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Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc
Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc
PC World - January 7, 2008
Submitted by jameseyryan (225) at 4:49PM PST on January 7, 2008
Sony today demonstrated the next level of disc copying. At the company's booth at CES, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a Playstation Portable or a Memory Stick. "This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you," explains David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
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1welshbloke posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 12:25AM PST on January 8, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Discbids
1welshbloke posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 12:23AM PST on January 8, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Discbids
1Animate posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 8:59PM PST on January 7, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc@lstormy10,
I would counter that the PSP has seen a nice sales boost this Fall, and much of it is from the PSP Slim model which came with added features. Every additional feature to a console/portable makes it more appealing, and often it can result in someone buying the product before they may have planned to in the future. Also some people will buy something, i.e. PSP, a second time when the new model releases.
The new easy way to copy a BD disc (and probably DVD) will make many people very happy, instead of sitting and trying to encode a DVD and all of the hassle that involves on getting it onto a PSP. BD movie sales should benefit as you said. I also believe a slight increase in PSP and/or PS3 sales will happen when this feature and other new ones convince someone that owning both is better than only owning one.
I think the PS3 would likely give options of what resolution/quality to copy at, or it would be standardized to one setting for easy copying onto memory sticks & thus PSP.[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]bids
1apujanata posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 7:58PM PST on January 7, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc@lstormy10,
Your comment means that either there will be a movie scaler S/W / utilities on PS3, or it will depend on the movie itself to provide 2 version, one for HD, one for PSP (lower res version).
From your post, I hink you believe that this feature will not significantly add to PSP sales potential. Am I correct ?[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
2lstormy10 posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 7:19PM PST on January 7, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc@lstormy10,
I also like to add that if anything, this feature will just be seen as a positive if you were already considering a PSP or PS3 and already own the other or are considering both platforms. The most likely thing that this capability will do is to boost sales of Blu-Ray discs to current owners of the PS3 that also have a PSP if the service ends up being totally free.
Fix: In the first sentence of my previous post I meant to say "original resolution", not "original resoluation" - bad typo.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]bids
1lstormy10 posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 7:07PM PST on January 7, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc@apujanata,
Well you would not be copying the content in its original resoluation (because that would not make sense because of the lesser resolution of the PSP screen compared to that of HD content on the Blu-Ray disc), so the amount of space needed would probably be less than you would think. I believe this capability is one of those things where it is nice to have and all, but not something that I see people buying the PSP or PS3 to be able to do - it is like how Sony has already added a boatload of features to both platforms already (specially the PSP), but neither platform is seeing overall sales boosts from the added features.[ Oracle ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 294 ]bids
1apujanata posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 5:58PM PST on January 7, 2008. RE: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray Disc@jameseyryan,
This capability is nice, but is it practical ? Blu Ray is very big (40 GB or more ?), while Memory Stick is very small (usually 2 GB - 4 GB). Even though Sony has announced a 15 GB one, but are you really willing to spend US$ 300 to enable blu-ray on the move ?[ Oracle ] [ Level 30 ] [ Rank: 14935 ]bids
10jameseyryan posted on PlayStation Portable (PSP) at 4:49PM PST on January 7, 2008. Article: Sony Demos Copying From Blu-Ray DiscSony today demonstrated the next level of disc copying. At the company's booth at CES, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a Playstation Portable or a Memory Stick. "This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you," explains David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.[ Elite ] [ Level 21 ] [ Rank: 225 ]
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I do believe that this will not significantly add to PSP sales potential, so you are correct. I could see a valid argument that the PS3 will see a little bit of added sales from the feature (as PSP owners would want to be able to access the feature), but it will alone not have many people buy a system. Adding more features over time will probably add some more sales, but each individual feature alone does not add significant amount of sales. Also, in the electronics industry, the most featured packed device does not always win (look at the iPod).
@Joe80,
New models tend to boost sales more than new features. This is the case with the PSP Slim (and the DS Lite, etc). The PSP Slim really did not add all that many new features to the PSP platform, so its comparison with one new feature as in this case is very iffy.