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VidZone launches June 11 with three weeks worth of content

by Jem Alexander on Jun 10th 2009 1:00PM

VidZone, Sony's Europe exclusive free streaming music service, is on the cusp of launching. The date has been set for June 11, mere hours away, and SCEE has announced that you'll be able to enjoy a huge amount of content on day one. More specifically, there will be three solid weeks of content available to stream on launch day. The press release also promises that there's "much, much more on the way."

While these 10,000 videos are exclusive to Europe, there's nothing stopping people in the US from downloading it from the PlayStation Store via their European -- er, friend's -- account. Whether or not Sony has put an IP region lock on the software itself is unknown. We'll find out for sure tomorrow.

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Reader Comments (37)

wow an annoucement the day before. is there guna be an firmware update or will it just appear in the store? or maybe in the xmb suddenly like home did

You will have to download from the EU PS Store.

Question: Why aren't they planning on a US release? Just curious. This sounds like a really cool feature.

whoop de fuckin' doo. I bought a ps3 for gaming/blu-ray movies, not for music videos.

so this will be like pandora or something similar?

They already announced it on june 4th.. http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2009/06/04/e3-interview-vidzone/

And it will most likely be IP region locked as everyone in the EU wont get access to Vidzone at the beginning. The following countries will get it on June 11th:
UK, Ireland, Australia, Italy, France, Spain and Germany

and Denmark??? WTF!! arrrhhhhhhh

Here is to hoping there is a IP block simply out of spite really. vidstore is exclusive to US and there is loads of stuff I am willing to give Sony money for but I suppose if I must watch it they want me to use other means and use the internet to get it.

i have a solution. ovguide

Dude. Just make a US account than, join the best country in the history of ancient and modern civilization.

@ D_Average I have a US account, as well as a japanese, UK and Hong kong account. BUT the video store is block if you dont live in the USA even Canadians dont have access. Get your fact straight and...

@ Jeres what is ovguide (google search) so its like a search engine for tv and movie streams. Interesting.

after first review alot of the sites this ovguide points too are US network tv websites which are also IP blocked. so yeah tvversity and eztv

I see. All the more reason to move here then!

will you be my US visa sponser? would so move.

Hrm, be an interesting way to drum up interest for new bands/album releases here in the US if publishers weren't so insistent on entrenching their distribution methods in business models that worked a decade ago, making them inherently phobic of any digital distribution method...

I think it would be a smart move for Sony US to do something along these lines. Imagine being able to run Pandora while playing a game. Or maybe, as much as I dread it, an MTV style application that will let you watch music videos.

Just an idea.

Yeah, but we also said that about the US Movie Video store...

MTV plays music videos?!

MTV plays music!

Does this mean that VidZone will release over 3000 videos every week?!

10,000 videos / 3 weeks worth of content = 3333 videos

To clarify, the "three weeks of content" means that if you were to listen to every song available at launch it would take you three weeks of solid listening.

That's what I thought, but then I remembered that it's SCEE...

I believe it means that if you were to press "START" and not prss "STOP" ntil every song had played, it would take roughly 3 whole weeks of non-stop playing.

Maybe i got the wrong end of the stick

That's what they anounced before. Adding thousands of videos every week.

Cant wait for this when my m8s come over we allways listen to music on my PS3 now we can watch a load as well.

It's a pitty it's not comming to switzerland ... at least Sony switzerland is unable to give any specific information ...

Wait, why isn't this coming to the US exactly? I'm curious. I would be interested if it did.

while i must admit that we in the US get way more game content than our other PS3 gamers, alot of the other territories get way cooler stuff like this and PlayTV. I want a PlayTV. Hopefully the DTV changeover will change all of that and we'll see a release date for PlayTV, VidZone, and all the other multimedia offerings SCEA has been holding out on us.

I'll try to get this tomorrow....if it works lol

Whats that symbol on the XMB? in between network and game!?!??!

Also, i'm really looking forward to this, its awesome that EU are getting some great content

I dont kno why they always get the cool shit and we get nothing.

It's time to make a U.K account

It's already dead. Sony can't release anything without a lump of downtime at the start.

Yay! Finally us Brits get summin 1st! :P
Oh and PlayTV aint all that gr8...

@Jerses I tried ovguide myself and live in Canada.

What happens when I try to view a show is that it tells me I'm in Canada and can't access the video.

I've got a feeling Vidzone is going to do this as well...hope not, but lately most sites are region blocking due to different countries laws.

I know I have a US account and it still won't let me download the US Movies from the PSN.

Well it's IP based can't get in.

The app is IP REGION locked!!! Trying an UK account and it does not work for me! (I live in ROMANIA)

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