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Sony launches PS3 Video Delivery Service
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 19th November 2009
Sony has announced the launch of the Video Delivery Service, which has more than 800 films available.
Sony plans to grow the video store, which is accessible through the PlayStation Store following a new firmware update, at a consistent rate too - promising 50 new films every week.
The Video Delivery Service carries both HD and SD films from a number of major studios and publishers including 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company 1, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Starz Media, Universal, and Warner Bros. No adult films yet then.
Films are available to both rent for a limited period (from £2.49) or buy (from £6.99), with HD titles obviously costing a little bit more than the SD versions. Titles can be transferred between Sony devices too, which is nice if you're wanting to take films with you on the go.
Sony is currently running an offer to celebrate the launch too, allowing you to get a free copy of The Da Vinci Code if you buy Angels & Demons. New PlayStation 3 owners who register for a PSN account between now and the end of the month will also be able to get a free download of Transformers 2 - yay!
“The launch of the PlayStation Network video delivery service extends our entertainment offering and provides consumers with another way to access their favourite movies, whether at home or on the go,” said Sony Computer Entertainment president Andrew House.
We were at the official launch of the new service last night and got a quick chance to have a fiddle with the Video Delivery Service and our impression was that it was quite good and functional, despite the un-catchy name.
Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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This is good news - might be able to junk my Lovefilm account if the selection is good and the rental option allows me a reasonable period to watch something I download.
If you're only using your PS3 for gaming, you're missing out. We use it primarily for media, but being able to recommend 1 box which is easier to use than *any* off the shelf blue ray player, which also allows your grandparents to see nieces and nephews down under... it's just fantastic.
The controls are simplistic in the extreme, they pick up how to use it way faster than they learned setting the clock on the cooker. The video chat works extremely well, the eye toy has a fantastic microphone.
Plus you can finally show them the intarwebs on a semi respectable web browser, certainly good enough to hit bbc.co.uk/news when its too wet out to walk round to the corner shop...
But can it play soft subbed anime with dual audio in the form of an mkv container? If no then that's the exact reason I would choose to build a HTPC than buy a media player, having to transcode video just to burn subtitles pisses me off to the extreme >.>
Will be interesting to see it in action and if there are any quality/buffering issues.
Wish someone would break the mold in the UK and come out with a monthly subscription system like Netflix in the US, I know Lovefilm are testing this but I believe that its still windows only and requires a browser so not ideal for a HTPC/living room set up yet
I'm really hoping that the "yay!" at the end there was sarcasm. Because that movie was the second biggest *******ization of an iconic cartoon series behind GI.JOE. >:(
Odd, I didn't think that a word that stood for "fatherless child" would be considered offensive enough to be banned but eh, I figure you guys can deduce the message I was trying to convey.