On-demand movies for PSP

Sony is preparing a digital video download service for PSP, enabling owners of the handheld to download movies to their PCs before transferring them to PSP for mobile viewage, according to a newspaper report.

The on-demand service, planned for launch early next year, will not require any upgrades to your PSP's hardware, says the Financial Times - apart from, perhaps, a stupidly big memory stick on which to store everything.

Interestingly, one of the big features inPS3's March 2007 updatewill also bring movie downloads to PSP, enabling you to watch your downloaded PS3 content on your PSP. Sony is desperate to convince gamers that PSP is more than just a gaming device - better movie support and availability than with UMD's poor showing would be a big step towards achieving that.

December 19, 2006

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.