PSN to get 50+ new movies per week News

What about some cross-movie chat ?

"Is that a joke question?"

When asked whether the first batch of films includes the full set of Police Academy movies or whether that's also something Sony is looking at for the future, Hardy replied: "Is that a joke question?"

And this is one of the reasons I love Eurogamer. Lmao.

lol Insomaniac!

Love the huge list on the PSP - pricing a bit odd in places, £11.99 for a current title in SD? Even the DVDs aren't that much.

so its launching with more than 7 times the films that 360 has managed to get in over a year and promising to add more than 50 every week, thats quite impressive.

Love the 1st PA film. Good question.

@GamesProgrammer

Not surprising given that they are part of the movie business to begin with, really. This is going to be a BIG plus for their service.

Meh, really want this but it's not coming here until next year :( Still... good news.

impressive, no joke

this will all come down to (and i fear broken by) pricing, pricing, pricing...

I'm not sure how this service works? Does it stream like with music videos or do i have to download? if it streams it might be good for a bit of impulse viewing, but if i have to plan a head a couple of hours, maybe not.

@Mkwone

You can watch while downloading.

Also pricing seems decent enough with a large selection to boot

That's a pretty decent catalogue. Helps that Sony own numerous film studios obviously. Pricing sounds realistic too.

That's miles ahead of what we get from Xbox Live. It's a shame that there's so much content in the US Marketplace and shit in the European one. Hopefully that will push Microsoft to react...

I wonder.. how new will the newest movies be? Will they be approximately the equivalent of the newest Blu-Ray/DVD releases? Or newer? Older?

Isn't all this Sony just catching up with what Microsoft has already done on XBL?

What I would really like to see from Sony is for the PS3 to have the ability to 'map' to a shared drive or a NAS box kind of set-up, so that owners can use other devices to store their content on and not have to worry about overloading the measly 120GB HDD (or less) on the PS3.

A mapped drive/NAS connection would benefit not only the consumer but also, it might give a decent boost to NAS device sales and it will stop Sony/Microsoft from having to factor in the cost of a high capacity HDD in their respective console's price tags.

I think PS3/X360 owners should campaign for this, much in the same way as PS3 owners demanded the in-game XMB feature and eventually got it.

@ mkreku:

I suspect that they will be in the 'chain' for the release of such entertainment. Cinema tends to be first. Then out to rent the DVD/BRD. Then comes the likes of Sky/Virgin/NetFlix. Finally (probably), extra rental/DLC purchases through XBL and PSN.

2000 movies is a decent size. Compare that to Xbox, where there are about 200 ...
with 2000 there is a good chance that there is something I want to watch

@ zedzee: It might be just catching up in the US but it's raising the bar very high in Europe. The European video marketplace is a joke...

Nice of Microsoft to give us Zune, some content would be nicer!
Sony actually get 1up on us 360 owners..

Somtimes I wish these services were available in Portugal, but then again it doesn't really matter, we have two ISP's which already do so, one of them has +3000 movies available.
Don't you have this already in UK, prior to XBL and PSN?

@zedzee;
Isn't all this Sony just catching up with what Microsoft has already done on XBL?

'catching up' would imply that the video service on XBL is either equal or slightly ahead.

'Leap frogging' or 'completely overtaking and leaving for dust' might be better metaphors here.

It's not as good as everyone is making out as all the decent movies seem to be available to buy only (not rent)... and at a whopping £11.99 too!

Yeah, I have to say I'm slightly disappointed. The first 5 films I wanted to rent weren't available for rent. I was under the assumption you can rent anything, but it seems the very latest releases are only available to buy which is a tad annoying. On the flip side there's looooooads of decent movies available for just £2.50 in SD. All in all, a very good service but I hope they introduce rent for everything.

In the words of The Pain:
"I have waited long for this day".

@sugapunk
Ugh.

So all in all barring a few niggles it's a good start?

I am at work so can't check

I'm pleasantly surprised by the price. €2.99 is actually more reasonable than I expected. But anyone who actually *buys* a movie from the service is a moron. For that price you can probably pick the DVD up from a bargain bin, and it certainly won't be tied to one service, or to one PSN id, or to a couple of devices made by one manufacturer.

i still don't get these download services, because many people continue to be on an ISP deal with "unlimited broadband" that has a "fair use" restriction that kicks in at around 3GB for some, thereby cutting you off or throttling your bandwidth.

it seems to me that these services, although excellent in principle, are still a little too far ahead of our draconian ISPs who'll prevent you from downloading more than a couple of movies per month.

Oh, I wasn't expecting this to be uttered from the mouths of Sony Europe. I'd still rather see them working harder on the games though.

You see lads? Competition is a good thing.

Microsoft cannot sit back whilst a free service offers more films than XBL...

Damn, that's a good Xbox-beating number.

I'm confused as to what 's happened to the Xbox (Zune) marketplace - all the films have suddenly gone! (although I can get 1080p streaming, which is nice). Was going to sit back and watch The Wrestler... not able to now :(

@ MrNyarlathotep:

I meant it in a 'me too' kind of way and if you look at it like that, it's nothing more than a knee-jerk reaction to what Microsoft announced and are now rolling out.

