Sony to announce European Video Store at GamesCom

Angela Madronero, European PlayStation Store Manager, has announced that Sony "will be making an official announcement regarding [the] forthcoming Video Store, next week, at GamesCom."

[saint_john_paul_ii]

well its about time for the EU owners.

[Maddens Raiders]

give the people what they want.

[Kleptic]

yeah it is a decent service given its just barely a year old...

It REALLY needs some sort of rental subscription though...it surprisingly gets almost every major movie release the day its in stores (every Tuesday morning in the US)...but 'new' rentals are usually 3.99 for SD and double that for HD (which is only 720p and still has ridiculously compressed 2ch. sound)...so don't expect to be downloading BD quality stuff from this...but its still great for nights where you don't feel like going out and buying/renting anything...SD is basically the same cost as renting a new release dvd at blockbuster...but HD is MORE expensive than the same movie on Blu Ray at blockbuster...making the HD rental part of the service 100% broken...

just be warned...90% of the new content is sub TV budget lionsgate crap...terrible terrible movies...but the previews are always fun to watch anyway...

[zaza126]

of course its still ok to leave the canadian users in the dust...
but at least we already have psn cards here

[Carl1412]

Glad good old almighty-slayer (me :P) managed to get a half decent answer.

Hopefully it will go live the same day and we will get good content.

HHAHAHAHA

[zoibie]

It's SCEE, don't bet on it. How long did it take them to realise an official PS Blog would be good for Europe too.

[Carl1412]

Yeah Zoibles, which is why i put the "hahah" in there.

Method to my madness ;)

[Knightrid808]

One thing for sure: better late than never.

[InfectedDK]

Finally!
I want video store and VidZone :D

[WhittO]

Lol we already have vidzone?

It's great we are getting this store, it has soo much content I would buy.
Lets just hope we get that same content over here!!

O, and wouldn't she get into trouble for leaking this announcement early?Lol

[InfectedDK]

@Whitto, nope "we" don't.. It's only big countries in the EU that does.. Like UK, France and some other..

[jamesrocks3147]

its been over a year for us...

[swiftshot93]

Good thing I live in the U.S. :D

Edit: LOL @ Xiphos.

No but seriously it always seems as if European gamers get shafted by SCE. PSN cards, Video store, release dates for games. And now Activision increased MW2's price, that freaking sucks...

[Megaton]

Good thing I torrent :D

=P

[Kleptic]

Europeans have to understand how complex this is though...this isn't just Sony's fault...as region locking on US based film content is extremely complicated legally...not to mention the overhead of localizing all the content for viewing across Europe/UK...

obviously its not 'all' US based content...but A LOT of it is...given its a fee based service connected to a free online community...I am really surprised its coming to Europe this soon...

[Lumbo]

And another problem is that most of the content that is handled by one US company in the US, has a different distributor in every european country. So rights had to be contracted with a load of distributors like ufa, constantine etc .. and every country here has its own rating board on top of all that.

Europe is complicated business :D regardless of the common market

[unrealgamer58]

good for europe, hopefully now there will be more demand for more anime. (DBZ on psn ftw!)

[byeGollum]

like what? 10 years later? ..

[Cajun Chicken]

At freaking last, not that I need it, but I hope in the UK they have a deal with BBC and maybe Channel/Film Four.

[Carl1412]

yeah, i would hope for lots of BBC content.

I'll have me some total wipeout :L

[oldskoolgamer]

top gear episodes FTW

[faisdotal]

I recommend PlayTV if you live in the UK.

[Cyrus365]

Forget Europe, and US, where is Canada? I understand generally US gets their's first, just like how it was on Xbox Live.

But shouldn't canada get their's around the same time as europe...

[LiL T]

We need this service in Canada please. If Europe gets this and Canada does not I will be pissed, even though the lackluster video gives me free blu-ray rentals every time I go there.

[Cyrus365]

Don't get me wrong if true, I'm happy for all the Europeans, they deserve the video store...

But where is Canada's version...I know it took on Xbox Live a couple years to have their marketplace come to Canada, but come on Sony, get the ball rolling.

[LiL T]

What I don't get is when they announce stuff for "North America" they seem to forget Canada which to me seems the area that is in the north. If they are going to soy north america then include Canada or just say U.S.A only or buy a frigin map.

[-Mezzo-]

About time.

[ArcticWolfUK]

about time.

[chrisius]

about time

[zoibie]

about time

[Ninji]

How boring...

[oldskoolgamer]

just kidding it is about time lol

[KR1ST0F3R]

First time I have ever Seen the fabled combo breaker put to use.

Well played.

[Tomkar]

about time