UK PlayStation Video Store Films Announced
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UK PlayStation Video Store Gets Release Date
Article written by nofi in PS3 News, on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 15:30.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is excited to reveal a “Must have” list of blockbuster hit films that will be available on the PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service before Christmas.
From action packed thrillers to a little something for the kids, there will be a host of fantastic films that all the family are sure to enjoy, some of which include: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Bruno, Angels & Demons, Casino Royale, Crank 2: High Voltage and The Hills Have Eyes.
The service will allow movie fans to download the latest releases straight to their PlayStation 3 and PSP for viewing at home or on the go from this November in France, Germany, Spain and the UK with other markets to follow in 2010.
The video store will offer high quality entertainment, available to buy or to rent, from major movie studios including 20th Century Fox, Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, Lionsgate, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Starz Media, Universal, and Warner Bros. In additional, a number of local studios will be announced closer to launch.
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nouveller | 03/11/2009 16:07
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Noice.
Dexter17 | 03/11/2009 16:13
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Noice?
stingraz | 03/11/2009 16:15
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they do look noice though dexter – you have to admit that..
Dexter17 | 03/11/2009 16:49
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I didn’t say that they didn’t look noice, but I just thought that it was a weird choice of wording.
stingraz | 03/11/2009 16:54
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-_- sarcasm overload.. overload..overload. I was joking, and i’m picking up sarcasm dripping off of your last comment too!
Bilbo_bobbins | 03/11/2009 17:16
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sounds more like south london accent? Noice mate, noice!
Amphlett | 03/11/2009 18:16
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Eh, leave arght mate, a’right.
hazelam | 04/11/2009 10:16
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sounds more like an irish accent to me.
BadBoyBoogie | 04/11/2009 10:55
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Sounds a bit Northern to me!!
zillah | 04/11/2009 21:09
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i just assumed it was aussie. have you guys not heard of kath and kim?
cc_star | 03/11/2009 16:09
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Catchy name “PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service”
Gastos84 | 03/11/2009 16:11
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LOL I thought that.
theshockwave | 03/11/2009 16:14
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PNVDS doesn’t sound good either.
Ed the Penguin | 03/11/2009 16:25
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You could call it PSNVIDS – pronounce it “Pee-Ess-En-Vids”
theshockwave | 03/11/2009 16:58
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Lol, Ed you could have just called it ‘PSN Vids’, instead of writing it phonetically.
bunimomike | 03/11/2009 17:14
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Why not have it called the PSN Video & Games area. Or VAG for short.
Ed the Penguin | 04/11/2009 09:50
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@shockwave – could have, but I’m just awkward!
Tuffcub | 03/11/2009 18:35
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Playstation Entertainment Network Interactive Screener
cc_star | 03/11/2009 18:46
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Umm
That’s quite a mouthful
Timesh1993 | 03/11/2009 19:08
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as only you could do TC
theshockwave | 03/11/2009 20:19
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Awesome.
Ed the Penguin | 04/11/2009 09:49
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Seriously lmao!! You’ve just made my day!
sanmartinez | 04/11/2009 14:41
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best name ever =)
gazo69 | 03/11/2009 16:10
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Great news, i would however like some idea of pricing!
cc_star | 03/11/2009 16:13
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I suppose we’ll find out on the day
Gastos84 | 03/11/2009 16:11
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Looking forward to this.
Dexter17 | 03/11/2009 16:14
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Same here. But only if they have 2012 up there on the day of release.
Bilbo_bobbins | 03/11/2009 17:17
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yeah I think this is great for PSN. Looking forward to the renting more than anything, but I guess it depends on pricing again. If it can’t compete with Lovefilm for me, then I wont bother.
CCasey123 | 03/11/2009 16:22
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Is there any news on TV shows being released.
It’s the only reason I would use the service.
cc_star | 03/11/2009 16:24
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Yep, they have no plans for TV shows to come to the Euro version, for the time being.
jimmy-google | 03/11/2009 16:38
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Bit hard to justify TV programs when things like iplayer are around at no cost. Probably mor profitable to focus on movies than old TV shows.
hazelam | 03/11/2009 17:01
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tell that to itunes.
far as i’m concerned this video store is worthless until they get some tv shows.
CCasey123 | 03/11/2009 17:10
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If you look at the american video store they manage to justify the sale of TV shows.
