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Sony Begins Selling HD Movies On Its PSN

Posted by Soulskill on from the pants-and-cheeseburgers-to-follow dept.

itwbennett writes "Sony on Tuesday 'rolled out the ability to buy HD movies from the PlayStation Network,' writes blogger Peter Smith. Sony claims they're the first service to offer HD titles to own from all six major movie studios. Smith runs the numbers on 'standard' pricing for titles ($19.99 for new releases; $17.99 for older movies), file sizes (ranging from 4 GB for Zombieland to 7.5 GB for 2012), and resolution (720P as far as he can tell)."

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  1. Re:The pricing is way off... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Indeed, it's strategies like this that made me stop working for Sony.

    Oh, that and the regular shafting by management.

    The irony is, management will email you and say "please tell us how to be a better company" and you tell them to try selling things that are a good value proposition and they don't want to know.

    For instance, I emailed the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe and told him that no-one would ever buy a UMD movie at that price/quality, but did he listen? Did he fuck.

    Sony needs to get rid of the morons in upper management and start listening to the people making the products.