Video streaming is an exploding market from Youtube, Hulu, Amazon Video on Demand, to Netflix streaming movies has never had so many options. Streaming is not always enough so we look to local storage on micro SD Cards however that has its own limitations.
Dropbox, a cloud storage solution, offers a cloud storing option for streaming your movies to a Windows Phone device.
How to stream movies on Dropbox to Windows Phone
- If you don’t have a Dropbox account head over to Dropbox and sign up for a free 2 GB account.
- If you have movies already converted you can upload them to Dropbox. Otherwise, convert the movies you would like to stream. Visit our tutorial on How To Convert DVDs for Windows Phone 7.
- To access DropBox on Windows Phone download a program called Kickbox.
- Once you logon to your Dropbox account via Kickbox browse to your movie and tap the movie to play
- Enjoy the video stream.