Sony: No PAL video store this year

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 17th July 2008
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Sony: No PAL video store this year

Sony has confirmed that the new video store feature for PS3 will not be available to PAL territories this year.

Sony Europe's David Reeves has confirmed that the new video store feature announced for the PlayStation 3 at E3 2008 will not be available in PAL territories, such as the UK, in 2008.

The new video store system will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy both standard and high definition films which can then be downloaded directly to the PS3's hard drive.

Best of all though, those videos can then be transferred around freely to the Sony PSP so that gamers can watch them on the go. It may be a bit of a squeeze getting a feature length high-def movie onto a Memory Stick Duo, sure, but it's cool nonetheless. Or at least, it would be if UK gamers could have a look at it anytime soon.

"This will not come to the PAL markets this year," said Sony's David Reeves in a press conference today according to Eurogamer.

"But Sir Howard Stringer has made the commitment that it will come to all regions in due course and it will. The dates and content for the video download service will be announced later this year," continued Reeves.

"For us...local content is key and that is exactly what we're working on right now."

Annoyed at the lack of global support for the feature, or do you think it'll be worth the wait? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
Quote phat-ant 17th July 2008, 11:08
Yes annoyed that time after time we get treated as second class users, yet are forced to pay more than the rest. Just typical. I have a ps3 purely for the blu-ray player movies / tv etc... so this feature might be appealing altho it will most likely be well overpriced.
Quote Paradigm Shifter 17th July 2008, 11:16
The ability to have it transferable to the PSP is an OK idea - at least you're not totally locked down... but I'd hope that they're re-encode it on the fly (given the (supposed?) strength of the Cell processor) so that it's the right size for the PSP screen, and so that it doesn't chew up a 4GB MemoryStick as if it were free.

I'm not totally surprised by this, either. In the modern tech climate, having anything other than simultaneous worldwide release is shortsighted and rather foolish... but when have the big corporations ever seen sense before? Usually it takes something fairly major smacking them in the face to get them to change their thinking.
Quote cjoyce1980 17th July 2008, 11:17
no surprise at all
Quote M4RTIN 17th July 2008, 11:19
not a great shock i guess.. took microsoft ages to get movie downloads to pal regions too, and if you look at all the tv american xbox owners can download aswell we are a good year behind them at least. seems like its the same old same old for both companies
Quote Liquid K9 17th July 2008, 12:14
when will big corps figure out its a world market, even for us 'little people'. These sorts of delays, even if legitimate, agitate customers like myself and disenfranchise them.

we already pay a premium just because we're european. and you twist the knife by delaying content, :(
Quote Krikkit 17th July 2008, 12:24
A lot of these problems can't be helped - a lot of international services have either been completely cancelled or won't arrive for a long time through legal issues. You Sony-haters should take a chill-pill, because it's not really their fault.

Would you rather have the international customers wait for us? Do you really want that kind of double standard?
Quote Liquid K9 17th July 2008, 12:27
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Originally Posted by Krikkit
A lot of these problems can't be helped - a lot of international services have either been completely cancelled or won't arrive for a long time through legal issues. You Sony-haters should take a chill-pill, because it's not really their fault.

Would you rather have the international customers wait for us? Do you really want that kind of double standard?

I dont remember the last time I heard of a single event where any region other than the EU had delays like this. Its clear, we are not their priority. thats what pisses me off - we are still customers. we deserve respect for that fact.
Quote mikeuk2004 17th July 2008, 12:31
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will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy

Whats a rend?? lol :p

Anyway..Suprised? No... We had to wait fot he xbox 360 rental store for ages so why should it be any different with sony?

Only difference is that when we get the sony one, i am more than likely to use it over the xbox 360 one because of storage space. Too expensive to buy a small 120GB hard drive for the 360 and then your movie is restricted too the console.

With the PS3 we can get a much larger and cheaper drive and also back up the film on a external drive or PC if needed.
Quote Romirez 17th July 2008, 13:04
heh, no surprise. Precisely this kind of treatment that's the reason for me not having either a ps3 or a 360.
Wouldn't be surprised to find it's the european commission that's at fault as much as sony.
Quote Blademrk 17th July 2008, 13:07
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Originally Posted by mikeuk2004
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will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy

Whats a rend??

That's where you download the film and add your own CGI effects
Quote rollo 17th July 2008, 15:31
no shock

360 took 1 year from usa release to uk release for the downloads

dont expect to see sony do it much quicker

As mensioned above more likely to use it due to hard disk space though
Quote delriogw 17th July 2008, 19:56
"The new video store system will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy both standard and high definition films which can then be downloaded directly to the PS3's hard drive."

that would be RENT then?
Quote Liquid K9 17th July 2008, 20:00
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Originally Posted by delriogw
"The new video store system will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy both standard and high definition films which can then be downloaded directly to the PS3's hard drive."

that would be RENT then?



yes people, the unthinkable happened. someone published an article where the letter T was substituted by the letter D, and the world couldnt possibly understand what it was about, because there was no context.

grow up
Quote docodine 18th July 2008, 08:01
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Originally Posted by Liquid K9
Quote:
Originally Posted by delriogw
"The new video store system will allow gamers (in the US that is) to rend and buy both standard and high definition films which can then be downloaded directly to the PS3's hard drive."

that would be RENT then?



yes people, the unthinkable happened. someone published an article where the letter T was substituted by the letter D, and the world couldnt possibly understand what it was about, because there was no context.

grow up

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