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Sony just announced that movies and television shows will be available through PSN tonight.
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cp68 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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1 - About time...
that's cool..
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chaosatom - 533 days 4 hours ago
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1.1 - Video service Tonight !
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwww. That's so late. /sarcasm

maybe we should call it Quick-station now. lol.
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kosha - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Lol was watching it and thinking this movie thing will be out around october and then they go and make it avliable tonight.
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Jamie Foxx - 533 days 4 hours ago
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1.3 - SIGH,NOT ANOTHER FIRMWARE UPDATE.....
only joking thats kool could be a little cheaper for the movies though considering theres no packaging to consider
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DEIx15x8 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Can't sony come up with anything original? All they do is copy Microsoft. Sorry had to do it. Why did everyone have a fit that Microsoft copies yet now no one seems to care when Sony does a direct clone?
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chaosatom - 533 days 4 hours ago
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1.5 - @DEIx15x8 -
because xbox360 copied the ps2.

And I felt embrassed by their conference.
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truth for gamers - 533 days 4 hours ago
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whats the big deal? it's not like if the movies are free, netflix on live will be a better deal and no download required, on live you can stream them.
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rodeoo - 533 days 3 hours ago
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1.7 - @ truth
you can stream on the ps3 aswell. plus you have some hd options. About netflix you wont be able to stream new realeses but as someone said yesterday if you wanna watch the care bears it is perfect
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masterg - 533 days 3 hours ago
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@truth for gamers

You do know that you download when you stream right?
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Ghoul - 533 days 2 hours ago
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lol

108$ a year
+50 $ a year live

for what ? 10.000 old movies (they are only the backcataloge movies) and in SD quality

so its 160 bucks for an old video on demand service per year

thanks ill pass
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pizzas - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Already? O_O
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Nitrowolf2 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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just saw it one E3
idk if he said tonight but he did say day one,
i saw some of the titles and the store is impressive

this is the answer to netflicks and xbox service
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Turntable Jack - 533 days 4 hours ago
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yea, but it isn't in the same league you have to admit
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3.2 Veryangryxbot | 533 days 4 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
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chaosatom - 533 days 4 hours ago
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3.3 - Veryangryxbot
hey
how long are the rentals? 24hr?
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Ureval - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Answer to Netflix? Hardly. PSN has a leg up with being able to purchase and DL to the PSP, but Xbox has had movie rentals and tv shows for ages now. For people who enjoy handhelds this is cool info, but basing this soley on the PS3 and Xbox: advantage Xbox.
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Kholinar - 533 days 4 hours ago
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hey
how long are the rentals? 24hr?"

Indeed, lotsa questions. We don't know length of rental, what you can do with your purchase/rental besides transfer it to the psp (watching on pc, transferring to other mp3/movie players, burning it), or quality levels besides sd.

I'm a huge itunes/ipod fan and I've never rented a movie. Way too expensive. Even blockbuster with their gouging is cheaper than this if it's not a week rental period.

Plus we have no idea of the selection available, just that a lot of studios are signed up. So far I'm unimpressed. I certainly won't be renting at those prices.
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Alcohog - 533 days ago
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Don't forget being able to transfer to PSP. That is just sweet.
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skynidas - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Awesome!!
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the_hill_king - 533 days 4 hours ago
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way better than netflicks in evryway
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Kholinar - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Better than the current Netflix streaming line-up, maybe. Though we really don't know anything about the amount of movies available, so even that's questionable.

But the pricing is mediocre. Same as Apple and Amazon for the most part.
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JBO DA WARLOK - 533 days 4 hours ago
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5.2 - are you serious
netflix-10,000 movies

im sorry read it wrong its more than 10,000 movies check it out @ www.xbox.com/netflix
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Kholinar - 533 days 4 hours ago
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"are you serious
netflix-10,000 movies"

And the Wii has a larger lineup than both other consoles. What's your point?

Quantity /= Quality

For the record, I love Netflix. But for most people on this site, who watch a lot of action/horror/scifi and blockbuster movies, I'm not sure if Netflix has the better selection. For me, they definitely do. But I don't use the streaming yet.

Edit: Check out their new streaming releases if you disagree. This is the first ones listed/featured in New Releases:
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Kholinar - 533 days 4 hours ago
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New Release Streaming page: (Sorry, trouble with attachments)
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rodeoo - 533 days 3 hours ago
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5.5 - @jbo
out of the 10,000 movies there are mabey 50 that you would want to watch and all of em old.
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nutcase4u - 533 days 4 hours ago
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6 - How much is it?
Even if it is a bit too expensive we're simply paying for the convenience. This way it's available at the click of a button, and tonight! Prices may even come down once the excitement dies down a bit, but only time will tell.

