Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN 153
itwbennett writes "Sony on Tuesday 'rolled out the ability to buy HD movies from the PlayStation Network,' writes blogger Peter Smith. Sony claims they're the first service to offer HD titles to own from all six major movie studios. Smith runs the numbers on 'standard' pricing for titles ($19.99 for new releases; $17.99 for older movies), file sizes (ranging from 4 GB for Zombieland to 7.5 GB for 2012), and resolution (720P as far as he can tell)."
Re:The pricing is way off... (Score:4, Interesting)
Indeed, it's strategies like this that made me stop working for Sony.
Oh, that and the regular shafting by management.
The irony is, management will email you and say "please tell us how to be a better company" and you tell them to try selling things that are a good value proposition and they don't want to know.
For instance, I emailed the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and told him that no-one would ever buy a UMD movie at that price/quality, but did he listen? Did he fuck.
Sony needs to get rid of the morons in upper management and start listening to the people making the products.
Re:Titles to "own" (Score:2, Interesting)
I have a 46" TV, and there's a noticable difference between an upscaled DVD and a bluray at 1080p.
Maybe you have a crap TV that only goes to 720p, or is 50hz or something, I don't know.
I'm also not sure what is dumb about buying a PS3; I've been very happy with mine. A combo bluray player, game console, media player, browser, etc. Its been well worth it.
Re:Titles to "own" (Score:3, Interesting)
I have a 40" TV and you have to be close to blind not to see the difference between 1080p and an upscaled DVD from couch distance.
I'd like to point out that "couch distance" varies for everyone. I have a 61" 1080p set and a long living room. While the difference between DVD and Bluray is noticeable to a small degree, there really doesn't seem to be that much of a difference to me. Both DVD and Bluray are miles ahead of the over-compressed and artifact-riddled "1080p" offered by Time Warner or Dish Network, but the difference between the two disc formats appears minimal to my 20/20 eyes.