Qriocity, Sony’s Newest Service Uses PSN ID to Sign into Other Sony Electronics
A few weeks ago, a trademark filed by Sony was uncovered. Dubbed Qriocity, the title alone piqued our “curiosity”. Originally we speculated it may have been a Qore-like service for the PSP. However, it seems as though Qriocity is Sony’s first attempt at bringing PlayStation Network ID services to other Sony products including network enabled Bravia HDTVs, VAIO PCs, and Sony’s upcoming line of Blu-Ray players.
It turns out that Qriocity is Sony’s upcoming Video on Demand service offered through various Sony electronics such as network-enabled Bravia HDTVs or as the below video shows, Sony’s upcoming Blu-Ray player the BDP-S370. The service, tests your internet connections and gives you a “bandwidth optimized” version of the the movie you are looking to stream, along with many other cools features.
Sony haven’t announced any solid release date plans, but the word from the CES show floor is that the service is set to roll out this February with “hundreds: of titles available at launch. Another interesting point to note, the service will use the PlayStation Network ID system to sign in. Each HDTV, or Blu-Ray player will allow for multiple PSN accounts for different levels of access for different age groups.
Sony have also not yet released any details on pricing, whether or not this will be a subscription-based service, or a pay-per-movie service has yet to be revealed.
Thanks Karissa for the tip!
11 Responses to “Qriocity, Sony’s Newest Service Uses PSN ID to Sign into Other Sony Electronics”
I’d use it
I wonder if this will be like the video store where canada is left out completely or we get a crippled version or what.
So PSN video store for your tv/bluray player. oooh wow. What is with the music? Must… not… fall… asleep…………
anyone know the name of the music piece in the youtube video? I kinda like it.
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uhhh… is this gonna be on ps3 too, or are we still stuck with netflix?
I’m assuming the PS3 will be “stuck with” Netflix for a while BigWoop since we just got it and they will keep this new service exclusive to the TVs and blu-ray players…I may be wrong though.
I don’t know what my next TV should be though. Sony is going to be adding some great new services through their TVs, but I just heard about that new Toshiba TV that uses a Cell processor, like is in the PS3, and can produce resolutions twice that of our current standard 1080p…and I really don’t like investing money in old technology. So if a new higher resolution is going to be coming soon I don’t want to put much into 1080p.
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I looked at a Video for it, while the Toshiba TV does look cool, it’s not coming out anytime soon, possibly next year. Your best bet is to invest in a fully 3D ready TV, that Toshiba model is going to be crazy expensive anyway.
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The song is Gonzales “Solo Piano” which was originally written by classic French composer Satie. That Gonzales record is lovely Highly suggested.
Are all those titles exposed in this demo Sony Pictures only?