http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/ Engadget Comments for New Digital Copies on the actual Blu-ray Disc from Sony exclusively for the PSP http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/On that note I approve this post ;)]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
As for this particular post. Most of the other sites didn't actually talk about the previous Digital Copies and how this differs or the fact that Sony demoed this feature at CES 20008 and is just now brining it to market.]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
Read the release people. It's the Blu-Ray digital copies that are PSP only not ALL digital copies.]]>Sep 30th 2009 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
Or, to put it less crudely, now that they've got their royalties from blu-ray locked in they are going to try to leverage it as much as possible. Which is exactly why they've never given up on proprietary formats. ]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
Sony is not even *close* to the sole patent holder on Blu-ray. Just for starters, there's all the codec patent holders. Then there's the whole of the BDA, which is like 100 companies, all getting a piece of the pie.

What Sony is doing here is leveraging *their studio's* movies for use with *their consoles*. Had HD-DVD worked in the PS3, they would have done the same thing. It's not a Blu-ray issue per se, it's them leveraging their studio brand to bolster their game brands.

-Pie]]>Sep 29th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
Of course everyone in the BDA is making money off patents they hold. That's the purpose of patents. And my point is that Sony is not in charge of the BDA, and this move is NOT the result of their "still having an orgasm over the format war."

They are linking two of their gaming machines together, something they've been doing for over a year. This is very similar to Remote Play, a PSP-PS3 sharing technology. It adds value to the Playstation brand, and Sony is leveraging their studio connection as a catalyst. It is *not* about Blu-ray specifically at all.

And, no, I don't see a problem with it. They're trying to add value to their Playstation brand. Simple as that. Microsoft does something almost exactly the same. The only official way to stream to the 360 is via Windows Media Server (or whatever it's called). They're adding value to the Windows/XBox brand by doing so.

-Pie]]>Sep 29th 2009 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
If Sony are putting their digital copy on the BD, it obviously has something to do with the fact that many PSP owners also own PS3s so it saves those users from switching one disk out for another, or of firing up a PC to do something their PS3 can manage by itself.

It has NO impact on anything else and I do not understand the hate directed at this move. The hate should be directed at digital copies in general, and how every device seems to adopt its own proprietary DRM'd format.]]>Sep 30th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
The point is, proprietary formats NEVER succeed in the long term. They always have a relatively short lifespan. Sony could devote a whole museum to them. In the end, the industry players always throw up their hands in surrender and form yet another standards committee and finally get it right, or at least close. And consumers who bought into the proprietary format are left with junk. What are you going to play your PSP digital copy on in 3 or 4 years when the PSP has been replaced by a new model, and no longer plays the old version. And don't say it'll never happen, because it just did. Yes could keep your old PSP around for a while. But you probably won't want to because the new one will be so much better.]]>Sep 30th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 5:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/Sep 29th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-digital-copies-on-the-actual-blu-ray-disc-from-sony-exclusiv/
but... i don't want it limited to sony products, i'd love to get this on my mac as well. Apple please embrace BD properly and keep doing the digital copies, but make it even better. who needs to waste extra plastic dvd discs?? let em put it on the BD instead.]]>Sep 30th 2009 1:20PM