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Article written by nofi in PS3, on Friday, November 27, 2009 at 11:30.
It’s not an update to the servers, though, which last time we checked were dramatically underpowered, with our first attempt at watching a HD movie aborted after 6 hours of fruitless downloading. No, for those of you with quick enough connections, the PlayStation Movie Delivery Service is now getting some new films: Terminator Salvation, Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Bruno, Star Trek, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and “many more“!
Sounds great, although we were told the Video Store would update with “50 new titles every week” when we attended the rather grand opening launch party for the service. Interesting, then, that even most of the titles listed above as ‘new’ are already up there – let’s hope the Store updates with a good selection this evening, or whenever it is that the thing updates. As for the speed, well, I’m assuming that’ll all come soon enough, because I personally can’t even stream a trailer.
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Shadow106 | 27/11/2009 11:36
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I also had problems streaming the trailers and I am on a 20Mbit connection, hopefully it can only improve from now on.
cc_star | 27/11/2009 11:51
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Its pointless me even trying then
RadioactiveMouse | 27/11/2009 11:56
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I get relatively good speeds for downloads even though my connection is 0.5 Mbps.
Store downloads aren’t too horrific. Haven’t tried the movie store yet though
skibadee | 27/11/2009 15:03
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1/2mb never got to watch one trailer yet just scrambled eggs.
davidjmclare | 27/11/2009 16:59
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you wont have good speen downloads for movies, i get 8.7mbps and waited forever for angels and demons hd. the vid store sucks, ill stick to virgin rentals
JamboGT | 27/11/2009 17:20
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I have to be honest, I have tried this twice and watched the films right from the start. It was if it was streaming, guesss I was lucky.
RadioactiveMouse | 27/11/2009 11:50
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As usual with any new release of a service across all platforms, speed and availability of the servers is not great.
It can only get better though…hopefully
I would have liked the same amount of interaction on the blog for videos as is for the current store update by Mike Kebby
Kitch | 27/11/2009 11:51
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Sony seem to be messing this up. Less than impressed with the service and as for 50 a week? Never gonna happen. Oh and it’s expensive and the sound is crap and there is a complete lack of HD content or rentals. Yeah so average service. No wonder their not advertising it. “It only does everything” (small print: Badly if your in the EU)
RadioactiveMouse | 27/11/2009 11:54
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Haha I like your last line
I reckon the 50 a week is the summation of new content such as new rental content on existing “buy-only” titles.
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 11:55
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Expensive? Really? On a par with Blockbuster and itunes so…….? I agree the Stereo sound sucks but the picture quality on HD is spot on .
I dont see why they won’t keep up with the 50 per week comment. They made a similar commitment to Singstar and although it was a slow start they are (still) releasing a decent amount of content regularly.
Kitch | 27/11/2009 12:00
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a lot of Blu-rays are cheaper to buy by quite a lot. They need some serious promo work. You can get a huge range of BR stuff new for about £7.
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 12:09
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Yeah I’m only looking at it from a rental perspective, as thats all I’d use it for.
RadioactiveMouse | 27/11/2009 12:16
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I haven’t seen any decent Blu-rays for £7 new.
I agree though that SD content pricing is pretty high. It’s almost as if Sony take the RRP as gospel regardless of reality. Not even places like HMV stick to the RRP most of the time
davidjmclare | 27/11/2009 17:02
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if you look around you can deffo get blu rays for as little as £7 new – not newly released, but still new. I rarely pay more than £10 for a bluray
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 11:51
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These movies were already on there.
But Bruno and Star Trek (at least) were ‘buy’ only, is the update that they are now up for rental?
lewis815 | 27/11/2009 11:53
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To be fair its a new service so give it some slack.
My usual defense of the PSN is that its free.. But erm.. This isnt free at all, so hopefully they sort this sharpish.
cc_star | 27/11/2009 11:55
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Free?
Didn’t realise they were giving away free consoles and free games, cool – can you let me know your supplier, ta.
lewis815 | 27/11/2009 11:58
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PSN, not PS3.
cc_star | 27/11/2009 12:00
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Obviously, but you do realise you’re paying for it don’t you?
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 12:10
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Not sure what you’re getting at; I paid for it when I bought my ps3 but what am I paying towards it now?
cc_star | 27/11/2009 12:26
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Sony pays for the PSN’s running costs… who pays Sony? Magical but generous pixies?
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 12:33
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The publishers and developers pay pretty hefty fees to Sony which contribute to much of the PSNs running costs.
Your basic point seems to be that nothing is free and we all pay for it in some way; correct me if I’m wrong. Based on that you’re saying free DLC doesn’t exist because its funded by you buying the original game. Also free websites don’t exist because they’re funded through advertising and that money comes from their customers.
cc_star | 27/11/2009 12:38
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Next you’ll be trying to tell me the NHS is free, and not a hugely expensive tax rip-off which I can get for a fraction of the price by actually *shock horror* paying for it
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 12:45
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No but to those that don’t pay tax it’s free to them.
I was just trying to be clear about the point you were making. Nothing is free, you always pay for it somewhere down the line. As they say “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”.
