As part of Sony’s ongoing effort to extend the PS3’s horizons beyond that of a purely gaming device, SCEE CEO David Reeves announced the launch of the new Vidzone video and music on demand service for the PS3. The free service will debut in Europe in 2009 allowing users to pick from a list of over 10000 songs. The service will allow users to listen to a variety of free tracks as often as they want. They can also build their own libraries and playlists. Songs will also be accesible via remote play on the PSP and can also be purchased as ringtones.
Vidzone precedes a full music download service that will arrive for the PlayStation 3 and PSP later in 2009, and the PS3’s movie choices will be expanding in Europe as well, with a PlayStation Network-based movie download service that will rival what already exists on the PS3 in North America also planned for 2009.
The announcement was made at the ongoing Games Convention currently taking place in Leipzig, Germany.
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