Sony movie downloads

Sony is readying its online video challenge to the industry-leading Apple iTunes store, according to a new report. Looking to enhance its own Sony Connect music store offerings, The Wall Street Journal reports that Sony is prepping an upgrade to its online media service that will include the ability to purchase movies online and watch them on Sony's PlayStation Portable. Expected in early 2007, it will include movies from Sony Pictures Entertainment at inception, but is expected to include movies from other studios as well. Sony is also readying a video-downloading service that will allow consumers to bypass their personal computers and send new video content directly to their hand-held devices, the report said; however, the final release plans for the direct-to-handheld service is still unknown.

by MacNN Staff