Sony to Bring Movie Downloads to PlayStation 3, Report Says
Sony will debut a movie download service for PlayStation 3 owners starting this summer, according to reports. According to a Los Angeles Times an anonymous Sony official says the video download service will be based on "open standards" and would allow you to download video content to a myriad of computers and hand-held devices including the PlayStation Portable.
The only real acknowledgment Sony seems to have made up to this point about this is a recent post on its official PlayStaton blog. In it Peter Dille, a Sony senior vice president, recounts how 2008 is being called the year of PlayStation 3 and that "digital media download services" will be one of the key pillars for making that work.
Dille doesn't directly confirm a download service in the works later in the post, but does say "it's already been confirmed that we'll be offering a video service for PS3 in a way that separates the service from others you've seen or used. Ultimately the goal of the PLAYSTATION Network service will be to break through the overwhelming clutter of digital media to give you the TV, movies..."
It would be fair to say Sony is a little late to the party on this one. The growing field of set-top boxes offering video downloads is packed with heavyweights like Amazon/Tivo, Microsoft/Xbox 360 and Apple/AppleTV.
There is only so much good video to go around between these services. Are consumers ready for yet another download player, even one with the well known name of Sony? We'll find out as Sony gives more details soon about its reported video download offering.
CREDIT - (PC World contributor Nino Marchetti spotted this story on Sony's video download ambitions. Here is his take on the news.)
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yay. i'm all good and ready, except for my internet. my part of the city is just starting to get fi-op, but it's not coming fast enough... =(
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