New Playlists For VidZone

Hi

I have contacted Vidzone through Twitter and email about me not being able to play 30-35 videos of dance music that is on my vidzone, shows a hazard icon (eric prydz etc) any news of any fix?? Sure it isnt copyright because it wouldnt be on vidzone spain if it wasnt playable cos of that.

Well done on VidZone its excellant and sit there watching music vids all day.

Just a little problem I’ve been having, when searching vid titles it automatically searches for beginning with “A” straight away which can take ages before you can change it to whatever letter you want. Is it possible to delay this a bit so we can change the letter before it automatically starts searching.

Everything else is wicked, so keep up the good work..

Adam x

Thanks for the update. I love VidZone. This is such an awesome application and it’s great for the PS3. Even my Xbox-loving buddy was impressed.

The new playlists are great but can you implement / ask the devs to implement support for the official Sony Blu-ray remote control please? Using the dualshock 3 to control VidZone is really frustrating. Plus if you want to promote VidZone as a tool for parties, where anyone in the room can skip tracks and so on isn’t it better to support an intuitive interface provided by Sony’s blu-ray remote, rather than explaining to people the whole R1 L1, R1, L2 thing?

Bring it to Belgium! I suppose the rest of Europe is eagerly anticipating the coming of this great service. Please send updates asap on the status of the other territories, or perhaps just an indicator. You guys must know something. I’d be happy to know if VidZone is coming 09/09, or just in which quarter it’s comming to Belgium. Or for the other european countries.

Thanks Ben – I’ll try it out when I get home!

Hey,
great to hear that the blu-ray remote is working
but what i would REALLY like to see is keyboard support…
it is a real PAIN to scroll through all the letters with the controller. so support for the sony keypad or any other keyboard would be really nice.

Looks good, but I would like more Dance/Electronic music videos in the future.

Keep up the good work ^^.

oh forgot to mention that… there is an easier way to change the controller number…
just start vidzone and push the PS-Button for 2 seconds -> go to controller settings and set the number. DONE
so you needn’t to go through all the menus

and i can confirm the remote is working

I didn’t think Vidzone was a big deal when it was announced but the service really is something unique. congrats on a job well done everyone and thanks for the update on new playlists

I love VidZone; great app.

Can you add more Irih music?

I think VidZone’s great and I’m well impressed by the amount of content, but here’s a my list of improvements that I think would make it even better (sorry for repeats of other peoples)

1. Better playlist management. Even if just a simple “clear all” option added.
2. Normalisation of vid volume.
3. Searching. As another poster has noted, going into the search by track title will hang any further input as the program tries to find all tracks beginning with A right away. Change search to use the normal keypad input and also search within titles? It’s a pain having to put “the” to find artists like “the who”
4. Widescreen support of videos.

Cheers and keep up the good work.

oooppps I meant Irish lol

Make it available in Denmark… and stop ignoring people asking about when it will be out in the rest of Europe. Thank you.

BeanDK ->Second that

any update on improving the search input
it slow and takes to long have
cant you include the PS3 type input option
like for sending messages
be soo much quicker to type what looking for

do the featured playlists stay there forever or would I have to copy them to keep them in my own library??

Hi Ben,
Any news on why there are no Warner Music artists on VidZone?
I would really like to see artists like Muse, Green Day Linkin Park and blink-182 on VidZone.
Great service thanks!

Another vote from Poland! Please, give us VidZone!

I like it ;P + It’s FREE so i can’t complain! ;D

R.I.P MJ

give Poland this option this we will talk…

Ben Creasey,
Can you give us some information on what the current status is of other territories?

Any chance of the search feature being fixed in the near future? Annoying to not just be able to type it
Also, im just wondering why there’s no music by Linkin Park on the service even though on the download page for VidZone in the PS Store it says Linkin Park is Featured?

Bring it to Norway!! I will use it at every party.

Please please please bring Japanese artist to the video store i really want to see Ai Otsuka music video’s up there and some others.

Please make this happen.

the things fat but you need more reggae buju banton mavdo damian marley etc

i hope japanese song come in vidzone soon

O and Also i rally don’t understand why you only have one video from Brandy when she has around about 10 video’s and yet you nearly have all of A*Teens music video’s up what up with that?

You don’t have Danity Kane or Day 26 on there ether.

Make’s me wonder how meny people are working on ur team and if you even listen to what we customers the people that use the service have to say at all.

I emailed for Danity Kane but so far no response. Whilst I appreciate the the updates here I think it’s a bit crazy that certain updates will happen at certain places first. Why can’t the updates be kept in one place so people aren’t asking for the same thing over and over again.

Please, fix the AC/DC spelling mistake. The band appears as AB/CD! If it helps, I am using the Spanish version of VidZone.

