Author Topic: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?  (Read 2734 times)

Offline idolminds

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Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 01:48:00 PM »
Yeah...don't.

You get one download. If you need to delete the thing to make room for game demos or other movies, you have to call Sony and they will let you download it once more. Then that's it. Can you even back the files up to anything?

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #1 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 02:36:37 PM »
And you wonder why I prefer buying products on DISC, most of the time...

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #2 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 03:21:56 PM »
Yeah, it may be 'old school' of me, but I'll always buy physical media when given a choice.

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #3 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 03:37:31 PM »
Yeah, it may be 'old school' of me, but I'll always buy physical media when given a choice.

Unless there is no DRM in the digital download like GOG does and I can back-up the file on disc...

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #4 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 05:20:41 PM »
Yeah...don't.

You get one download. If you need to delete the thing to make room for game demos or other movies, you have to call Sony and they will let you download it once more. Then that's it. Can you even back the files up to anything?
Man, that's screwed up.

Weren't we all having the same discussion regarding Steam and "what if" they did things this way?

I'm with the old-fashioned crowd on physical media.

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #5 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 06:27:07 PM »
Absolutely.  If I buy something, it's going to be in a box on a disc.  If it isn't, you can generally forget it, with very few exceptions.  PSN games would be that exception, of which I own a couple.

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #6 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 06:47:13 PM »
Movie rentals work very well on the 360, and I imagine the PS3 does just as well.  Buying movies this way, though, can't possibly work if the content is locked to a single system.  And then you can't even re-download it should the need arise?  Ridiculous.

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Re: Thinking of buying something from the PSN video store?
« Reply #7 on: Monday, September 22, 2008, 11:55:53 PM »
Unless there is no DRM in the digital download like GOG does and I can back-up the file on disc...

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