The fruits of Sony and Sky's partnership (which, scarily, we first reported on just under a year ago) is now finally available to the masses. Go!View allows you to download video content to your PSP across an array of genres for a relatively small fee. Content travels to your PSP via a PC, so Mac users are sadly left out in the cold. Pricing runs on both a subscription model and a pay-per-view model, depending on the content you are viewing.
Movies and "Latest TV" will all be individually priced and include series 1 of Doctor Who (not sure that counts as "latest", seeing as series 4 just finished), season 3 of Lost and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. TV episodes are priced at £1.50/€2.00 with movies at £2.50 - £3.50 (€3.20 - €4.50). Alternatively, there are "Entertainment," "Comedy" and "Sports" subscription packs which cost £5/€7 per month and let you download as much content as you like.
These subscription packs are surprisingly fleshed out with classic 70s Doctor Who, Scrubs, Life On Mars, Red Dwarf and Coupling. The assumption is that the site will be constantly updated with more content, but we notice this fact isn't advertised. It seems like a pretty decent service to grab UK-centric on-the-go video content, but we would love to see it somehow integrated into the EU PSN Store. Might lessen the sting of knowing we're not getting a video-download service until 2009.
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7-23-2008 @ 3:57PM
leno said...
France Go!View here : http://www.gopspgo.com/fr_FR/view-overview
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7-23-2008 @ 4:43PM
Miharu said...
Of course when it's launched in Europe that means pretty much UK only.
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7-23-2008 @ 4:44PM
Hashbrown Hunter said...
Interesting. Well I'm guessing this is why the EU PS video store wasn't planned to release alongside the US one.
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7-23-2008 @ 8:08PM
cy-rano said...
Can we download on it from the US?
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7-23-2008 @ 11:16PM
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) said...
i hate this new "Go!" branding thing that Sony has adopted. it just looks so corny to me. i think they could have come up with something much more attractive.
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7-24-2008 @ 9:14AM
hexhunter said...
Maybe I'll try the trial, but I'd rather not subscribe to Sky, or any other Murdock company.
Does this mean that we'll never get a video store because they have a deal with Sky???
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8-27-2008 @ 5:59PM
Duh said...
I'm confused... I thought the PSP had WiFi? Why do these videos have to go through a PC? Apparently the Amazon Kindle can receive e-books pushed straight to the device - why hasn't the PSP caught up with this?
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