Sony Adds 16 New Content Providers to the PSNetwork

E3 is bustling with new announcements, and one of them concerns some fresh offerings on Sony’s Playstation Network. They’re probably feeling a little pressure from Microsoft’s push to control your living room. Here’s the dirty:

Sony is adding movies, sports and entertainment programming from 16 new partners — including Showtime Networks, Starz Media, Comcast’s G4 and E!, HDNet and The Weinstein Company — to the PlayStation Network for its videogame consoles.

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With the additional content, the PlayStation Network video-delivery service will have nearly 1,900 movies and 9,400 TV episodes, covering reality, mixed martial arts, sports, anime, manga and animation genres. The PlayStation Store offers a combined total of nearly 9,000 hours of video-on-demand content, with more than 35% of the movies in HD format.

PlayStation Store will feature TV shows such as Showtime’s Dexter, E!’s The Soup, G4′s X-Play and Starz Media’s Painkiller Jane. New movies on the service will include films such as Overture Films’ “Righteous Kill,” Summit Entertainment’s “Twilight” and The Weinstein Company’s “Zack & Miri Make a Porno.”

Rumors of a PS3 price cut are very common right now. Something tells me Sony is fighing a tough battle though. Story at Multichannel.