Sony has made good on its promise to deliver the Quickflix movie streaming service to the PS3 before Christmas, with the service going live on PS3s everywhere today tomorrow.
The $15 a month service offers the ability to stream unlimited movies to your console. Well, unlimited until your broadband limit is reached, anyway. It’s a free download from the Playstation Store, and will appear as its own option in the XMB after installation.
Current Quickflix subscribers can upgrade to the streaming service for as little as $7 a month as well.
It’s the closest service we’ve gotten to Netflix here in Australia, and while the movie selection could use a little work, it’s a promising start. Has anyone tested it out yet? Let us know your thoughts when it launches tomorrow.
Christian
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:35 AMthe argument for channel BT is becoming less and less valid…
suck on it pirates!
Duck Pancakes
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:48 PMStill no up to date TV shows.
JB
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:50 AMhaven’t tested it but will try when I get home. selection is something to be desired however the whole whatchnow service from quickflix is only a month old. looking forward to ppv from them early next year. the idea of watching via the ps3 is something I’ve been waiting for. And yes I’m aware sony have their own movie service but its speeds totally sucks!! so assuming quickflix maintain their streaming speeds with ppv, bring it on!!
Richard
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:54 AMI was just in the PSN store and it’s not there. Did a search, checked both games and video sections.
JB
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:58 AMI’m with you Christian – Its fricken unbelievable how many many of my peers – on excess of $80K a year – refuse to pay for their movies (they illegally download movies). the days of “oh its just easier” are over. pay for it you tight arses! and yes I say that to them all the time.
Drew
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:08 PM$1 Unlimited DVD and Stream until Christmas
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Glenn
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:09 PMHow did you get that, it’s showing me $15?
Drew
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:13 PMI called them and asked.
Glenn
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:21 PMWhere you already an existing customer or did you just say “I want a $1 subscription?”
When does your sub go back to the regular price?
light487
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM“movie selection could use a little work” major understatement there. I will be waiting till they have a decent amount of movies, including new releases, before I will bother even “trialing” it.
Glenn
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:05 PMI will definitly check this out, but I need to know if these movies are in 1080p or not. If the quality is ass I’ll just go back to importing Blu-rays.
Edward
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 1:44 PMThe streaming quality on pc is good. I would say that its equal to dvd.
Christian
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:06 PMbut the sound will be shit arse
Drew
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:41 PMHow would you know? You don’t, so shut up.
Erebus
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:49 PMConfirmation on if its 720p at least and what the audio will be like is needed.
Oh, and a much better selection than what they have now which is what Foxtel was showing about 10 years ago…
Erebus
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 2:58 PMWell just reading the user guide for the PS3 I found on the quickflix website:
video: 480p
audio: 128kbps, AAC Audio, Stereo
So they are only streaming DVD quality? (video, not audio) which is a massive shame in this day and age. Its not an incentive at all.
Glenn
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 3:26 PMThat, plus the lack of selection makes this a no-go for me for the time being then.
Duck Pancakes
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:53 PMThat’s lame. I want full HD with 5.1 channel surround, decent movies and up to date TV series for the US. Then I will be more happy to pay even double the price.
Sam
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 3:41 PM@Erebus – There’s far more to the picture than just resolution. I for one would much rather have a 480p picture with less compression applied, than 1080p with compression wound up to 11 and full of artifacts.
Really though, they’re not selling a service to compete with with BluRay – so it’s unfair to expect the quality of one.
Glenn
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 4:03 PMYoutube can do 720p and 1080p, shouldn’t be hard to expect from this as well… at least 720p.
Sam
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 4:34 PMThen go to YouTube and watch movies there then :)
Chise
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 3:29 PMThe quality is fine but the selection is terrible. Warner brothers stuff from 10-20 years ago, the service may be worth it once that situation improves.
Duck Pancakes
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 5:55 PMJust looked at the website. Only 14 movies from the last ten years!
Murray
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 8:32 AMIts like walking into a video store that hasnt updated to dvd’s. Sooo last century
Alan
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:10 PMI would subscribe if it could take payments from my PSN wallet like Mubi can.