Sony Announces Video-On-Demand Service for Playstation 3

Sony will debut a for-pay video download service for the Playstation 3 starting December 6 in Japan. While they've offered movie trailers since the PS3's release, their download service really marks their official entrance into the video-on-demand market. They plan to offer video downloads starting at $1.85 as compared to Microsoft's $2 price tag for standard definition content, and will start with "BBC-fueled car-related content in honor of Gran Turismo 5", likely the Top Gear content announced for the game. I've said from the beginning that Sony should look at the PS3 as a full-blown media center/set-top box rather than a video game console and it seems with Microsoft moving full speed ahead into the IPTV market, they're finally moving in the right direction. When the download service will be available in North America is unknown, but we'll continue to follow the evolution of the PS3 and have you a date as soon as possible.

Via Ars Technica

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Posted by Justin Davey at December 4, 2007 4:00 AM