Most video delivery services atm don’t show American imports – the type seen on the US store. Provided they stay up-to-date it’d give Sony an open market.
commuterzombie | 03/11/2009 17:19
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I think that there’s a massive rights issue with getting US TV shows out over here before they’re on Sky. Unless Sony do some serious lawyering we’re unlikely to get an interesting TV show offering.
Tuffcub | 03/11/2009 18:36
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Exactly – Sony are a movie company, they can badger other movie comapnies to join – Sony dont have any influence in the TV market and it would cost a fortune for them to buy shows before Sky.
xdarkmagician | 04/11/2009 02:26
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It’s the networks that allow digital downloads, and set the price and release time. The reason you don’t get them is because right now they make more money selling shows to Sky, and on DVD sales. It’s really more about US and UK networks working together to share than Sony pulling strings. Since companies like Sky buy the rights to broadcast US shows in the UK and charge to view them, they are probably fighting digital downloads since they stand to lose the most.
hazelam | 04/11/2009 16:21
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not only do sony own movie studios but tv studios too.
and itunes have loads of tv shows throughout europe.
if we don’t get them on the ps3 it’s down to scee not putting the work in.
iNsAnE_gAmInG | 03/11/2009 16:25
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That is cool. No word on quality of content though?
I’m only interested if I can get a Blu-Ray quality title that will not be a stupidly large file and it needs to be cheaper than if I buy it on disc.
Glad the service is finally coming close to release though.
deadwelsh | 03/11/2009 16:42
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“The video store will offer high quality entertainment”
This makes me think it will not be anywhere near bluray quality, DVD most prob, possibly up to 720p
carson321 | 03/11/2009 17:32
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i really doubt that is referring to the picture quality of the videos, more likely a general statement as in it wont be a load of crap movies
wedgehog | 03/11/2009 20:06
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If you download the announcement trailer off the PSN it’s in 720p – not that that really means anything; although i expect 1080p is unlikely as PSN download speeds are far too slow.
cc_star | 03/11/2009 20:14
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It makes no difference… the bittrate is more important than whether it’s 1080p or 720p
Blu-ray has a bitrate of 48mbps – and that aint going to be provided by a broadband provider for a good few years yet.
I’m a long time subscriber of SkyHD and when it first launched it broadcast in 1080i & 720p – It still does that, although I think the picture quality is far worse, and that is because they are cramming more HD channels on to the transponders meaning bitrate has to be lowered. and its because of this lowere bitrate that the quality is no where near what it was.
My point being, there is far more to a good picture than resolution alone
(sorry for waffling)
illogicology | 03/11/2009 20:25
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Waffle away, I think that the importance of bitrate is too often overlooked. I’ve recently bought Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on blu (for the girlfriend, honest.) I previously had the film as an HD file and the bitrate difference is enormous. In a specific scene the bitrate of the rip is 6mbps while the blu-ray is nearly 40mbps. On the same TV, same settings and shown through the same PS3, the quality is huge. Most importantly, the blu-ray on 720p still looks far better than the file on 1080p. What people don’t understand is that heavy video compression can destroy huge amounts of detail no matter what your resolution is.
wedgehog | 03/11/2009 20:07
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Blu-ray quality would be a large file though – there is a balance between quality and file size, unfortunately you can’t have both.
Matherz | 04/11/2009 13:51
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I can see it being quite interesting if you rent a movie and the filesize is huge.
For instance, lets say its a 24 hour rental (like on the Xbox equivelant) and you rented a film that was 2gb in size. Most normal people would spent most of that time downloading the film, which makes the service pointless.
Further more, if the films are going to be of DVD quality, why bother renting, it’s cheaper to buy if that is the case.
hazelam | 05/11/2009 08:07
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if it’s like the xbox service the 24hour period wouldn’t start until you actually started watching the movie.
and you can have the movie for 14 days before it expires, but once you watch it that reduces to just 24 hours.
of course if you start watching it before it’s finished downloading and lose your internet for 24 hours you’d be stuffed.
powler | 03/11/2009 16:25
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Is the video service coming to Ireland does anyone know?
X201 | 03/11/2009 16:37
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France, Germany, Spain and the UK
Now if the UK had helped out during the famine your forefathers wouldn’t have felt so aggrieved and would probably have spent easter 1916 tucking into their Easter eggs instead. The upshot being that many decades later the Video Store arrives on both sides of the Irish Sea at the same time.
But that’s history for you
ghosthunter68 | 03/11/2009 16:26
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There was mention in the EU Blog post for last weeks store update “Now for a small announcement, this is advance warning about next week; we are only releasing a small update next week as we have some behind the scenes work (nothing exciting, but necessary) underway, so we’ll have minimal time to update the store – normal service will resume from the 12th however” Could it be appearing on the 12th.
nofi | 03/11/2009 16:27
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Quite probably, yes.
BryOnRye | 03/11/2009 16:37
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Mike Kebby (think thats his name) said that the vid store is being managed by a completely different team to the ones in charge of the store so this minimal update is nothing to do with the vid store.
wedgehog | 03/11/2009 20:09
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“available on the PlayStation Network Video Delivery Service before Christmas.” – so it’s no longer even garenteed for ‘november’
xdarkmagician | 04/11/2009 02:37
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What they mean is that you’ll get the store in Nov, but some of the titles they mentioned i.e. Harry Potter and the 50% blood prince will not be available until it’s released on DVD/Br…sometime before christmas.
hazelam | 04/11/2009 16:23
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just don’t be surprised if it doesn’t launch till december, this is scee we’re dealing with, “on time” just isn’t in their vocabulary.
jackshiels | 03/11/2009 16:28
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Yeah is Ireland happening too? It said so on the first press release…
gazzagb | 03/11/2009 17:01
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Yes Ireland will be getting it too. I think Ireland is considered UK from Sony’s point of view.
jackshiels | 03/11/2009 17:40
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Link?
fogcity94 | 04/11/2009 12:04
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You think that’s bad?
Australia is part of the UK as far as Sony’s concerned.
colmshan1990 | 08/11/2009 23:15
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Yes. Here’s proof: “Available at launch in the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany and Spain, the service will be rolled out to more countries throughout 2010.”
http://ie.playstation.com/games-media/news/articles/detail/item229614/Entertainment-for-all-at-gamescom/
I love SCEE.
Or not. Here’s proof: (Reply to comment 301) “Hi Raider (and all the Irish store users who have asked). The Video Store launches in the UK, so I’m afraid this does not include your store. The Video store team have told me that you will be getting your own store however, I’m just not able to give you a timeframe just yet – but there will be more information coming soon.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Mike”
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/08/27/%E2%80%98heads-up%E2%80%99-playstation-store-update-27th-august-2009/comment-page-7/#comments
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Yung Jones | 03/11/2009 16:28
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Yup definitely gonna grab the Hannah Montana movie! Somplesz
Yung Jones | 03/11/2009 16:29
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I typed “Simplesz” damn it!
masoke | 03/11/2009 16:53
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No, you didn’t.
Soild_Nat | 03/11/2009 16:30
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Need some prices first before i get all excited…. still we are in November so only a few weeks before a new shiny store to grumble about updates and prices compared with the US. Sony get ready for double the complaints on F5 Thursday!
GamerRiley | 03/11/2009 16:31
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This is great, would be even better if we found out the price of the rentals were cheap as chips.
How much then?, do we know yet?
gazo69 | 03/11/2009 17:00
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The pricing is not yet known, but i get Top Titles for £2.50 from my local vid shop! So they don’t want to be too expensive or i won’t bother!
Plus it’s rent one rent one free at the min at my shop, i wonder if the vid store will ever do offers like that!
Broonba | 03/11/2009 16:36
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Nice one Sony!!……..as long as they’re not too dear, I could be tempted
wedgehog | 03/11/2009 20:10
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Yeah – if they get the price right then the demand will be phenomenal. (hint: @Sony for the price lower is better)
cc_star | 03/11/2009 20:20
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I subscribe to online DVD/Blu-ray/Game rental services so for me it would need to be cheaper than that per month, unfortunately I have doubts that it will be.
cheekyMcB | 03/11/2009 16:39
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Bet you the renting total will vastly outnumber the buying. Most people prefer a physical product when it comes to buying, especially as the films will permanently take up a hell of a lot of hard disk space that could be used for other things.
X201 | 03/11/2009 16:53
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It depends, if buying means you have the right to download to your console when you want it, then it could lead to people creating a library of films and then downloading them when they want a particular one.
djdustb | 03/11/2009 16:44
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Looking forward to this, doubt I will buy anything tend to limit what films I buy now, but rentals will be good if they are priced well enough to do battle against sky box office.