Sony clarifies video downloading issue News
PlayStation 3 News by Ellie Gibson
Sony has confirmed you will be able to play games while downloading content from the new Video PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service - providing you're playing offline.
"During online gameplay the background download of both games and videos may be slowed or paused. This is to ensure the user has enough bandwidth to seamlessly play online without interruption or have a poor gaming experience," a technical type explained.
"Once the gameplay doesn't require the additional bandwidth, the background download can be restarted or will continue normally."
In other words, you might struggle to download a film and play a game online at the same time - but when playing offline you won't have a problem.
Following today's earlier story regarding the PSN video service, Sony has also provided us with an update regarding whether the Police Academy series will appear in the store. European product marketing director Mark Hardy had this to say: "So far only Police Academy 3, 5 and 6 will be available in the German store."
At least that includes Assignment Miami Beach, but what about Mission to Moscow? And who cares if they're in German, apart from 82 million German people?
"If your readers really want these films as you suggest, we'll try and get them on the service," said Hardy. Come on Eurogamer readers, speak up in the comments below! YES WE CAN!
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EarlBassett
19/11/09 @ 14:23
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I'm happy, Miami Beach is my favourite.
I'd quite like to experience it through the eyes of our German friends too. I bet Tackleberry is even more imposing with a Deutsch accent |
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DPRBassman
19/11/09 @ 14:27
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no police academy but there is leprechaun 4 in space and leprechaun 5 in da hood
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Ken_Shinka
19/11/09 @ 14:31
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Mission To Moscow....urghh, in a series of "so bad they're good" comedies that was the one that crossed the line. First six are top notch but I can live without MTM.
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TravisTouchdown
19/11/09 @ 14:36
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Anyone who picks a sans-Guttenberg instalment as their favourite Academy does not know a damn thing about them.
Miami Beach, I ask you. |
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M_of_the_sys
19/11/09 @ 14:45
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Aren't the PA films too violent for Germany?
At what time does the video store go live? |
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jefranklin18
19/11/09 @ 14:51
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I am sorry but there must be some heavily tinted glasses involved here. None of the Police Academy films were any good, the first was a poor copy of Stripes and the rest should never have existed. I think Homer Simpson's line when berating Bart about him stealing from a store sums it up: "Didn't you learn anything from all those Police Academy movies I took you to? It wasn't for entertainment, I don't remember anyone laughing, do you?!"
Nostalgia is dangerous :) |
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So... where is this service, then?
It's not exctly getting much promotion from Sony themselves... edit: I've just found it after dicking about in the PS Store. Teh interface is all over the place in typical Sony style. Choose 'rent' and get options for more movies to buy...
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most recently on 19/11/09 @ 15:13
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TonyHarrison
19/11/09 @ 15:21
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You should get on to them and ask if they will ever have some kind of subscription service in the future.
Say £x per month for x number of downloads, kind of like online rental places have... |
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@Ryze :"edit: I've just found it after dicking about in the PS Store. Teh interface is all over the place in typical Sony style."
Yep, it's horrendous. "We'll arrange the films by Studio only, that's a good idea. And the results will be a weird pseudo-random order rather than alphabetically arranged or anything remotely usable!" "Erm boss, shouldn't we arrange them by genre too so people can easily find them, and maybe if people type a film name into the search box we should return it as a search result?" "Silence you fool" *thwack* And it ain't available in Ireland either, but the French get it. Once more we're thwarted by our (new) nemeseses!! I'm blaming Thierry Henry. (Urrgh, a football joke. I feel dirty) |
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almighty-slayer
19/11/09 @ 15:50
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jonfon
Umm...They are organised by genre. And there is a search option. I don't see your point... |
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EarlBassett
19/11/09 @ 15:50
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The Playstation store is a jumbled mess.
I tend to go to the US store as at least you can find new PS3 demos in one section. Unlike the UK store where they are either in stupid categories or mixed in with premium wallpapers and all that shit |
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@almighty-slayer:"Umm...They are organised by genre. And there is a search option. I don't see your point..."
Are they? Where? Cannae see genres on http://videostore.uk.playstation.com/ I could be blind of course. And the Search box, when I type in "Coraline" returns nada for me. |
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DestroyOhBoy!
19/11/09 @ 16:06
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I always remember an exchange that took place after a girlfriend of mine at the time made a caustic remark, we all looked at her with a mixture of dismay and dewilderment:
Her: I just wanted to be one of the boys. One of the boys: Can't you be one of the boys that doesn't say a thing. Wise words Ellie, wise words. |
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TonyHarrison - I did ask them if there were any plans for a deal like the Netflix one Xbox 360 users have in the US. The answer was a pretty stock "It's something we might consider but right now we're focused on this download service." Sorry I didn't include this in the story, but I was trying to focus on the really important issues as I'm sure you can see.
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almighty-slayer
19/11/09 @ 16:47
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@jonfon
Sorry i must have misunderstood you. I thought you were talking about the store on the console, where you actually buy them from *confused*. On there you just select "Category" and you get 10 different genres to look in, and "other", and there's the usual "search" option on the top menu bar |
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@almighty-slayer
No worries. Thought we might be talking about 2 different things alright. I don't have the console (yet) and was looking at the UK site mostly to get an idea of what was available (so I can use it as ammo towards being allowed to get one for Xmas from my wife). I've used the PSN store on my PSP and it is getting better (especially the genre page load times). But the accompanying websites are still very messy. They do have Categories associated with each move alright, but there's no way to browse by it. |
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sinelinden
19/11/09 @ 17:07
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Sex & The City fans that we PS3 gamers are, don't we deserve to see Kim Cattrall (and Steve Guttenberg) in the criminally overlooked for Oscars Police Academy ?
Currently I own it on VHS, NTSC VHS, DVD, Region A Blu-Ray and Super 8. I just need the PS download to complete my collection. |
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justsomeone
19/11/09 @ 17:31
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looks like some people on this comments thread need to have their irony glands inspected. could be a blockage.
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Tell you what tho, I'd happily pay for a premium PSN subscription if it means I DON"T get access to the Police Academy films... actually, add the Harry Potter films to that list while we're at it.
Yep, about £10 a month to not watch any of those films would be fine - granted I'm paying a lot less than that now, but this way I'd have the added benefit of not watching them in HD. Once you haven't seen these films in HD, there's just no turning back. |
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Ornithophobe
20/11/09 @ 08:22
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I may be going mad but it looks like anything I might hire is only available to buy, and most of the stuff you can hire I could get on DVD for a pound or two more.
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