Oh! And add some Blue Öyster Cult videos, please. I think they are from Sony BMG so theres no excuse here

Thanks for the reply Ben after explaining it i understand where you are coming from.

But please don’t do what Sony do when it comes to stuff that is Japanese, its like they don’t think anyone from the UK would want it or care about it at all and they are so wrong.

If you check out Youtube a lot of the UK listen to Japanese artist so please don’t follow there train of thought.

No Problem Ben I’ll do that.

What’s the best way for us to get in contact with you and your stuff when it comes to sending you that information?

Thanks a lot for the reply Ben, I can’t believe I’ve been sat there going through each song one by one to add it to my custom playlist!!!! I never realised you could do the full Now Playing list, and I did try looking for a way!

I’ll be sure to give this a go when I get home, thanks again!

can you add the function to use a keyboard or even the online-keypad to type out letters when searching for songs. It just feels so sluggish the way it is now where you have to slowly scroll thru the letters one by one.

Seriously Ben,
SIGN WARNER MUSIC GROUP.

I NEED LINKIN PARK!!
ahem, sorry about that.

But in all seriousness, the people want Linkin Park. Give the people what they want Ben.

VidZone is brill, just needs to be expanded more.

Thanks

Vidzone has a great potential but:

-It needs to load faster when vidzone is launched from the XMB

-the custom settings like the volume of the menu sounds should be saved. I always have to turn them off whenever I launch vidzone

-Widescreen should be available at least as a user option. We have a HD console to play SD content…but cropping / zooming to a widescreen ratio can’t be that difficult.

-On french territory, Celine Dion has only one video available, but 20 are available under the name Céline Dion at the end of the C list…though this name is not searchable, since the accentuated letters are not supported. It would be cool to merge the contents and ignore the accents to make the search results more accurate.

-Volume normalization is certainly important too.

-Many artists are also featured in the vidzone…but no videos are associated to them. That would be something to fix!

Give vz to POLAND!

Pleeeeease design a new way of searching!! Whoever thought that scrolling through letters was a good idea today needs a kick up the a*se!!

I agree we need a new way of searching its painfully annoying to do, just a simple text box would enhance VidZone alot.

1) please allow us to use the wireless keypad to input the name of the band we want to search, the current method in which you press up or down to scroll through all the letters is too slow!

2) About japanese music, can you try to licence Ryuichi Sakamoto? Also what about Mark Knopfler (obviously not japanese)? And more Oasis, Pulp, Blur, etc. I’ll also give you an Italian artist’s name you could try to license: Cesare Cremonini.

Thanks! Vidzone rocks!

I´m left out in the cold

So do we have to set the remote port to 1 every time we want to use it with VidZone? Is this the only solution or are you actually going to fix it properly?

Excuse me, please could you make it that we can hear the music were playing and play a game at the same time, there was an artical some time ago that we would have this but it doesn’t look like it will come out. Just reply and tell me if it’s possible or not. Thank you.

Thank’s again Ben well get right on it.

Hi
can we have list update of music ? always

Thanks

what times it being released

Not being able to use the remote properly is a pain, let me use the play,pause,skip buttons.

Search is aweful, keyboard support please. The database sucks, why does the PS3 HDD churn like mad and lockup the playlist when searching for tracks? With a good indexed database the search should always return near instant.

Improve the video quality. I would ever prefer a little buffering if it got anywhere near close to DVD quality. Let me choose what target bitrate I want.

Why can’t I get 5.1 output? Or at least have a PCM stereo track for all videos!

My receiver supports DTS and Dolby Digital, VidZone only ever outputs Stereo PCM for some reason. You sacrificed overall quality to have 5.1 and I can’t experience that so at least let me experience the best of what I can, true PCM stereo not a downmix of a low bitrate 5.1 track. The ones that are only PCM stereo to begin with sound a thousand times better and Pro Logic 2 makes it surround anyway without using a horribly lossy codec.

VidZone seems to be about a quarter the resolution of a DVD using too low a bitrate and possibly even a poor codec. If its H264 the bitrate must be insanely low. If its not H264, why not? It should at least match YouTube MP4 quality.

what up with the encoding? some of the songs are running so loud they are distorted and others are really quiet.

please answer this . ta

good good…as i said before i was pleasantly suprised at the quality and quantity of dance/trance/electronica tunes available, but i wonder if my comment was heard about getting some Proper hard dance ie Scot Project!? would be Sweeeet if he was added in!!!!! in the mean time, keep up the good work

Fantastic, I was thinking only the other day “When are we going to see the Fresh Prince on Vidzone” and now it’s here! You guys are awesome.

Thanks for the awesome update!

One question though, David Reeves promised VidZone would work in game, will this be happening in the future? Not streaming videos, but just playing music.