http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/ Engadget Comments for 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/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/PSN FTMFW!]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/PS3 FTPWTBBBQ PEW PEW PEW!]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
F**cking Prawns ftw]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Wake me up when they have previews and movies are a buck cheaper. I'll keep renting BRD from blockbuster and HD cable pay per view until then. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 5:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/

I remember reading something about the PSN offering subscription plans to the PSN offering different incentives like Cloud servers, etc.

I would love to see them come up with something to subsidize monthly movie rentals for PS3 owners.]]>Mar 9th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
They're professional athletes, they can afford Blu-ray. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
...and they play for a U.S. team.]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 4:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Obliviously we eat poutine and play hockey with are spare time. Sometimes we put on are red suits and ride our houses up and down the country side.]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
Personally, I'm glad that foreign competition will be allowed in telecommunications. Somebody has to come in this country and tell Bell and Rogers to shove it up their asses.]]>Mar 9th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
Yeah, wonder what it does to the netflix option...]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
No joke. If Sony wants to be a big player they need to add some sort of streaming and just more elegant way to have movies. Right now the store is the only thing that really works well. It can't compete with on demand right now because it takes so long. If netflix can stream movies so can Sony.]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
They have Netflix...]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/SD FTL!]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Oh, Nin CEO replied, he said,
"Thanks for that memo, we have been waiting FOREVER for Sony to finish reading it after MS forwarded it to them. Cheerio and excelsior!"]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
I thought all of you guys had been extinct already??

shew! shew! get outta here!]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
says the guy swapping disc on final fantasy]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
Buuuuurn!!!! Disc swapping FTMFL!!!!

I'm still gonna be staying with netflix rather than this tho.]]>Mar 9th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 8:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
well PSN isnt that bad considering it is free... god knows where they get the money from to keep psn alive :S]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/Mar 9th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
well, i doubt you ever see Sony Pictures (which are many of the Greatest movies) on the 360 or wii..

Maybe now sony will start their own Netflix type deal, like $10/month for movie rental or something...]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
it wouldn't really benefit me that much though. I can't remember the last time i rented or bought a movie... ;) ]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
Blu-ray is nice, but sometimes it's handy to just download a show rather than go to a store or wait for Amazon to ship it out. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
The more content the better, no matter what compression. ]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/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.]]>Mar 9th 2010 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
If you're not going to be getting HD video streaming, you may as well stick with Netflix which is already available on all 3 gaming consoles and dozens of other things which also offers other services the this new thing doesn't like mail order (which usually takes a day or two). They haven't put a price on this new thing but if it doesn't compare favorably to Netflix, I don't see it doing any better than Blockbuster.]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/sony-signs-up-all-six-major-studios-for-hd-movies-on-playstation/
Because of the way video compression has improved over the years, you're less likely to notice the difference (obviously it also depends on the quality/size of your TV etc as to whether you'll be able to tell). Basically, compression artefacts in older video formats were obvious because they resulted in sharp blocky edges, but the newer formats generally have softer-edged problems.

So, is Blu-ray much better quality, yes it is (just as CD is much better quality than a 192 kb/s MP3), can you tell, maybe not. (I buy my mp3s at 320kb/s but could I really tell the difference between that and 192? I doubt it.)]]>Mar 9th 2010 4:26PM