Plus this just shows Sony cares about the PS3 owners and is providing one more service to us on a free network. Thanks
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Ghoul - 533 days 4 hours ago
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complete ownage

take your netflix ms its worthless this second the studio lineup is massiv
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JBO DA WARLOK - 533 days 4 hours ago
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(netflix)there won't be studio limits thats only for psn-xbx mktplc
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Ghoul - 533 days 4 hours ago
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haha you got to be kidding me

sony - uptodate lineup in hd from major studios without any restriction
ms - netflix (monthly fee btw for gold + netflix) and only old backkatalog movies

btw the store is launched TONIGHT
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aggh im on fire - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Depends on there prices whether i will use it. I use the xboxlive one quite a bit so it will be down to who is cheapest for me.
Other studios are already on live, take a look, just about all of them. Netflix is just an added extra.

Veryangryxbot... xbox live ones are the same except the purchase bit.
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Cyberchaos122 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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i thought it was pretty cool that u could take the movies u bought and put it on ur psp
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hotshot127 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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10 - @DELx
what the hell are you talking about. sony talked about the movie download service coming to psn YEARS ago.....
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testerg35 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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Wait..wait.. Movie streaming and DL is not possible now right cause of bandwidth? Wasn't that what PS3 fans said about the XBL movie service? Let me guess.. ALL ps3 fans now have fios or something. Oh... and this is part of the "innovative" part that Sony does right?
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Barreldragon00 - 533 days 4 hours ago
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12 - For me at least
The fact that you can put the movies/shows on my PSP puts this a little ahead of micro's netfix. But this is all IMO.
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Kyur4ThePain - 533 days 4 hours ago
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13 - Fingers crossed
I hope the PSN can handle the traffic tonight!
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PSWii60_Gamer - 533 days 3 hours ago
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14 - the shocker in the announcement was that it's coming tonight
i don't think anybody saw that coming. although maybe we should have considering the 'extra features' we learned about in the latest psp firmware...
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ER1X - 533 days 3 hours ago
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Sweet!
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monks - 533 days 3 hours ago
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the only question i have is it worldwide tonight or just the USA and being a euro boy it better we worldwide sick of waiting for stuff the usa gets first
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DJ - 533 days 3 hours ago
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17 - This is definitely a bit better than what Microsoft is offering.
Having content in both SD and HD is great, but being able to purchase the content (as well as rent) is amazing. I have a 500GB drive, so hopefully we can move our content onto externals; I'll try it out tonight. The studio support is huge too (same as XBL).

It's the PSP transfer tech that has me sold though.
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Darkiewonder - 533 days 2 hours ago
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From the Press Releese

300 movies
1200 TV Episodes

and a special anime series from SCEI developed by SCEJ called Xam'd: Lost Memories which will be offered in SD and HD.

Pricing is

$1.99 for TV episodes
$2.99-5.99 for Movie Rentals
$9.99-14.99 for Movie Purchases.
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shadow skill - 533 days 1 hour ago
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My bros external just got nuked so he may make use of this service now that he is in great need of something to take his mind off of all the movies he lost.
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darthv72 - 533 days ago
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20 - DAMN YOU SONY!!!!!!!!!!!!
why are you doing the same damn thing as MS when it comes to "renting" a movie. 14 days to watch but once you start you got 24hrs to watch it. You would think they would take on a different approach such as being able to watch the rented movie 2-3 times (and not 2-3 times within that 24hr period). I have been complaining about MS rental practice and Sony's isnt any better when it comes to the time frame of things.

I do like the fact you could buy the movie and even send a copy to the PSP. Still those two things arent enough to sway my original feeling toward their rental system. Bad move Sony. You need to offer up reduced fees for those who want to watch the [already downloaded movie] a couple days after they have already watched it. Just a thought.
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ER1X - 532 days 21 hours ago
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I guess by tonight he meant some other night. :(
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Kyur4ThePain - 532 days 21 hours ago
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21.1 - I was thinking that too.
But then again, everything today was PST, so tonight (for the east coast) is more like early morning.
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darthv72 - 532 days 19 hours ago
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21.2 - looks like it is working...
I was just browsing the movies and tv shows from my PC. I dont have a PS3 so maybe it isnt working through the PS3 store yet.
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