SKY and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced the formation of a Joint Venture company to deliver on-demand entertainment content to owners of the PSP™(PlayStation®Portable) in the UK and Ireland.
The Joint Venture company, with equal Board level representation from SKY and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will draw on the unrivalled entertainment aggregation expertise and technical leadership of SKY, and the handheld entertainment knowledge and brand power of PlayStation®. The company will establish PSP and the new ground breaking video download service as the natural partners for those seeking the ultimate choice of portable entertainment content.
Focusing exclusively on delivering video content to the PSP, the Joint Venture will initially provide a wealth of video and film content to the more than 2.3 million PSP owners in the UK and Ireland. The two companies are already in discussions with entertainment content providers across Europe to facilitate future introduction of the service to European PSP owners.
More information on the service will be announced by SCEE at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany on Wednesday 22nd August.
Interesting certainly, but has no one else noticed that the proliferation of public WiFi in Europe is mostly… Hard to find and/or expensive?
Remote Play would be a system seller if the average person had access to wireless away from home…
Comment by nailerr — Jul 27, 2007 @ 11:57 am
PSP gets Video on Demand in the UK…
Got this press release from Sony this morning, outlining their plans to introduce a Video on Demand service in the UK as a joint venture with Sky.
27/07/2007 07:30
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE AND SKY JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER VIDEO ON DEMA…
Trackback by Absolute Blog — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:08 pm
why just the psp though?
Comment by sectionz — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:29 pm
this is pretty awesome regardless.
Comment by sectionz — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:30 pm
Just the UK and Ireland? What happened to the rest of Europe, e.g. the Netherlands (where I happen to live)?
Comment by Laurens Holst — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
@ 4 - “The two companies are already in discussions with entertainment content providers across Europe to facilitate future introduction of the service to European PSP owners”.
Comment by Tom Eccles — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:34 pm
Never mind my post above. I should read before I post -_-;;. Nevertheless, I hope to hear news about agreements outside the UK (and Ireland) soon.
Comment by Laurens Holst — Jul 27, 2007 @ 12:36 pm
Might have to upgrade my shamelessly small 32mb memory stick
Comment by Rothbury — Jul 27, 2007 @ 1:28 pm
Im not sure if people want to watch movies with PSP ,but PS3 is an other story.
Comment by Raitzi — Jul 27, 2007 @ 2:59 pm
the PSP has done considerably well for their first portable sales wise.
the DS is not doing so great in Europe considering they only sell 1 game per unit per year, which is worse then the PSP is doing in Europe.
Comment by stewiemark — Jul 27, 2007 @ 3:32 pm
A link with Sky for getting HD quality VOD for the PS3 would be great. Things like being able to get films, Prison Break, 24 or even Premier League football via it would be great. The PS3 has a real limited capacity for that sort of thing whereas the PS3 has plenty of room to play with. A pukka link up between the two companies could lead to great things !
Comment by Paul — Jul 27, 2007 @ 4:04 pm
EDIT: I mean the PSP has limited capacity, the PS3 certainly doesn’t in this respect!
Comment by Paul — Jul 27, 2007 @ 4:05 pm
Sounds interesting but just imagine if they had spent the time doing it with 4OD or BBC iPlayer. That would be the killer app.
Comment by Ben Furneaux — Jul 27, 2007 @ 4:58 pm
My guess is that they’re not doing it with the BBC for commercial reasons – i.e. Sky are desperate to remain relevant in a VOD world and have more ‘yoof’ shows (24, lost etc.) whereas iPlayer is the BBC’s baby and they have no interest in restricted platforms - it actually goes against their charter. Personally I’d prefer BBC content, but you can see why Sky would be keen (possibly to the tune of cash) on the venture while the BBC would be very skeptical.
Comment by Adam J — Jul 27, 2007 @ 5:49 pm
You lucky, lucky Europeans. You guys get all of the cool stuff.
Comment by Parker — Jul 27, 2007 @ 6:41 pm
http://bhnetwork.blogspot.com/
Im glad to see that your getting this but what about us in the states.
Comment by Chad28 — Jul 27, 2007 @ 9:12 pm
I’d rather have a new better web browser and a bit torrent client, then we’d have content.
Comment by LordOfRuin — Jul 30, 2007 @ 10:44 am
Too little too late
Comment by Arthur The Magnificiant Squirrel — Aug 1, 2007 @ 2:27 pm
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