Sony touts PSP video service
p2pnet.net News:- Having failed with an online music service, troubled Sony is now giving video a shot.
It wants you to buy movies online and then watch them on its PlayStation Portable.
“The new PSP service has been developed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and will use the Japanese company’s memory stick technology to store the video content. Sony is distributing a 4Gb memory stick capable of storing 10 feature films,” says The Financial Times.
“With Sony Pictures Entertainment producing film content in Hollywood and DVD sales growth slowing industrywide, Sony is keen to establish a strong position in digital delivery of film content,” says the story in a considerable understatement, adding:
“Sony has had a difficult year. Launch of the PlayStation 3 suffered hitches. The group sold fewer than 200,000 units in its first month. It had intended to sell 400,000.”
The story doesn’t say how much Sony hopes to get for its downloads.
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Also See:
The Financial Times – Sony to enter video download market, December 17, 2006
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