Sony recently announced a new joint venture company with SKY to provide video on demand service for PSP owners in the UK and Ireland.
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.
Not much more is know at this point, like what type of content will be available and how much it will cost. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is prepared to give details of the service on August 22nd at Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany. I guess we’ll just have to wait until then to see what pans out.
Here’s the full press release:
SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT EUROPE AND SKY JOIN FORCES TO DELIVER VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICE TO PSP OWNERS
London, 27 July 2007. 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.
Notes to Editors:
About BSkyB
Sky is the UK’s leading entertainment company and operates the most comprehensive multichannel, multi-platform television service in the UK and Ireland. Around 21 million viewers in 8.6 million households enjoy an unprecedented choice of movies, news, entertainment and sports channels and interactive services on Sky Digital, the UK and Ireland’s most watched digital television service.
Sky’s aim is to offer customers unparalleled choice in content, delivered through innovative and technological advanced platforms that best serve the demands of today’s viewers. In delivering entertainment through the TV, PC and mobile, customers have more control and flexibility over what they watch and how they watch it. In addition to its digital television service, Sky also provides the UK’s largest 3G mobile TV service (Sky Mobile TV) and offers the UK’s only multi-platform on-demand video service (Sky Anytime).
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Write a Comment»Heh. They should bring that over here. I know a few people (including myself) that would watch some on demand from time to time if it was for a fair price.
I don’t disagree at all. I would use it if available. I use YouTube on my iPhone like crazy.
I think the problem with bringing this to the states is we don’t have a large enough wireless infrastructure to give enough users a chance to use this service.