Sony Opens Movie Site

Sony Opens Movie Site for PSP Owners
Posted by Ashton Liu at 08:22:46 AM EST on 10.31.2005.

Sony has opened their site, MovieSquare, a site designed for buying and downloading music, movies, and other media for the PSP. Currently, there are 268 titles on the site, with more content being added every month. Downloading a movie costs 1029 yen (~$9 USD) while merely streaming the movie costs 315 yen (~$2.70 USD).

Currently, there spans 268 titles over 12 genres, and while the downloads and streaming of said titles will cost money, if a PSP owner just wants to see a trailer, then it won't cost them a single penny (or yen). The media for this site is downloaded directly to the PC in a compressed file format, and once unzipped can be transferred to the PSP through a USB cable; no extra equipment is required to access this feature.

Pity the whole site is in Japanese and I don't read Japanese... yet. I'd pay £1.50 to stream a movie.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

I spent the better part of the morning making my blog PSP friendly.

Now if I could get that PSP keyboard then I could actually post blogs from my PSP with a minimum of fuss.

In the mean time I'll have to make do with using a PC.

The Prodigal Geek Returns

Hey! It's been too long!

After months of fighting with my web server, router and ISP, I've given in and am hosting my site externally.

Bulldog gave us endless problems and eventually left us without an internet connection or even a telephone for weeks. Now we're with UK Online who at least got us connected quickly but their 8Mb service (when it was finally installed) isn't really 8Mb and they're blocking the good ports on top of it all.... So, no more web server from home.

I think I'll bite the bullet and get a business account for home when the contract for this connection eventually expires.

So, for the time being you'll have to make do with just my blog.