Sony Demos Copying to PSP From Blu-ray Disc

[Zer0-Sum]

The concept of copying a lower-resolution version of a film from a packaged media disc to a portable device is not new--in fact, late last year, Fox and Warner released the first standard definition titles to offer this capability (on Live Free, Die Hard and Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, respectively).

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.

"There was always the promise of greater interactivity. You'll see that coming in the new year," Bishop added. In addition to the PSP copying example, Sony also demonstrated how you could download ring tones and new content to a BD Live player, using Men in Black as the example.

BD Live is proving to be a big catchphrase at the show: Panasonic announced its BD Live player yesterday, Fox showcased an early version of its Alien vs. Predator multiplayer game at the Blu-ray Disc Association's booth, and Sony showed its interactive Men in Black trivia game. The game was being played by two people in two locations on a Playstation 3.

Pretty crazy stuff, eh? Download all my Blu ray movies to my PSP. Guess I might really need that 16GB mem stick then! :pinky: I wonder how large the files will be? How will the format the Blu Ray movie for PSP? Will our PS3's do it? This is all madness I tell you! MADNESS!!! :thumbl:

[OG_Monkey]

Wait....so they are saying you will soon be able to copy your blu-ray disc to your PSP!? Wow. Im sure while its converting and what not the size will be fixed to fit, no more than 1.8GB probably

[Fillibuster]

Stellar. *Holds Breath*

[supagohan]

*Holds more breath*

[Old_Timer!]

No you don't download the Blu-ray version to your PsP, there is 2 versions of the film on the disc, a Hi-Def/Standard Def, you download the standard def version to your memory stick. Most likely we'll get an update to stream the movie to the psp as well. We've discussed this topic on here many times in the past, I'm glad it's coming to fruition.

[Coded-Dude]

No you don't download the Blu-ray version to your PsP, there is 2 versions of the film on the disc, a Hi-Def/Standard Def, you download the standard def version to your memory stick. Most likely we'll get an update to stream the movie to the psp as well. We've discussed this topic on here many times in the past, I'm glad it's coming to fruition.

qft

[OG_Monkey]

Yea, being able to stream the movie to your psp would be awesome.

[FantasyGhost]

Blu-ray-to-PSP Movie Transfers: How It's Gonna Work

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When we heard about Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers getting all official we got pretty excited, even though the announcement was a little skimpy on the details: How big are the files? How long will it take to download a movie? How odious is the DRM? Most importantly, when? Well, we've got 'em all right here.

The deets: The movies are around 1GB (standard def and PSP-optimized) and take about 3-5 minutes to download via USB to the Memory Stick Duo in your PSP. Currently, the idea is that they aren't stored locally on your PS3. Sony expects it to be available sometime this year—nothing more fine-grained than that timewise, unfortunately

The sweet news: For now, the plan is that the service will be free and it "can be used potentially on any Blu-ray movie title." Hopefully that means it'll be available for every Blu-ray title.

The potentially bleh news: Sony is still in the processing of reviewing how the DRM is going to work, and how portable the copies are going to be (important, since they're stored on Mem. Stick Duos, which are pretty pocketable.) In particular, the number of copies you can make from each disc is still up in the air—so it looks like how many friends you can share with is definitely going to be limited.

DRM-wise it's nothing unexpected—given Blu-ray's emphasis on strong copy protection, Sony's obviously not going to give free reign with the PSP copies. But even with some limits placed on the service, it stands to be one of the best PS3-PSP connections yet.http://gizmodo.com/342980/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-blu+ray+to+psp-movie-transfers

[Fats]

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[Zer0-Sum]

Wow, nice pics Fats. That rules, thank you. :)

I like what I see. It looks very simple to copy over a video from the PS3 to the the PSP. Good for Sony. For people that already own a PSP and a PS3 this is a VERY nice perk.

Oh and NICE PSP in the pics. Yah figure if you were going to do a demo, you would polish the PSP FIRST!! :lol:

[Fillibuster]

169MB? That is either a short video, or just plain badass!

[AbominatioN]

169MB probably due to the fact it's only 20 mins 58 secs long.
If I read that correct from the pics.

[r33hash]

That PSP was more than likely the only PSP available for display. Or one of a few. I can't imagine how many fingers touched that thing over the course of a day.

[Zer0-Sum]

That PSP was more than likely the only PSP available for display. Or one of a few. I can't imagine how many fingers touched that thing over the course of a day.

Yah, your most likely right, but damn that is nasty.

I need a bigger mem card for sure now. And Sony should make all PSP versions of any Blu Ray movie that we all ready own available for download after the these PSP enabled disks come out.

[cliffbo]

LOL... i love the way everyone is like 'WOW' as if we didn't already know about this. :) we've been talking about it for days now... i'll bump the poll i did to see if i get a different response LOLOL

[Zer0-Sum]

LOL... i love the way everyone is like 'WOW' as if we didn't already know about this. :) we've been talking about it for days now

That is because it is so damn kool....:pinky:

[Fats]

WOW LIEK OMG!

/sarcasm

Some people haven't seen the process visually Cliffbo, so it's a nice addition to see some pictures. Besides, you're usually the guy that allows some degree of freedom of speech. Why the sudden withdrawal from this? Maybe it's because you didn't post the pictures?

:lol:

[cliffbo]

That is because it is so damn kool....:pinky:

LOL... your right!

WOW LIEK OMG!

/sarcasm

Some people haven't seen the process visually Cliffbo, so it's a nice addition to see some pictures. Besides, you're usually the guy that allows some degree of freedom of speech. Why the sudden withdrawal from this? Maybe it's because you didn't post the pictures?

:lol:

LOL... :slinks back to my Rolly thread to post more pictures: :-p

[Bsack]

what a nifty little feature the PSP will have soon. Is this coming in some sort of update or something? When will this feature be available exactly?

[Fats]

^No one knows for sure because they're still pondering over how the DRM will work. If an update is needed it'll come in the form of a future firmware update.