Use of movie ringtone becomes popular as data transfer rate has improved and made it possible for you to send a large quantity of data. With movie ringtone, you can send video and audio of several tens of seconds.

Actually, song ringtones are the files that uses only the audio section of the movie ringtones. So, the technical boarder between movie ringtones and song ringtones is quite vague. As mentioned, normal song ringtones use the technology of movie ringtones, but there are song ringtones that use the technology of melody ringtones and they are called "mock song ringtone".