PlayStation video download service is live
By Richard Lawler 
posted Jul 16th 2008 12:35AM
posted Jul 16th 2008 12:35AM
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posted Jul 16th 2008 12:35AM
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Yay?
Yeah. yay. Yawn. Not gonna use it, ever. Downloading content makes no sense. The download is huge, consumes huge amounts of pipe. Buy a Blueray, own it, watch it as much as, and with whomever, you want, for as long as you want, then re-sell it if you like or keep it. You get higher resolution, better sound, permanence, the legitimate ability to swap and loan and gift... downloads suck so bad my vacuum cleaner ran outside and threw itself under a truck. They represent the very worst form of DRM.
Now, when Sony gets "Home" going, you can wake me up for that. It actually looks like they're doing something creative there, instead of trying to re-monitize an already existing income stream at our expense and to our extreme disadvantage.
All of this downloading nonsense is just a tempest in a teapot. They're never going to get a penny out of me for it.
You saying you're not going to even rent a movie?
While I don't download movies that often (from XboxLive), it does make sense, if was just going to rent that movie anyways.
Blockbuster is a good 7-8 miles away, so I'm wasting a gallon of gas, on top of the movie rental fee, so why not download? It takes no more than an hour or so.
Are the downloaded movies up to Blu-Ray snuff? No, of course not, not when they are 6-9GBs on average. But, I'm willing to take that hit on RENTALS...
Dr XYM, no, I don't rent movies, either from a storefront or via download. Doesn't make economic sense to me unless pirating is involved, and I won't do that, either.
We also don't go to the theater; same basic reason, makes no economic sense.
Well, that, and the crying baby two rows back, the fellow who won't shut up down the row, the teenagers with their cellphones and their texting and their apparent inability to understand the most basic courtesies, the two kids fighting over popcorn, the guy behind you who apparently has the world's worst cold ever and snorts, blows and coughs all through the movie, the ticket cost for just two is more than a Blueray that can be shown to the entire family and lent to your friends, the snacks are priced as if they are gold-plated, you get to be abused first by a series of incredibly badly made and entirely unwelcome local commercials, followed by professional, but just as unwelcome, ads for Coke or whatever... As near as I can tell, theater owners don't *want* my money.
As far as I'm concerned, it's the age of the home theater, and buying my own permanent copy of the content gives me maximum flexibility at a cost I can live with. Looking to get more reasonable towards Christmas, too. With a group of people who buy Blueray, free lending from one to another also adds value; same ethics and methods as lending a book. We've got a significant group of friends who all have Blueray systems and that pretty much sounds the death knell for rental making any sense at all.
Just in time to compete with the Xbox 360 and Netflix relationship.
Just in time to compete with the Xbox 360 and Netflix relationship.
Hmm.. I can't seem to find any HD movies?
Looks like this will be US only. The rest of us are being left out in the cold.
Damn it!
Allowing the service outside the US might actually discourage torrents of Sony content.
Just a thought............
I like the idea but they better ramp up the HD offerings. I won't be renting anything in SD. As far as I can tell, there was no TV shows offered in HD and a so-so list of HD movies. Why offer Firefly in SD??? HDNET just showed the series in HD.....
I'm shocked that we've seen no reviews over the DLs. I'm watching Die another day in HD right now. The video looks pretty good, I would not say as good as blue-ray. If TV shows come in HD at 1.99 I will get some for sure. I hope they give a deal on full seasons.
Audio is 2 chan btw
In the HD rentals (the ones I've seen anyway) have 5.1 surround.
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this is great now most of us couch potato americans can get fat quicker since now we dont have to leave the couch to get movies .
it looks cool 2 me wish it was cheaper and more hd seletions
Suck sucks no closed caption!