Sony's wooing Hollywood for PS3
FROM VARIETY: Video download service set for summer
By Ben Fritz of Variety -- Video Business, 6/26/2008
JUNE 26 | FROM VARIETY: Sony is launching its long-promised video download service on the PlayStation 3 this summer, though it has yet to get most of Hollywood on board.At a Tokyo press conference on Thursday, vidgame topper Kaz Hirai announced plans to allow users to download movies and TV shows via the PS3 game console starting this summer in the U.S. and soon thereafter in Europe and Asia. Company has said such a service was in the works since the PS3 debuted in 2006.
However, insiders at numerous studios said they don't yet have deals in place to offer their movies on the PS3. Sony Pictures is believed to be the only one already confirmed.
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