PSP video downloads this summer Related content
- News Sony reveals Go!View retail deals [4]
- News Go!View gets fancy Christmas content [9]
- News Premiership football headed to Go!View [13]
PSP video downloads this summer News
PSP News by Robert Purchese
PlayStation and Sky plan to release the Go!View video on demand service for PSP across Europe this summer.
This lets you download your favourite telly pursuits for your handheld (via your PC) and then watch them back whenever the fancy takes you.
You can do this either on a pay-per-view or subscription basis. No prices were mentioned.
The release also skips over which countries this will be available in, with Sony Europe boss David Reeves telling us last August that it was only the UK, Ireland and maybe Italy that it had in mind.
Reeves mentioned that the content would be rented rather than owned, as well.
Go!View forms part of the Go! portfolio offering PSP owners things like instant messaging and voice communication, or satellite-navigating software so you know where you're going.
Related Games
Go!View
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
Comments: 1-17 of 17 in total
|
light&shadow
24/04/08 @ 12:16
0
Why on earth is the pc mandatory to download stuff to the psp. When I got my PSP, I was dreaming about download services that would gradually become available directly from the psp browser, guess it still a dream for now. Not that it matters much since here in belgium that particular service is not supposed to be available anyway. But come on, what a waste of opportunities sony.
|
|
0
Perhaps I'm missing something here... but isn't that PS3 PTV recorder thingy going to enable you to record TV for free and send it around your home network onto your PSP etc nice and easily... rendering this idea of paying for TV downloads on the PSP pointless from the off?
Granted the PS3 thing may be freeview stuff only but still...
Edited 1 times,
most recently on 24/04/08 @ 13:34
|
|
DanWhitehead
24/04/08 @ 12:47
0
Not all PSP owners have a PS3, clearly, and if the deal is with Sky then it will cover shows not included in the Freeview package.
|
|
bodypopper
24/04/08 @ 12:58
0
It's just an extra revenue generator for Sky really. It's been talking about a mobile TV solution for ages but rather than develop a Sky handheld it's just using an existing one with a well known brand name. Smart move really.
|
|
DaveBassant
24/04/08 @ 13:51
0
It seems soooo pointless having to downoad it onto your pc and then transfer it to your psp!
If a psp is going to be truly mobile then you should be able to download straight to the psp from services like this. On a similar note, I reckon psp's desperately need to be able to transfer music and what-not wirelessly using its remote play function. Connecting devices together with cables is surely old-hat by now! |
|
kangarootoo
25/04/08 @ 08:24
0
The way people are talking you would think that renting films was a new thing. What on earth is wrong with rental?
|
Comments: 1-17 of 17 in total
Want to comment on this article? Log in, or register!
