Overheard at GDC 07: Disney's to blame for no downloadable movies

[wraggster]

via pspfanboy

Sony was supposed to offer full-resolution downloadable movies for the PSP, but the service has never come to fruition, citing "DRM problems." On the GDC showfloor, I overheard one Sony employee talking about how there's one giant stumbling block for Sony's potential movie download service: Disney. The giant media corporation doesn't want to make its catalog of movies available to Sony, most likely due to restrictions caused by their deal with Apple's iTunes Store.

But, why not go forth even without Disney's backing? Surely, Sony Pictures' vast library of movies would be more than enough to satiate a PSP-owning movie lover's tastes. However, as Connect proved, a half-assed attempt at digital distribution usually ends up quite fruitless.

[Broadus]

Oh, no! How will we live without downloadable movies?

[jwilds73]

Oh, no! How will we live without downloadable movies?

Maybe we could convert the movies we already own on DVD with a free utility or maybe we could say forget movies altogether and play games instead.

Great thing is we can also live without downloadable PSX content to by converting the titles we already own to run on our PSP's! :thumbup:

[Basil Zero]

Maybe we could convert the movies we already own on DVD with a free utility or maybe we could say forget movies altogether and play games instead.

Great thing is we can also live without downloadable PSX content to by converting the titles we already own to run on our PSP's! :thumbup:

Like the first psp commercial stated as the famous quote:


HELLZ YA

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: