Comments on: PlayStation Video Store: A Tale Of One Wednesday

By: Gamoc

Gamoc — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:25:18 +0000

It’s considerably worse to be invited TWICE and not be able to go, like I did. Grr.

By: Amphlett

Amphlett — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:26:28 +0000

I checked out the video store last night to see what was on offer. Some top films just out on DVD/BluRay so everything is good there. A pretty good sized back catalogue, very impressive at this early point in the store’s life. The prices? Hmm, the prices…
Transformers (the first one), been out on DVD for quite a while now and is available on play.com for £3.99. Let’s look on the PSN Video Store… £11.99 for SD. Huh? So I can have a tangible box, cover art, disc and the actual film to watch which I can play on any DVD player for £4 or just the film to watch on my PS3 for £12?
There are a few similar pricing issues on other films on the store. Maybe I’m just confused. Maybe, after getting back from last night’s Spanish class, my brain was little fried. I can’t for the life of me understand why I would want to pay 4 times the price for a film so that I can download it. Sure, in the dark ages before the internet the consumer found it hard to compare prices, at best it involved a jog between Woolworths and HMV but now I can check the best prices on my phone! Come on Sony, sort out the pricing.

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By: Raen

Raen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:59:42 +0000

He really doesn’t, someone fed him half a bottle of chilly vodka and he survived fine. Was annoyingly chirpy. It just further supports my ‘Davs is a robot’ theory.

By: Tuffcub

Tuffcub — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:43:50 +0000

Im “Towering” apperently. Im not, just everyone else in the world is a short arse. Was a good evening nice to meet the lads. Just back from the L4D2 launch party and we have a TSA exclusive video.. stay tuned

By: bunimomike

bunimomike — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:29:23 +0000

2½ hour films (in 720p) usually chime in for 5½-6GB or so. Not seen any 1080p films under 8GB. I’m going with .mkv files but appreciate that’s just a container so is that h.264 in there? Anyway, Sony would be helping a huge amount of they just mention 720p or 1080p in the details section when you click on a title thumbnail.

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:24:06 +0000

No idea if it’s all of them, but there are 1080p films.

By: ghost5

ghost5 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:14:20 +0000

I’ve no proof, but looking at the size of the HD films I would say 720p.

By: skibadee

skibadee — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:04:48 +0000

nice thx

By: dirtyhabit

dirtyhabit — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:46:53 +0000

Don’t worry. You will. :(

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:43:26 +0000

It was my understanding that when you backup your ps3 hdd it would backup your movies. Also whilst it is only one download, if you need to download it again you just contact sony. Annoying, yes. But it does mean you could get it again.

By: Danlord

Danlord — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:48 +0000

This may sound a little rudimentary or obvious, but what resolution is the standard definition and high definition films? I’m curious as I have not yet found any details for them and would like to know.

Thanks in advance,

By: Watchful

Watchful — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:41:46 +0000

You can back up and restore videos bought from the store so if you get a bigger HDD that’s not a problem. That was a firmware change a while back.

By: djhsecondnature

djhsecondnature — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:40:05 +0000

Yeah what Al said. Also I don’t get hangovers

By: cc_star

cc_star — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:37:41 +0000

1kb/week is the government’s stated aim for the UK isn’t it?

By: karlsquell

karlsquell — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:30:03 +0000

So here is my little rant!

Well i hate the video store as a store. Renting is fine but buying sucks for me.

First of all you can only download the bought movie once. Once as in 1 time.
Second you can’t transfer it to an external hdd to get a copy for safety reasons.

So all in all its like this. You buy a whole lot of movies and then your run out of hdd space. Whats next? Deleting a movie? That would be like throwing a DVD in the bin beacuse you are out of shelf space. Alright then get a new bigger hdd. No luck either because you cant transfer your old movies.
There are plenty of other ways to lose your movies like having your ps3 die.
There is just 1 conclusion (for me that is). Buying movies on psn is no good.
Maybe I’ll rent a few flicks but then again why not stream ‘em.

Anybody got a different opinion?

(source: videostore faq on psn webpage and the terms of use in psn)

By: dirtyhabit

dirtyhabit — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:15:37 +0000

LOL, At the rate Watchmen HD is downloading at the moment, I might just be ready to start watching it by then!

By: minerwilly

minerwilly — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:06:09 +0000

Thanks Nofi , right back to the Battlefield Beta .

By: nofi

nofi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:05:18 +0000

I think you get 2 weeks to start a film, and then once started it lasts 48 hours.