PS3's Vidzone is live!

Stream music videos over the Playstation Network via VidZone - win!

Sony's VidZone streaming service went live last night, via a free update available over the Playstation Network.

We saw the service in demo form a few weeks ago, and very much liked what we saw. The music content was limited back then, but as promised, there's a mess of content available at launch - three weeks' worth, claims Sony!

The 10,000 videos, with full surround sound. The service is ad-supported, and free to use; the labels already signed up are Sony Music (d'uh!) and Universal Music Group. Sony's in talks with EMI and Warner, and local reps are sanguine they'll be on board in the not too distant future. Aside from the big boys, there are also thousands of smaller independant labels signed up.

Even in the limited form we got to play around with, the service was pretty damn compelling, and we're looking forward to 'borrowing' the HQ's PS3 for some serious 'testing' over the weekend. With the ability to populate a full playlist, save searches, and integrate with your PSP, this is a perfect addition to the PlayStation's Blu-Ray functionality.

We hear it even plays games. Who knew?!

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6 Comments

phatbeat Jun 12, 2009 1:29 PM	I downloaded this earlier today, not knowing what it was. Cant wait to give it a thrashing tonight. Bye bye to my monthly d/l quota!
hectorbustnuts Jun 12, 2009 2:06 PM	I'll go out and buy a PS3 if I can stream this video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC0fNOZC1ck Then I'll smash it into a thousand pieces. Man, I wish I could get it out of my damn head!
Hawkeye Jun 12, 2009 2:58 PM	Oh my... WORST EARWORM EVER! (which is what I'm sure this guy's saying in the YT comments) "lurer på hvordan denne sangen hørtes ut? FØR de redigerte, den er faktisk fengende :-D"
hectorbustnuts Jun 12, 2009 3:27 PM	Oh yeah! You'll be humming that sucker all weekend. It ought to me the next Rick Rolled.
Periander Jun 12, 2009 6:42 PM	This is pretty cool. Just FYI, you have to go to the Playstation Store and download/install it. I mean, you can do all of this via YouTube, but this is of a higher quality, has nice other features and is all legit. Still find searching via a keyboard a lot easier though. :P
tny Jun 12, 2009 10:27 PM	Why did I open this youtube link at work? ...

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