KnackChap Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006194.html The concept of copying a lower-resolution version of a film from a packaged media disc to a portable device is not new--in fact, late last year, Fox and Warner released the first standard definition titles to offer this capability (on Live Free, Die Hard and Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, respectively). Sony today demonstrated the next level of disc copying. At the company's booth at CES, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a Playstation Portable or a Memory Stick. "This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you," explains David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. "There was always the promise of greater interactivity. You'll see that coming in the new year," Bishop added. In addition to the PSP copying example, Sony also demonstrated how you could download ring tones and new content to a BD Live player, using Men in Black as the example. BD Live is proving to be a big catchphrase at the show: Panasonic announced its BD Live player yesterday, Fox showcased an early version of its Alien vs. Predator multiplayer game at the Blu-ray Disc Association's booth, and Sony showed its interactive Men in Black trivia game. The game was being played by two people in two locations on a Playstation 3. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- this is possibly one of the coolest things to come out from CES08 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 woah,nice find KC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 ^^ WOW, that is a cool selling point. Now pleeeeeeeeeeze Sony and the Gang !!! Get rid of region encoding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Sweet Find KC. That's what happens when your console(portable+living room) maker Sony is an electronic giant, supporting a leading HD format(BLU) and a big Hollywood studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 ^^ WOW, that is a cool selling point. Now pleeeeeeeeeeze Sony and the Gang !!! Get rid of region encoding. Actually you got this region locking thing wrong. It is not sony or BDA who are enforcing. BDA facilitates the region locking as another aspect of BLU format. It is the content publisher who locks the content. Planet Earth is not region locked. I got Harry Potter Gift set on BLU. Thats not region locked. Where as spider-man trilogy is. Most of the Warner Bros. contents are region free, for that matter. So you see, not all BLU contents are region locked. Capish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarketTantrik Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Sony is the biggest content publisher in the Blu Ray format. So if they region lock their own content and then crow about freedom of choice, they have got their heads up their a$$, Kapish ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Sony is the biggest content publisher in the Blu Ray format. Not bigger than WB. 113+ titles on BLU from WB, i guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argruid Posted January 9, 2008 Report Share Posted January 9, 2008 I dont think the Spiderman trilogy is region locked. I remember seeing them at a friends place and they were region free as far as i remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnackChap Posted January 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 When we heard about Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers getting all official we got pretty excited, even though the announcement was a little skimpy on the details: How big are the files? How long will it take to download a movie? How odious is the DRM? Most importantly, when? Well, we've got 'em all right here. The deets: The movies are around 1GB (standard def and PSP-optimized) and take about 3-5 minutes to download via USB to the Memory Stick Duo in your PSP. Currently, the idea is that they aren't stored locally on your PS3. Sony expects it to be available sometime this year—nothing more fine-grained than that timewise, unfortunately The sweet news: For now, the plan is that the service will be free and it "can be used potentially on any Blu-ray movie title." Hopefully that means it'll be available for every Blu-ray title. The potentially bleh news: Sony is still in the processing of reviewing how the DRM is going to work, and how portable the copies are going to be (important, since they're stored on Mem. Stick Duos, which are pretty pocketable.) In particular, the number of copies you can make from each disc is still up in the air—so it looks like how many friends you can share with is definitely going to be limited. DRM-wise it's nothing unexpected—given Blu-ray's emphasis on strong copy protection, Sony's obviously not going to give free reign with the PSP copies. But even with some limits placed on the service, it stands to be one of the best PS3-PSP connections yet. [sony] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vinitwins Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 i dont mind watching animated content/dramadies (tv shows) on the PSP, but action movies/fast-paced sequences appear laggy due to the screen's slower response time. V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lastAvenger Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 man i wish this gets extended to other portable devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot-Drake-Pixel Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 Seriously, I didn't see this(blu-ray containing PSP rip) coming. Or, I would have gone for bigger memory stick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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