PSP video downloads this summer

By Robert Purchese Published 24 April, 2008

Sky Go!View initiative shapes up.

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.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • imamazed #1 4 years ago

    Much Much too late in the PSPs life. I can't see it being very popular and it's bound to be too expensive

  • Schiraman #2 4 years ago

    Not right keen on the idea of renting content, suppose it depends on the price though.

  • hobo57 #3 4 years ago

    SCEE in control of this? Expect a complete balls up...

  • Ryze #4 4 years ago

    Slow.

  • bad09 #5 4 years ago

    another useless video service where you can't keep what you pay for. I dread to think how much money these companies will milk us for if digital download did ever replace good old disks!

  • nailerr #6 4 years ago

    I just wish they would drop this GO! brand name, it makes everything sound cheap and nasty.

  • Ryze #7 4 years ago

    What happened to Sat-Nav? Delayed again?

    Freeview programmes from Sky / BBC / Ch4?

    No? Shame.

  • bushwod #8 4 years ago

    hmmmm, might consider this is the price is reasonable.

  • light&shadow #9 4 years ago

    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.

  • Cuke #10 4 years ago

    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 by 1 at 24/04/08 @ 13:34

  • DanWhitehead #11 4 years ago

    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 #12 4 years ago

    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.

  • liverpoolfc #13 4 years ago

    Where the hells the PSP GPS! It was suppose to come out in spring.

  • liverpoolfc #14 4 years ago

    Where the hells the PSP GPS! It was suppose to come out in spring.

  • DaveBassant #15 4 years ago

    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!

  • Redeye #16 4 years ago

    Was interested to start with, then they lost me with 'rented'. :\

  • kangarootoo #17 4 years ago

    The way people are talking you would think that renting films was a new thing. What on earth is wrong with rental?