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Euro PS3 video service on Thursday News
PlayStation 3 News by Robert Purchese
The European PS3 video store opens on Thursday, 19th November, in France, Germany, Spain and the UK and presents over 2000 films for rent or purchase.
Hiring costs from €1.99 and buying costs from €7.99 per title, but initially HD films will only be available to rent.
There are special offers for early birds: buy Angels and Demons and you will receive a complimentary copy of The Da Vinci Code. Or don't bother. Alternatively, anyone registering a new PSN account tomorrow or Friday will be given a free copy of Transformers.
You'll be able to find the video delivery service in the Video Store section of the PlayStation Store.
Incidentally, renting means you have the film for 14 days but only have 48 hours to watch the content once you press play. Films can be transferred to PSP for viewing on the train or while walking to work and crossing busy roads.
There are some eye-catching and recent films among the launch line-up: Star Trek, Public Enemies, Valkyrie and Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.
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Incidentally, renting means you have the film for 14 days but only have 48 hours to watch the content once you press play. Films can be transferred to PSP for viewing on the train or while walking to work and crossing busy roads.
this actually sounds really promising (apart from the crossing the roads bit : ) |
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legendarytomuk
18/11/09 @ 19:34
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Transformers? Tempted me too make another account, then I remembered it's actually the worst film ever made .
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Yes questions questions!
Why only new accounts? Surely the freebie is just a rental? 1080p? Who would buy these ( or download games) when you can buy a cheaper boxed copy then resell?? I think this could be pretty good for renting HD films given the price of blu-rays... But how loong would they take to download?? |
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ScarboroughKID
18/11/09 @ 20:35
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If you read the EU Playstation Blog about the offer, the Transformers is a HD purchase, not a rental, and it's a new, registered console, not account.
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XrustynutsX
18/11/09 @ 21:09
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when i got my ps3 on launch 60 gig version (now 400 gig) (lots of wonga it cost dammit) and registered online to the psn i got a free copy of casino royale on bluray through the post which was a nice unexpected suprise.
keep up the good work sony and crush your competitors lol. the ps3 is evolving into an all you need multimedia hub. sony needs to re-think it's marketing and push all it's multitude of uses as it is now just awesome. who needs a pc/dvd/bluray player/photo browser/music center/karaoke machine/video chat/entertainment hub/GAMES MACHINE, all seperate when you have it all in one box of tricks lol
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The_Programmer
18/11/09 @ 21:32
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"who needs a pc/dvd/bluray player/photo browser/music center/karaoke machine/video chat/entertainment hub/GAMES MACHINE, all seperate when you have it all in one box of tricks lol"
Only a fool would put all their eggs in one basket. If your PS3, applies to the 360 as well, goes down then you lose all of your home entertainment in one go. With seperate units then if your DVD player goes down then it doesn't effect any of your other entertainment units. Same applies if you've got a Sky or Freeview box. I've also got a Cyclone (MKV) HDMI network media player adaptor which plays all my video, pictures up to 1080p & audio files as well. Only the loss of the TV would stop me from losing all of my entertainment.
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"Any word on the sound ? Is it DD 5:1 or stereo like the 360 ?"
On the US store the surround tracks are in AAC format. However, the PS3 does not convert this to DD5.1 so unless your reciever supports AAC 5.1 decoding directly, you won't get surround on an optical connection. If you've got a HDMI receiver though, it'll just convert it to PCM so no problems. |
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canIdoyabombsforya
18/11/09 @ 23:34
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Sounds good and better than the 360 service. So how much are they really relying on Blu-Ray sales? not much I hope.
Nothing wrong with buying movies and storing on a media center, my prefered option if the price is right. |
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M_of_the_sys
18/11/09 @ 23:59
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@The_Programmer
Perhaps you should keep everything in separate buildings. What if the place burns down? :O |
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freakzilla
19/11/09 @ 06:38
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The pricing seems reasonable, I might get hooked if I find good films on a regular basis. Is this service capable of netflix style "instant streaming"?
Is it capable of streaming iplayer HD level picture quality?
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electrolite
19/11/09 @ 07:35
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Strange plusses and minusses on this one. Are some people desperately offended by people not wanting one box for all their entertainment formats? Them marketing people told you good that's what everyone wants eh?
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JohnnyWashnGo
19/11/09 @ 08:17
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Great prices for the rentals.
Am I right in assuming that these are not streamed and are instead downloaded to your PS3 before you can watch them? Because it will take me longer than 48 hours to download an HD movie using my ISP with my 1920s telephone exchange :( |
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SeesThroughAll
19/11/09 @ 08:19
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The rental price is very reasonable. I would have preferred rentals to allow us to watch a movie as many times as wanted throughout the entire 14 days, but it's a decent deal nonetheless...
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designerheadache
19/11/09 @ 08:50
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I suppose its in Sony's interest to make the "rental" price affordable, but to pitch the "buy" price at just the point where you might as well buy it on BD or DVD instead.
Cash for them either way. |
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flaming.carrot
19/11/09 @ 09:28
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@wiseguy
Just install a larger HDD is you are running out of space. You can get a 500Gb drive for about fifty quid these days. |
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@Ryze
Last Time i rented off Xbox Live this was the same deal, i.e. 48 Hrs after starting the movie you had to have watched it (Although you could watch it as many times as liked in the 48 Hrs period) and you had 14 days to start the movie after the initial download. Has this change recently? Are the terms different for the new ZUNE service and the Movies on Demand? I'm glad Sony is also implementing a similar service as this will hopefully force Microsoft to rethink some of there pricing on the movie rental service. I stand corrected it is withing the 24hrs of starting the movie that it must be watched.
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TonyHarrison
19/11/09 @ 14:04
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Disappointing, you can only rent certain movies, the newest release available for rent as far as I can see is Watchmen.
I was under the impression we'd have the option to rent/buy everything... |
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