PS3 video on demand in November News
PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
Sony has announced that the promised video-on-demand service for PlayStation 3 will launch in November.
Speaking at the ongoing Sony gamescom conference, European boss Andrew House said it would offer "the latest releases at the click of a button".
Sony has signed deals with Lionsgate, Paramount, MGM, Walt Disney, Fox, Universel, Universumn, Warner Bros. and Constantin.
Films mentioned were Pirates (of the Caribbean, we assume), Potter (as in Harry, we assume), Terminator (as in the old ones, we assume) and Batman (as in the new ones, we assume).
Fortunately we don't have to assume anything about viewing options, because House confirmed plans to rent or buy in HD or SD. Or buy! Not something you can do on Xbox Live Video Marketplace, as far as we recall.
House also said you could buy them using the usual wallet system and start watching soon after the download begins.
The service will launch in the UK, France, Germany and Spain in November and hit other regions in 2010.
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GamesConnoisseur
18/08/09 @ 19:01
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Of course something that been available on XBL for a while, but what I m interested if there would be closed caption option? If so then Sony would seriously edges ahead of XBL offering for me. Though I doubt it and presently only Apple iTune offers partial (limited selection) of CC for movies which I downloaded few to iPhone.
There are quite a few of hard of hearings gamers around and owner of HD multimedia theatre as well, so give us something! |
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@ spudsbuckley
Absolutely buying movies to use at home and on the move it a HUGE benefit for poor old Sony. Mind you the content needs to be there as well. The other night I was bored stiff and actually cracked thinking sod it I'll nab a movie off Live only to find sod all worth watching! Going on SCEE, PSN and the length of time it's taking to get here I still have doubts though and of course it be DRM riddled as the movie industry still needs to wake up to what the music industry is doing (so I doubt I spend that much on there) PLEASE Sony do this right. I might start buying some movies again (but only a few 'cos of the DRM thing...). |
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spudsbuckley
18/08/09 @ 20:21
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Sony are already involved in the movie business though so they should have a decent selection. Hopefully :D
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Yeah hopefully the selection should be good, after such a delay I expect a decent one!
Anyone had experience of the yank one, I tried to google prices but came up empty (without digging - too much effort!). Pricing, quality, restrictions any details (or links) would be nice guys. I think HD might be rental only (I read a post somewhere while looking for pricing), which is a shame of true. |
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Angels and Demons
Bruno The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe Crank 2 The Dark Knight Dead Space: Downfall Gran Torino Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix National Treasure Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Public Enemies Star Trek Terminator Salvation Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen Valkyrie X-Men Origins: Wolverine All at launch - Win for me that is |
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@mwmoney
Replace your hardrive. It's easy. I've swapped out my 80GB for a 250GB and will probably go through the same process again later to 750GB or 1TB once the price gets lower. I originally did this for Play TV (which needs series Link added ASAP). I am a big fan of subtitles, as I can watch TV/Movies whilst other back ground noise intefers (Baby, wife on phone to her mum etc) |
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seanthejackal
20/08/09 @ 13:30
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is this some sort of secret but the ps3 can download movies already.
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dominalien
22/08/09 @ 08:21
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Damn, why did I move out of Spain?
Although, probably, I would have bought one or two things and never used it again. Probably. |
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