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Only Sony signed up to offer PS3 movies, so far
SONY MAY HAVE plans to feed movies to its PS3 console, but so far the only studio signed up to participlate in the Vole-busting scheme is Sony itself.
A hack from Hollywood in-house mag Variety has been sniffing about and claims on his bog that the the numerous film-making outfits he's spoken to are yet to sign up to Sony's cunning plan.
Sony's scheme will rival Microsoft's similar offering through its Xbox Live thingummyjig.
The firm also wants to enable the transfer of movie content to its PSP, the bogger reports.
Anyone still wondering whether Blu-ray gamble will pay off for the Japanese giant has something else to mull over now. ยต
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PS3 is a obvious platform for move downloads, more so that the 360, as the potential PS3 userbase in so much larger.

Whilst that statement may seem odd (14m PS3, 18m 360), many of those 360's lack a HDD, ( 7m Core/Arcade units are the nunbers I saw). Add in the fact that many movie fans own the PS3 for it's movie capabilities, if I were a studio, I would be jumping at the chance to support PS3 direct move downloads.
SONY is way behind MS on this one.
I think making the downloadable movies available on the PSP doesn't seem very appealing to the other movie companies as it's a security risk for malevolent copying. And this just shows how much of a gamble Blu-Ray still is in the market today where digital distribution is picking up the pace and now even SONY is going for it.
Obviously Sony is not pushing the movie downloads because they want people to buy the blu ray movies, which will cause Sony to be way behind xbox and apple. Sony is a movie and music maker, in addition, they want to sell you the hardware you use to play them. And in my opinion, you can't be both. If you look at the cd copy protection mess 2 years ago. Sony has two look 2 fronts constantly. Sony needs to sell their music and movie business and dedicate themselves to technology entirely.
If I were a movie studio I'd not sign up to another movie studio-controlled distribution system either if I could help it, that's what I'd call a no-brainer.
I'm actually surprised sony itself signed up though, often and weirdly you see the company itself not get on-board in these situations, to prove the world is mad I always assume..
Sony seems to think it should reinvent the wheel. Instead of making a brand new movie download service they should form alliances with companies that already have services and are also competing with M$, then offer a plugin on the PS3. In the case of movies they should hook up with apple. Then make an Itunes plug in that will let you download and watch the movies on your ps3. Kind of like appletv part 2...but better.