Pussycat Dolls - hitting your PS3 today.
VidZone launches on the PS3 today, opening up tonnes of free music videos for you to look (let's be honest, 'gawp') at.
The service will launch with over 10,000 videos on offer. Sony tells us, "It means that if you put them all into a single playlist and watched it for 24 hours a day, seven days a week – it would take you three solid weeks to watch it all. And there’s much, much more on the way."
Artists featured on the service include Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Fatboy Slim, Black Eyed Peas, Glasvegas, Dizzee Rascal, Pink (or 'P!nk' as we're told it should be spelled), Noisettes, Ne-Yo, Armand van Helden, Tori Amos and Akon.
To get it, you need to download the application (for free) from the PlayStation Store then find it under the music icon in the XMB. The service enables you to pick individual videos, queue up your own playlists and rewind and fast-forward through songs.
The service will launch with over 10,000 videos on offer. Sony tells us, "It means that if you put them all into a single playlist and watched it for 24 hours a day, seven days a week – it would take you three solid weeks to watch it all. And there’s much, much more on the way."
Artists featured on the service include Pussycat Dolls, Britney Spears, Fatboy Slim, Black Eyed Peas, Glasvegas, Dizzee Rascal, Pink (or 'P!nk' as we're told it should be spelled), Noisettes, Ne-Yo, Armand van Helden, Tori Amos and Akon.
To get it, you need to download the application (for free) from the PlayStation Store then find it under the music icon in the XMB. The service enables you to pick individual videos, queue up your own playlists and rewind and fast-forward through songs.
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DoctorDee 11 Jun 2009 13:57
1/3
I am going to be so pumped when I get to watch the Pussycat Dolls video in the privacy of my own games room.
config 11 Jun 2009 15:52
2/3
@DoctorDee they'll be almost lifesize projections on your wall, won't they?
config 12 Jun 2009 08:48
3/3
Downloaded and installed last night.
Impressions;
Reasonably large library but inevitably it's rammed with pop and RnB garbiage.
Solid streaming and very little buffer time on my modest 2Mb line.
Generally, good quality video and audio but annoyingly they're all 4:3 aspect ratio, so in "full screen" you get bars to the left/right. Some videos - e.g. Girl Aloud "Speak French" (corsets & cleavage, say no more) - seem to be of 16:9 original and been given the skinny fit treatment. Ick.
The main UI is confusing, and often not clear how you get back to some area. It doesn't tightly adhere to standard PS button uses. E.g. X doesn't "play now", it adds to the "now playing" list. For some this may make sense, but X has always been for immediate action to me. Adding to a saved playlist is a clickfest; triangle, down/down/down to "add to playlist", X, down/down/... to highlight preferred playlist, X to select, X to confirm.
The responsiveness of loading data is slooow - images take an unreasonable length of time to download and the search results ... FFS - it's just a bunch of XML or JSON! How can that be slow when you've got several metric tonnes of bandwidth for the video stream?
The search UI is a vile and despicable creation, seemingly tailored for a mobile application. E.g. you start with a bar and a box containing the letter "A". You have to scroll up/down to select the first letter, then click right to go on to the next letter, starting again at "A". It's a joke and feels like shovelware from a mobile app that was cutting edge in 1998. On WAP.
Search types are artist, title and genre. No year, which is a big fail, IMO. Genres are few and have to question; why bundle Pop and RnB? They're both too bloody nebulous as it is and, as I mentioned, it feels like it's the bulk of offering. And I don't there there's an Indie. Hmm, or dance. Maybe I'm mis-remembering?
There are ads - PS store titles and other stuff like Epson printers or Jobsites - all over the app UI and also fade in and out when the "now playing" artist info appears on full screen. What is annoying is that I accidentally hit X when a full screen video was on, and it dropped me out of Vidzone and took me off to the PS Store. When I quit that - because it wasn't actually what I wanted to do - and went back to Vidzone, it took at least a minute to start up! During that time, I had to what this stupid confidence slidey thing, wondering if it had crashed (so the confidence slidey thing failed to do its job)
Still, there's loads of Foo Fighter stuff on there, so I'll prolly just put that on a playlist and loop (click/click/click/click/click/click.....)
Impressions;
Reasonably large library but inevitably it's rammed with pop and RnB garbiage.
Solid streaming and very little buffer time on my modest 2Mb line.
Generally, good quality video and audio but annoyingly they're all 4:3 aspect ratio, so in "full screen" you get bars to the left/right. Some videos - e.g. Girl Aloud "Speak French" (corsets & cleavage, say no more) - seem to be of 16:9 original and been given the skinny fit treatment. Ick.
The main UI is confusing, and often not clear how you get back to some area. It doesn't tightly adhere to standard PS button uses. E.g. X doesn't "play now", it adds to the "now playing" list. For some this may make sense, but X has always been for immediate action to me. Adding to a saved playlist is a clickfest; triangle, down/down/down to "add to playlist", X, down/down/... to highlight preferred playlist, X to select, X to confirm.
The responsiveness of loading data is slooow - images take an unreasonable length of time to download and the search results ... FFS - it's just a bunch of XML or JSON! How can that be slow when you've got several metric tonnes of bandwidth for the video stream?
The search UI is a vile and despicable creation, seemingly tailored for a mobile application. E.g. you start with a bar and a box containing the letter "A". You have to scroll up/down to select the first letter, then click right to go on to the next letter, starting again at "A". It's a joke and feels like shovelware from a mobile app that was cutting edge in 1998. On WAP.
Search types are artist, title and genre. No year, which is a big fail, IMO. Genres are few and have to question; why bundle Pop and RnB? They're both too bloody nebulous as it is and, as I mentioned, it feels like it's the bulk of offering. And I don't there there's an Indie. Hmm, or dance. Maybe I'm mis-remembering?
There are ads - PS store titles and other stuff like Epson printers or Jobsites - all over the app UI and also fade in and out when the "now playing" artist info appears on full screen. What is annoying is that I accidentally hit X when a full screen video was on, and it dropped me out of Vidzone and took me off to the PS Store. When I quit that - because it wasn't actually what I wanted to do - and went back to Vidzone, it took at least a minute to start up! During that time, I had to what this stupid confidence slidey thing, wondering if it had crashed (so the confidence slidey thing failed to do its job)
Still, there's loads of Foo Fighter stuff on there, so I'll prolly just put that on a playlist and loop (click/click/click/click/click/click.....)
