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Sony Music Joins Universal on VeVo

Sony has hopped on the VeVo train. In case you forgot, VeVo is Universal Music’s and YouTube’s joint effort to help monetize the popular music video traffic through YouTube. Details:

Sony Music is joining the online video destination [...] though details on the terms of the deal were not disclosed.  Following today’s announcement there remains two majors who have not signed on to the service – Warner Music and EMI.

The news indicates that Vevo is not meant just to be a hub for Universal music videos, but an extensive online destination for music content from many different sources, much like hulu is for TV programming.  While it is not clear if EMI or Warner will join, the addition of a second major puts pressure on them to participate or be left behind.  If all the majors signed onto the service it would make growing a large audience along the lines of hulu more achievable since users could access a much wider catalog of content.

VeVo is still in development, but you can sign up for updates if that’s your thing. Story courtesy of PaidContent.

New Sony PSP Go a Download Only Portable

Sony has wisely opted to make their updated PSP unit a download only machine. Details:

The PSP Go is the industry’s first portable advanced gaming system that solely plays downloadable content. Users will be able to access Sony’s download marketplace, PlayStation Store, on PSP Go’s screen via its built-in wireless connection. Sony has signed on new content partners for its PlayStation Store, including Showtime Networks, Starz Media, Summit Entertainment, The Weinstein Co., HDnet and Magnolia Pictures.

PSP Go, with 16 gigabytes of internal flash memory, will street on Oct. 1 in North America and Europe for $249. It is 50% smaller and 40% lighter than Sony’s original PSP design.

Going forward all PSP games will be released as both downloads and physical UMD product. Sony plans to continue supporting its $169-priced PSP 3000, which plays physical media as well as downloaded content transferred from the Playstation 3.

After the widely ridiculed and failed format of UMD, Sony seems to have wised up. Still, the portable marketplace is really changing with smart phones taking over that territory slowly but surely. Story thanks to VidBiz.

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.

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