I'm unaffected. I will never buy movies or tv shows through digital distribution. I like to be able to look at my shelf and see my collection, not to mention that HD movies would fill up a HDD pretty fast. As for rentals, I get unlimited movie rentals each month, including Blu-rays, from Blockbuster for $20. Why would I pay 3-5 to rent one movie? The service is there, for people who want it, on either system. As for not being able to re download a movie if you get a new system or HDD upgrade, you don't need to re-download it, just do a backup and then you can put all your old media on the new HDD.
How does no RROD make the PS3 cheaper? If someone gets the RROD, MS fixes it for free for 3 years.(so you only plan on having your 360 for 3 years well thats fine i suppose but what about the people who plan on keeping it 5-7 years ?)
skrat_01
Its worth noting that Disk Drive failures are only covered by a 1 year warrenty, and if your 360 RRODs twice in the 3 year warrenty it is only covered once.
I know this first hand, a mate of mine had to pay for a second RROD repair and a new disk drive, which in a combined total was almost the same price of an arcade 360 here.
thats not true at all ive gotten it fixed twice after the 1 yr. mark and both were free
I think since this is a new service atleast for buying movies from the psn that this was just a over sight. I think sony will fix this over time or in short order. I think as long as you bought the movie it should be yours and most are at a normal retail value, so as long as your account is signed in you should be able to redownload it to a new ps3 (or Hdd)and to the order of the 5 ps3 activated limit or even make that 2 ps3's activated if they want to lol.
But for the most part right now I think this is just a over sight on sony's part on this new service.
I think since this is a new service atleast for buying movies from the psn that this was just a over sight. I think sony will fix this over time or in short order. I think as long as you bought the movie it should be yours and most are at a normal retail value, so as long as your account is signed in you should be able to redownload it to a new ps3 (or Hdd)and to the order of the 5 ps3 activated limit or even make that 2 ps3's activated if they want to lol.
But for the most part right now I think this is just a over sight on sony's part on this new service.
GreyFoXX4
Or they are trying to save money on the bandwidth...
I'm not happy about this... because I downloaded a few episodes of s show... and found out I can't delete them now...
I was reading about the new PSN video store just now, and found out that when you buy a movie, or TV show, and you delete it, your HDD crashes, or buy a new PS3, you have to pay for the title again. What kind of crap is that?
You can only rent movies on the 360, but at least when you buy a TV show, it's yours for good. Even if you delete it, XBL remembers that you already bought it, and can re-download it for free.
Is Sony really that desperate for money?
MortalDecay
Sony probably is counting on there console not breaking frequently. MS doesn't have the luxury of that.
Umm the reason you can't dl movies on different PS3s is because of over-sharing. Sony really cracked down on that about 6 months ago because people were buying the add-ons and just logging on to different peoples ps3 and letting them dl it.I never heard bout your HDD crashing but hell if i know i don't use the service.
I need to check but the last time I seen about this issue they were stating that you couldn't redownload onto another harddrive. That would mean you can delete it and redownload it but just not to a new ps3 or to another new hdd. Hope I had read that right.
How does no RROD make the PS3 cheaper? If someone gets the RROD, MS fixes it for free for 3 years.(so you only plan on having your 360 for 3 years well thats fine i suppose but what about the people who plan on keeping it 5-7 years ?)
shadow_hosi
Its worth noting that Disk Drive failures are only covered by a 1 year warrenty, and if your 360 RRODs twice in the 3 year warrenty it is only covered once.
I know this first hand, a mate of mine had to pay for a second RROD repair and a new disk drive, which in a combined total was almost the same price of an arcade 360 here.
thats not true at all ive gotten it fixed twice after the 1 yr. mark and both were free
Really?
Well im not sure if its the same for all regions but that friend of mine has certainly been screwed over by MS.
I was reading about the new PSN video store just now, and found out that when you buy a movie, or TV show, and you delete it, your HDD crashes, or buy a new PS3, you have to pay for the title again. What kind of crap is that?
You can only rent movies on the 360, but at least when you buy a TV show, it's yours for good. Even if you delete it, XBL remembers that you already bought it, and can re-download it for free.
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