Hope Restored for PS3 VidZone in North America
VidZone, the online music video service operated by London-based VidZone Digital Media, was released for the PlayStation 3 last June. However it’s only available in certain PAL territories, and currently has only outlined plans to expand further into PAL territories. Will the video service ever expand into North America?
Even though there hasn’t been much talk about bringing the service stateside, a glimmer of hope has been spotted. When asked via the official VidZone twitter account if the service would make it to the US, it was replied:
“Not in the US – yet
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Although this isn’t an official confirmation, it certainly restores hope to stateside PS3 owners. The word “yet” implies it’s being worked on, or at least the idea is being passed around internally.
14 Responses to “Hope Restored for PS3 VidZone in North America”
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November 4th, 2009 at 4:01 PM
thats neato…I think. I could do without a video zone but it would be cool to use every once and a while.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:12 PM
i read somewhere that hulu was there main issues not being in the US.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:36 PM
Hulu? All VidZone is is an application that lets you watch music videos, isn’t Hulu just tv shows?
Anyway, if it does come to the US it’ll probably take a fair while as it seems they are currently focused on getting the service available to as much of the PAL region as possible.
November 4th, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Hulu is going to start charging, sooooo…bring it on!
November 4th, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I don’t need Hulu or Vidzone, I can watch music videos anywhere on the internet (usually I don’t even do that cuz I really only care about the music itself not the videos) and I can watch most TV Shows for free on the given networks sites too, both FOX and ABC have pretty good episode players.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:12 PM
I agree with giesel095. It would be nice, but it is no big deal. You can get all the videos you need in the internet
November 4th, 2009 at 6:49 PM
what is the purpose of VidZone? Do you just watch music videos?
November 4th, 2009 at 7:42 PM
Yup just music videos, which is pretty cool. But I would still like to see this come to the U.S. .
November 4th, 2009 at 7:44 PM
sorry but your title is very miss leading… the US is not North America!!!! North America implies that this would come to Canada as well as Mexico.
November 4th, 2009 at 8:37 PM
I wouldn’t mind having Vidzone come to the U.S either. Although since I thought they were based in London that we wouldn’t see them, kinda like we don’t have Sky TV or the PS3 TV DVR attachment. So I thought that Sony would have to team up with MTV or VH1 or something in order to get the ball rolling on a free music video application. Personally I don’t really care who it’s from as long as it’s free.
November 4th, 2009 at 10:33 PM
useless IMO but yet another little feature to add so if it comes I will give it a look
November 5th, 2009 at 12:25 AM
I’ve gotten past caring about recieving this feature, it would be nice. But since I’m going to be recieving my Netflix BluRay soon, this doesn’t really concern me much anymore.
November 5th, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Please stop saying “North America” in these articles. The CRTC will never allow this in Canada. If they do, I’ll die of shock. Old retired fat cat bastards working there.
November 8th, 2009 at 6:38 PM
VidZone in the US would be awesome! It would be like how MTV used to be… before the crap tv and reality stuff they have now. Just give me music videos. (done venting)