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 13:16
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Whats your point CC? I don’t remember paying any £40 subscription fees for the PSN like I would on certain other consoles. Seems to me like your just spoiling for a row ?
cc_star | 27/11/2009 13:20
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1) it’s about 26 quid… it’s no more £40 than MW2 is £55
2) The point is Sony or the publishers are paying for it and who pays them? we do obviously
3) No row, just the fact that there isn’t a free lunch and some waking up and smelling the coffee of the real world of economics, its a fact that the PSN costs money to run and its not funded by a charity. fact.
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 13:39
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Alright mate. Obviously got a bee in your bonnet today. I’m out,
:)
cc_star | 27/11/2009 13:42
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Nah, I just get really tired of ‘its free’ being dragged out everytime it doesn’t seem to run to plan.
davidjmclare | 27/11/2009 17:06
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considering when i bought my ps3, sony made a loss on that sale, then the psn is free.
lewis815 | 27/11/2009 12:03
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You know what I mean. But yes you have to buy the console, and the console works perfectly. The extra addition of PSN is however free, other than DLC etc which works fine for me whenever I use it. No need to get so technical, my initial comment was basically saying that the video delivery service is an issue that needs to be fixed and isn’t acceptable.
Kitch | 27/11/2009 12:08
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Don’t get CC on about the free service. Facts are PSN is a bit crap and the defense of it being free is waring thin. And the online aspect is HUGE but not being done properly.
lewis815 | 27/11/2009 12:10
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Yeah I noticed haha. Although personally, I am one of those lucky ones that has never had a problem with the PSN. I’ve personally had more lag and problems with Xbox Live than PSN but I guess its down to experience, and perhaps the most noted cases are on PSN.
The only problem I have with PSN is that it doesn’t have a lot of the party features that Xbox has like party chat and easy game joining systems etc (other than MW2 that did it quite well)
djdustb | 27/11/2009 12:08
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I noticed some new films on there that were not on there yesterday AM but this was yesterday night so not entirely sure when the updates happen. With regards to the issues with downloading I am running a 16MB line that is pretty much running at full speed, I have so far only downloaded a SD film (i’m tight like that) but that gave me problems . Might have to give an HD one a shot to see how that looks.
Yung Jones | 27/11/2009 12:09
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Unlike the US store we haven’t got any anime
. Naruto needs to be on my PS3..
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 12:17
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Is the update actually going live today because on the videostore section of playstation uk website it has release dates for the video store which are all Monday’s
http://videostore.uk.playstation.com/
bunimomike | 27/11/2009 12:32
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Golden Rule: Do a few things well, not several things badly. Sony, take note.
carlosfilippsen | 27/11/2009 12:41
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Update the servers first before adding new stuff? Whats the point in adding new films when its going to take you 6+ hours to get to watch it. I rather walk down to blockbusters.
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 12:48
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New servers for the psn are being added during December, January and February.
nofi | 27/11/2009 12:56
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No they’re not! =)
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 13:17
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I’ve read elsewhere they are – I’ll try and find the link
jimmy-google | 27/11/2009 13:25
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Here’s the link
http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Online/ps3-trophy-sync-issues-to-be-remedied-with-faster-psn-in-2010/
3shirts | 27/11/2009 12:55
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This is the SingStore all over again! Promise of thousands, reality of a few dozen!
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 13:28
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Singstar UK currently has 1082 songs.
Released Dec 07, 30(?) songs with the disc.
Approx average of 40 songs per month?
Hmmmm a few dozen? Do you even own Singstar?
shields_t | 27/11/2009 13:21
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Has anyone found any HD films to buy?
It seems daft to have big tentople releases like Star Trek and Terminator salvation only available to buy in SD on a piece of kit that is supposed to convince everyone to go out and buy a Bravia.
Tuffcub | 27/11/2009 13:30
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No, you cant buy HD films.. there is a reason
cc_star | 27/11/2009 13:35
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Cannibalising Blu-ray sales is most probably the reason.
shields_t | 27/11/2009 13:51
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I see, it’s a pity. I for one would still buy Blurays even if I was given the option to download HD movies.The download option is all the better for those drunken impulse PSN splurges.
w3r3w0lf | 27/11/2009 13:40
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Yet another “blog” feature that is lacking in comparison to the US one. With regards to the US Game store update, on the blog they list the file sizes of everything, on the UK one it’s been said that they only way they could do that would be if they downloaded each one individually. (ie it’s not SCEE’s fault). A similar thing now with the Movie store update. With regards to the US one, the blog lists everything HD and SD that has been added. On EU blog, response to number 8 when asked “Any chance of a proper breakdown this week. Because I would like to see the 50 that were added this week without having to navigate the store constantly”, the reply was “It’s not up to us really” !!??. Well, if it’s not up to SCEE who are adding to the titles to the store, then who’s job is it?
w3r3w0lf | 27/11/2009 13:41
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** sorry for the block of text, i’ll use paragraphs next time**
Damigos | 27/11/2009 13:48
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Everyone stop talking about video service, except if you can bring it to Greece too !
dirtyhabit | 27/11/2009 13:56
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Oh You’re from Greece?
Why didn’t you say?
*sarc*