Surpassing Microsoft is really beside the point, since most people will not be getting their films in this fashion, considering they will most probably be DRM-ed in some way or another, making them inflexible. I'd like to see a 5-device license bundled with every purchase, so that PS3 owners can at least transfer the film to their PSP or PC, if they wanted to.

"You see lads? Competition is a good thing.

Microsoft cannot sit back whilst a free service offers more films than XBL... "

This isn't free - you have to pay to rent or buy the film. And if you're referring to Gold membership vs PSN, you don't need to be a Live subscriber to rent movies on Live so it's an invalid point really.

Also, if you have Sky Movies, then that arguably that adds 100s of movies on-demand to the 360's line-up.

Personally I have both consoles and I wish MS would get more studios on board because the instant-on thing is amazing, just a shame there isn't much content to try it out on.

@Justsomeone - vote with your wallet, change ISP - theres plenty out there with very large/nonexistent monthly caps for virtually the same price... ;-)

@ Sugapunk

I'll concede that's a great point.

@zedzee

I agree that NAS would be nice, but bugger all people would use it. What percentage of PS3 users do you think even own such a drive? Film rental on the other hand is far more universal.

20+ million PS3 owners out there, most of which could benefit from a film rental service. How many do you think would benefit from network drive mapping? A few thousand at best? Lets assume 20,000, which is optimistic. What is that, less than 0.1% of the userbase?

Maybe we will get it one day, and it would be great, but it would never take precedence over a service like this.



And as for whether anyone is copying anyone else. ZZZZzzzzzzz
Who cares dude, really, who cares.

One question, if you are English, but live in Spain...what languages will these be in?

WHERE IS THIS SERVICE?

EDIT: just found it, but Joe Public wont - if the interface isn't clear enough.

ok, what's the story with the video store in Ireland?

Now that the French have cheated their way to the World cup, I'll have some spare TV viewing hours next summer.

@Rize

I think the fact that it is under the "Video" XMB category makes it obvious/annoying to be fair

@ kangarootoo:

Network mapping would resolve a great deal of the storage issues that people are experiencing with their consoles and would, quite possibly, put an end to that debate, as well as help the console vendors in their pricing strategy, free of concerns for pricing in bigger and bigger HDD capacities.

It really shouldn't be technical impossible to achieve; I'm sure a firmware update would be in line to introduce such a feature, with possibly third parties picking up the challenge to offer such devices and make them even more user-friendly than the ones currently on the market.

NAS devices are not an alien concept in the PC world. They also make a great deal of sense, when you consider the PC, the odd console or three, hand-helds, set top boxes, MP3 players and so on can all benefit from such a central hub. Coupling this with many NAS devices acting as FTP/HTTP and streaming servers, and you're potentially looking at a central hub that all home devices can utilise.

I agree that some people prefer to simply rent - I don't think that's ever been a problem for concerns over storage - and that market will I'm sure be served just fine by this feature that Sony is introducing. However, more people prefer to own what they're purchasing and if a convenient way (like a NAS device) means they can keep their purchases centrally and not worry about running out of HDD space on their consoles, then I'm sure the ability to map the PS3 to a NAS device would be great.

As for the "whether anyone is copying anyone else", well, of course it matters. If one vendor is simply copying the other, then they're not innovating and distinguishing themselves. If they're simply copying each other then they're not being competitive and offering anything interestingly new.

If you think "who cares", then you might as well go down to Blockbusters or rent on-line from NetFlix or someone else like that - I'm sure there's plenty on offer, so then what would be the point of Sony and Microsoft offering the same thing through their respective consoles at all?

the only problem i have is why are the latest releases SD only?

Happy to be corrected on this, but aren't NAS devices (consumer ones) NTFS formatted by default and that is proprietary to M$?

As for storage being an issue, you can add 320GB for £40 without the need for anything hanging off the side of your PS3 so it's not a massive issue, IMO. If you want to use existing storage, there is that PS3 Media Server PC software available, not really played with it but seemed to work fine with my NAS.

50+ a week? I hope none of you actually believe that stuff.

@gamesprogrammer Might have something to do with the fact that Sony are in the film industry and MS aren't.

the selection of films is pretty impressive already - lots of new stuff, a good few left-fielders and a very nice selection of terrible horror (leprechaun 4- in space, leprechaun 5 - in the hood, troll 2 oh my gooooosssssssshhh : D )

much better than i actually hoped it would be

wow this kicks the xbox's arse, well done sony wished i had a ps3 the rental prices seem on par with rental stores as well so thats a good move.

Wished xbox would add a few more films though, the new 1080p is pretty cool but there is only shit films lol

Zedzee: I stream from my NAS to my PS3 using Twonkymedia. Unfortunately, the software is now desupported. And it's fairly flaky.

I'd be all for 'mapping' my NAS in the XMB - not sure how feasible it is though.

@Zedzee: Well stuff like the free DLNA based ps3media server do in practice let you use an external network machine for storage. But remember on the PS3 you can buy any 2.5 inch HD and put in and also connect any USB drive, so adding even local storage is simple.

Dammit - I want the PS3's movie selection with 360s' Zune movie streaming technology and LoveFilm's prices!