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15 Jul 2008
Sony and Sky have teamed up to deliver a video-on-demand service for the PlayStation Portable.
Go!View on PSP has just gone live in the UK and Ireland, and offers users a range of content including TV shows, movies and sport for playback on the PSP.
Once subscribed users can download content to PCs and transfer it to PSPs for viewing.
Agreements have been made with Disney-ABC-ESPN Television, BBC Worldwide, Sony Pictures Television International, NBC Universal International Television Distribution, National Geographic and Sky Sports.
The service is broken down into Comedy, Sport and Entertainment packs which are available by monthly subscription, while selected movies and TV series can be rented.
Subscription packs are priced at £5 for one pack, £8 for two packs and £10 for all three packs.
Rental TV is available from £1.50 per episode, and movies are available from £2.50 each.
When registering for the service, customers will receive one month's free subscription.
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Do you agree?
perhaps, but
The easy reason why you can't download directly is because the psp browser is too slow and outdated. How long would it take to download an entire movie? An upgraded psp with faster internet and more ram would be nice. Such a product, with the games library already available would be a great alternative to video ipods, even the iphone if they went that route as rumored.
Posted by: Zelos 16 Jul 2008
Wont be paying for it...
...wont be using it.
Posted by: PJ 16 Jul 2008
Video on the go - provided you bring your desktop PC
What's the point? If I have a PC with me, I'll watch movies on that. If I don't then I can't use this service (and Mac/Linux are shut out too). Sony need to remember the PSP is a network device, and give it DIRECT access to this and the PS Network/Store
Posted by: ian 15 Jul 2008