Should be interesting to see how they price out, in relation to other competitive services and just buying outright.

I wouldn't mind having cheap access to movies on my PSP while on the road... Hmmmmmmm

This is exactly why the PS3 will win in the long run. Sorry 360, I love you, but quality over quantity will ALWAYS prevail.

You mean like how Betamax overcame VHS?

HD movies? is it safe to assume that it's going to take a reaaal long time to stream a movie? hey just like installing a game on the ps3 lol

Why would people pay to demolish there download bandwidth and internet data caps. A normal DVD is 4gig minimum I'd like to see how much a hd stream is.

I can see it work on the ps3 but there is not much details about if its rental or you will own the movie, kinda like the xbox 360?

I have said it before Sony made the PS3 to last a long time, it's future proof for like ten years? I read that somewhere, most likely TECHSPOT. I don't even use a computer for that long.

An HD enthusiast is going to need a pretty good connection to avail of the new feature.

SONY is surely surpassing XBOX and Wii in terms of games! and now this feature will even make it better! MS & Nintendo should work on their features to remain in this race!

I wonder if this is sugar coating to offset the patch blunder on the PS3s.

I doubt this is because of the patch blunder. It takes a lot longer to close such deals with studios.
Maybe they just wanted to get some attention on the PS3, maybe they think that negative attention is better than no attention, maybe the patch blunder was something intentional .

hello ...

like i said in a former post, Playstation 3 in the title = flame or console war, LOL!

it's about a new service, whether it be good or bad, it's added value & optional as usual. I would really love to have such services in my part of the world, but with my slow connection won't be great.

so if it works for you & you are not of those stealing movies off torrents, why not ... go for HD content streaming, i'm sure you have the proper connection for that.

I really like the fact that so many services are being available on PC & consoles, it makes it easier for some & as the DVD is slowly but surely fading away & that blu-ray can be ordered online, some lower bandwidth 'HD' movies can still prove OK, if you don't want to buy but rent.

Once the zone boundary will disappear, it will be one of the best service around, yet will hardly ever replace a real disc based solution with added contents, higher quality & bonus contents.

Thank you SONY, but do take in consideration the other countries option.

cheers!

Very cool, but I'm guessing it'll take a lot of bandwidth to watch a movie in HD. So in the end, I'll end up paying extra for busting my internet download limits. I think I'll continue renting local...

If you can't make enough games to keep your clients happy you might as well sell em movies while they wait lol.
They must figure the ps3 community still has plenty of cash that needs to be shaken out of there pockets

Hope they are not too expansive since Downloading HD movies will eat up your monthly dowload quota for us canadians anyways

The internet infrastructure is no where near being able to deliver this sort of service in any country . Sony have clearly lost the plot, basically more money than sense syndrome. isp's are not going to fork out masses of $ just so sony can provide this 'service' Most of the isp's can not even provide a decent low quality tv connnection for catch up purposes.
None of the governments in Europe or usa canada want to invest in their countries communication systems if they did we would all have optical connections to the house.
It is not only the bandwidth available it is also if the fat cisco switches are bloody expensive and you may have a 20meg connection but if that leads to 1 overworked cisco switch then actual speeds will be significantly lower

What world are you living in? The PS3 has plenty of premium games. That argument might have worked in its debut year, but not so much anymore.

Back to the story at hand. As others have stated, I do not see this feature gaining huge popularity off the bat. Most people (including myself) do not have the bandwidth to handle streaming HD. Hell, I had to let Netflix buffer for a few minutes if I wanted to watch it uninterrupted. I still hope Sony adds some of the long-awaited PSN features soon.. like parties and cross-game chat -.-

Internet download limits??? what kind of service are you guys getting? what happen to unlimited downloads? This is great for SONY and most PS3 users especially if you have an HDTV.

Depends on where you live and what your internet connection is like I guess - in smaller countries like here in the UK I get constant 1MB/s download speed with unlimited downloads for £6 a month. It's even better in places which have fibre optic connections in place.