PS3 video on demand in November

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 August, 2009

Batman! Terminator! Pirates! Potter.

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.

Keep up with the Sony conference on our live coverage page.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (23) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Law07 #1 3 years ago

    FINALLY

  • #2 3 years ago

    Is it streamed or do you have to download the film? Whats the minimum BBand connection required?

  • Zelf1 #3 3 years ago

    yes finally, and also their giving you the option to rent or buy which is cool and you can transfer the movies onto you PSP :-)

  • woodnotes #4 3 years ago

    No TV progs then :(

  • bad09 #5 3 years ago

    Better late than never. Price will be the key to this though. I'm not paying DVD price for download. Anyone know what the yanks pay? treble that and that's our price I reckon.

  • GamesConnoisseur #6 3 years ago

    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!

  • NotSoSlim #7 3 years ago

    @ woodnotes

    Not yet

  • phycus #8 3 years ago

    nice!

  • Darren #9 3 years ago

    I hope would that Sony have given some consideration to hearing impaired users and will include subtitle options with their movies because Microsoft certainly haven't!

  • Linkified #10 3 years ago

    Yet no TV series, Sony two steps forward 5 back.

  • Widge #11 3 years ago

    yes, because adding something equates to negative pointage.

    WELL DONE.

  • spudsbuckley #12 3 years ago

    You can buy stuff. Better than the 360 version already.

  • bad09 #13 3 years ago

    @ 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...).

  • spudsbuckley #14 3 years ago

    Sony are already involved in the movie business though so they should have a decent selection. Hopefully :D

  • bad09 #15 3 years ago

    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.

  • bad09 #16 3 years ago

    Seriously, who marked Darren down for asking about subs. Ignorant bastard you try having hearing problems.

  • mcmonkeyplc #17 3 years ago

    Bout freaking time. Tards! :p

  • HistoryTeller #18 3 years ago

    About the price.. be happy that your not living in Denmark then..

  • mwmoney #19 3 years ago

    Am wondering how the large the films will be. If they are > 4GB then the internal HDD will fill up fast with no way to move. Maybe the assumption is to delete once watched and then download again when you want to re-watch.

  • Johnsters #20 3 years ago

    @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)

  • mwmoney #21 3 years ago

    I have, currently got a 320GB and I've read that the drives > 500GB won't fit in the PS3. With HD films it's not going to be long before that's filled up. And am wondering about the new slim, if the drive can't be changed on that 120GB will fill up very fast. Not that I'm planning on getting one.

  • seanthejackal #22 3 years ago

    is this some sort of secret but the ps3 can download movies already.

  • dominalien #23 3 years ago

    Damn, why did I move out of Spain?

    Although, probably, I would have bought one or two things and never used it again. Probably.