European video download service 'Go!View' now live
The fruits of Sony and Sky's partnership (which, scarily, we first reported on just under a year ago) is now finally available to the masses. Go!View allows you to download video content to your PSP across an array of genres for a relatively small fee. Content travels to your PSP via a PC, so Mac users are sadly left out in the cold. Pricing runs on both a subscription model and a pay-per-view model, depending on the content you are viewing.
Movies and "Latest TV" will all be individually priced and include series 1 of Doctor Who (not sure that counts as "latest", seeing as series 4 just finished), season 3 of Lost and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. TV episodes are priced at £1.50/€2.00 with movies at £2.50 - £3.50 (€3.20 - €4.50). Alternatively, there are "Entertainment," "Comedy" and "Sports" subscription packs which cost £5/€7 per month and let you download as much content as you like.
These subscription packs are surprisingly fleshed out with classic 70s Doctor Who, Scrubs, Life On Mars, Red Dwarf and Coupling. The assumption is that the site will be constantly updated with more content, but we notice this fact isn't advertised. It seems like a pretty decent service to grab UK-centric on-the-go video content, but we would love to see it somehow integrated into the EU PSN Store. Might lessen the sting of knowing we're not getting a video-download service until 2009.
Movies and "Latest TV" will all be individually priced and include series 1 of Doctor Who (not sure that counts as "latest", seeing as series 4 just finished), season 3 of Lost and Resident Evil: Apocalypse. TV episodes are priced at £1.50/€2.00 with movies at £2.50 - £3.50 (€3.20 - €4.50). Alternatively, there are "Entertainment," "Comedy" and "Sports" subscription packs which cost £5/€7 per month and let you download as much content as you like.
These subscription packs are surprisingly fleshed out with classic 70s Doctor Who, Scrubs, Life On Mars, Red Dwarf and Coupling. The assumption is that the site will be constantly updated with more content, but we notice this fact isn't advertised. It seems like a pretty decent service to grab UK-centric on-the-go video content, but we would love to see it somehow integrated into the EU PSN Store. Might lessen the sting of knowing we're not getting a video-download service until 2009.









Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
leno @ Jul 23rd 2008 3:57PM
France Go!View here : http://www.gopspgo.com/fr_FR/view-overview
Miharu @ Jul 23rd 2008 4:43PM
Of course when it's launched in Europe that means pretty much UK only.
Hashbrown Hunter @ Jul 23rd 2008 4:44PM
Interesting. Well I'm guessing this is why the EU PS video store wasn't planned to release alongside the US one.
cy-rano @ Jul 23rd 2008 8:08PM
Can we download on it from the US?
SoCoolCurt (PSN: KillaKornbread) @ Jul 23rd 2008 11:16PM
i hate this new "Go!" branding thing that Sony has adopted. it just looks so corny to me. i think they could have come up with something much more attractive.
hexhunter @ Jul 24th 2008 9:14AM
Maybe I'll try the trial, but I'd rather not subscribe to Sky, or any other Murdock company.
Does this mean that we'll never get a video store because they have a deal with Sky???
Duh @ Aug 27th 2008 5:59PM
I'm confused... I thought the PSP had WiFi? Why do these videos have to go through a PC? Apparently the Amazon Kindle can receive e-books pushed straight to the device - why hasn't the PSP caught up with this?