Sony Looking To Expand Their Video Download Service

PS3, PSP

Sony are making to better the offerings on Xbox Live by potentially allowing users to transfer movie downloads onto their PSP. They're also considering working with Blu-Ray to allow users to transfer a copy of a movie from the disc onto the PS3 or PSP, which is comparable to what is happening with the iPod at the moment, since some studios are offering lower quality versions of DVD movies for playback on the handheld device. Unfortunately, Sony don't have a big studio following yet, despite having talked to all the major studios, funnily enough, only their own Sony Pictures have signed on for sure. Since the service has been running on Xbox Live for some time though, if Sony go down a similar path they shouldn't have too much trouble. It will obviously be much harder to get studios to agree to supply a version of their Blu-Ray movies which can be transfered, and so this could limit their range of content if they choose to go ahead with it.

Reader Comments:

Posted by Sliced Robot 27/06/2008 9:59pm

Sony are making to better the offerings on Xbox Live by potentially allowing users to transfer movie downloads onto their PSP. They're also considering working with Blu-Ray to allow users to transfer a copy of a movie from the disc onto the PS3 or PSP, which is comparable to what is happening with the iPod at the moment, since some studios are offering lower quality versions of DVD movies for playback on the handheld device. Unfortunately, Sony don't have a big studio following yet, despite having talked to all the major studios, funnily enough, only their own Sony Pictures have signed on for sure. Since the service has been running on Xbox Live for some time though, if Sony go down a similar path they shouldn't have too much trouble. It will obviously be much harder to get studios to agree to supply a version of their Blu-Ray movies which can be transfered, and so this could limit their range of content if they choose to go ahead with it.