Sony Demos Copying From Blu-ray Disc to PSP


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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.

Source: http://n4g.com/tech/News-97702.aspx

Everything You Wanted to Know About Blu-ray-to-PSP Movie Transfers

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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.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/342980/everything-you-w...movie-transfers

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That's quite interesting...I wonder:

1) Will it only be allowed on discs that have some kind of data on them, eg, a file that has a "yes, allow copying to psp" flag or something, or would it be allowed on all discs?

2) How long before a lawsuit? :p

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It's going to be bound to your PSP as far as I can see it.

When you load up remote play your PSP registers with your PS3.

And it's no different to taking your copy of the movie round to your friends to watch.

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Hmm, that sounds like a really great feature actually. It'll probably be in a really weird format and super heavy encryption, though. I'm just wondering how exactly they're going to stop people from using this to pirate PSP Blu-Ray movies?

I'm personally shocked that they didn't attempt streaming the blu-ray movie to your PSP via remote play first, really (unless this is already done and I don't know about it, in which case if it is, that's severely kick ass)

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Hmm, that sounds like a really great feature actually. It'll probably be in a really weird format and super heavy encryption, though. I'm just wondering how exactly they're going to stop people from using this to pirate PSP Blu-Ray movies?

They aren't releasing PSP movies in Blu Ray.

From my understanding you buy the NORMAL Blu Ray movie on Blu Ray disc, pop it in your PS3 and you can copy a compressed/quality reduced version to your PSP.

Piracy isn't an issue. Sony aren't ripping the 720p/1080p movie to the PSP, they are putting a what, 400x360? or something compressed movie onto the PSP.

The pirates already rip Blu Ray, and DVD just now (both you could technically put on your PSP by transcoding your rips to PSP format) :p

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Hmm, that sounds like a really great feature actually. It'll probably be in a really weird format and super heavy encryption, though. I'm just wondering how exactly they're going to stop people from using this to pirate PSP Blu-Ray movies?

I'm personally shocked that they didn't attempt streaming the blu-ray movie to your PSP via remote play first, really (unless this is already done and I don't know about it, in which case if it is, that's severely kick ass)

think psp supports the same h264 codecs, might just be a case of the ps3 repackaging and downscaling each film. given the capabilities of the cell it should not take too long to re-encode.

They aren't releasing PSP movies in Blu Ray.

From my understanding you buy the NORMAL Blu Ray movie on Blu Ray disc, pop it in your PS3 and you can copy a compressed/quality reduced version to your PSP.

Piracy isn't an issue. Sony aren't ripping the 720p/1080p movie to the PSP, they are putting a what 400x360 or something compressed movie onto the PSP.

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hopefully its not a file on the disc thats copied and its a transcoded copy of the main feature, hope we can do stuff like film extras and tv series.

also I hope that it looks up track names etc automatically

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Nice idea ! Finally the big companies are learning to work with our wants of being able to copy movies and stuff to portable media devices :) With all the law suits going around copyright issues I rekcon this will have some crap from the lawyers...but oh well. Loving the idea...will stick to my comp but :)

How many movies could the PSP even hold ? Arent B.R. movies huge anyways ? being compressed down...how much too ? How big is the HDD in a PSP ?

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Interesting but you wont find me getting a psp until it comes with a big ass hd.

Would be much better if the ps3 could re-encode/trasncode the movie to work with any PMP you own. We all know thats not gonna happen though.

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sounds intresting, would love to see it in action, to be honest id love to remote play, DVD, Blu-Ray and pretty much everything on the PS3 to PSP. That includes games and demos. Warhawk on the PSP does not sound bad :)

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Interesting but you wont find me getting a psp until it comes with a big ass hd.

Would be much better if the ps3 could re-encode/trasncode the movie to work with any PMP you own. We all know thats not gonna happen though.

Surely you have a PC and can figure it out...

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The question is will you be able to copy onto other portables or will this be another sony exclusive "buy our shi t" thing.

it will probably be only available for their own products....that way they attract more users. can you blame them for that?

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That's cool :) Glad they have the option, wonder if you could copy it to a PC hard drive one day... hmmm...

That was one advantage of HD-DVD, the former competitor to Blu-ray. I think the BD Group should give Microsoft a call and say "This is your permission to add that feature into Windows." Think of the benefits - you could rip it to a Windows Home Server and watch it on any 360 or PC in the house!

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That was one advantage of HD-DVD, the former competitor to Blu-ray. I think the BD Group should give Microsoft a call and say "This is your permission to add that feature into Windows." Think of the benefits - you could rip it to a Windows Home Server and watch it on any 360 or PC in the house!

if its locked down to just the ps3 and an assigned psp, they can encrypt it as such, if they opened it up for PC then it would be wide open to piracy.

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