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Sony Computer Entertainment is proudly shouting “FIRST” (YouTube commenter-style) with an announcement that claims the PlayStation Network is the first online service to sell high-definition movies from all the major movie studios: Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Walt Disney, Warner Bros and, of course, Sony Pictures.
Some of the content has been around for a while — for example, NBC Universal videos debuted on the PlayStation Network one year ago tomorrow — but PlayStation owners have access to a few new movies today.
They include Up, G-Force, Earth, Star Trek, Paranormal Activity, Zoolander, This Is It, 2012, District 9, Zombielandzombieland, Inglourious Basterds, Couples Retreat, Public Enemies, The Hangover, Harry Potterharry potter and the Half-Blood Prince and The Wizard of Oz.
All the studios but Fox are represented there; Fox’s new contributions (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Jennifer’s Body and Fantastic Mr. Fox) will debut on the PSN this Saturday, March 13.
PSN competitors like Apple’s iTunesiTunes Store and Apple TV set-top box and Microsoft’s Zune Marketplace and Xbox 360 console offer formidable libraries of on-demand video from the major movie studios, but Sony is boasting that it’s the only one to offer HD content from all of them.
In a time when the market is terribly fragmented between so many different formats and services, posting HD content from every major studio is actually a notable feat. Sony will have more firsts on the horizon, too; the PlayStation 3 is going 3D soon.
Apple and Microsoft have had their own opportunities to say “first,” though. The Xbox 360 streamed Netflix movies first, and both Apple’s iTunes Store and the Xbox 360 offered movie downloads and rentals before the PlayStation Network did.
@thatsme
1. Not everything is worth owning or renting on blu-ray
2. I have no idea what you mean by 'exclusive'. You do know there's this other brand called Xbox that has been renting Hi-def flicks for some time now, right? The big difference here is Sony is boasting that they have a all 6 major networks… and I can't even tell you which is absent from XBL. If some want to see that as some negative aspect of XBL… well, sure, I guess. From my perspective, it's the non-participating studios that are hurting themselves more.
3. While I absolutely get what you're saying, on paper, a 1080P downloaded movie should really not be much different than the same movie playing off blu-ray… except for maybe the soundtrack? I watch TONS of streaming content from Netflix to FunnyOrDie on a 46 inch Samsung LED via my PC and Xbox and is the main reason I really don't care about blu-ray. Most sites these days stream in hi-def if possible. It's sad, the free episodes of FlashForward on ABC.com is actually better quality than if you paid to watch them on regular DVD. I wouldn't, and don't, buy too many blu-rays because I feel big round discs will be gone in a few years. BD is really an in-between technology.
Good for Sony to move to this (and about time). It's only natural.
