint TV launches the phone’s built-in Kinoma Media Embedded (KME) to play it.

Normally, when you upgrade to Kinoma Player 4 EX, everything that used to play with KME will play with Kinoma Player instead — except Sprint TV. Here’s why:

Sprint TV needs KME to support their streams, including some special authentication that those streams require. That authentication process makes sure (1) that you’re a Sprint customer, and (2) that you’re currently subscribed to Sprint TV or Sprint TV Premiere.

Although we’re not able to add that special authentication to Kinoma Player, we’ve made sure that Kinoma Player is smart enough to use KME automatically, whenever necessary.