VidZone Update

Hey great, keep up the good work, i love vidzone, one of the best things about the PS3.

Hoping for 16:9 fullscreen soon though.

Good to see you updating a lot but what about other countries?greece plz

Thanks, that’s a pretty awesome update. Love using VidZone, always check it every week for the new content

As for new artists – Paramore and Muse

Looks real good
Is Franz Ferdinand up on it?

To bad i can’t use it, Norway,

Just another quick question, are there any plans to get all the 4 Major Record companies on board. So we can get stuff by Roadrunner records etc ??

I absolutely love VidZone, it’s a great way to while away a few hours and dig through the collection. The range of stuff is pretty impressive, but there seems to be a very, very eclectic mix of stuff available – tons of stuff from mainland Europe I’ve never heard of, but no Beastie Boys (well, one track, but that’s not enough!)

Would love to see this continue to get the regular updates it’s been getting so far. Seems to be a weird discrepancy over the editing of language on videos as well – most of the Hip Hop has had the swearing and drug/gun references bleeped or edited out, but also some hasn’t. Is there some special secret criteria applied to it, such as the stuff that people are unlikely to listen to doesn’t get edited, and the popular sutff does? Or is it just a case of buying a bunch of tracks and hoping for the best?

Either way, thanks so much for this application – it’s the first killer 3rd party app on the PS3. MORE OF THIS SORT OF THING! (Like a new, better web browser, for a start.)

great update, thanks a lot!

Great to see another Michael Jackson clip.

Would be great for some more current new release vids

Thanks for the update. I love Vidzone.

Hi,

Could you please tell us when you plan to bring out vidzone to Belgium and all the other countries ?

Hi guys I really love vidzone think it’s a great service but it needs some more metal, be great to have some classics from Megadeth, Slipknot and the like also I’ve noticed theres a catagory for Five Finger Death Punch but when I click theres no videos, the same with Rammstein are they coming or are those not supposed to be there?

PLEASE REPLY

Still cant watch 30-35 dance videos in Spain, hazard icon is shown, among these Eric Prydz, i emailed the list to you guys a few weeks back, any reasons or ideas of why and will it be fixed??

Also get some pigeon detectives up

Good work so far, loving it as a Sunday morning comedown when we roll in after a long night out! I’ll get a picture sometime of everyone gathered around arguing over which video to watch next

Hi Ben.

Not sure if this has been requested before, but is there any chance that Vidzone can be updated so that playlists can be managed online?
It’d be much quicker to create/update playlists from a PC and sync them to VZ.

Fingers crossed…

Rating 1/5 for ultimate justice.

Tim dog FTW!!

If you guys and girls can get “Blackmoon – How many Mc’s” on there i will marry you all!!!

Still waiting for some more “The Knife” videos as opposed to the one.
Also some videos from The Band of Horses, Smoking Popes, Why?, Morrissey and The Smiths.

That’d make me happy. :]

Hey Ben,

First of all, LOVE the VidZone service. I’ve pointed a PS3 owning friend of mine towards it who wasn’t previously aware and he loves it too.

Here’s my one gripe though and I know others share it with me. The search feature. I find it terrible to use, it’s slow it’s clunky and just annoying all round. I think it’d be much much better if you allowed us to type in the artist/video name with either the default on screen keyboard or with a regular keyboard/PS3 chat pad accessory.

I know it’s make my experience a whole lot better.

really like this service a good selection of music accross the board but i do have one little request some slipknot tracks would make my day lol or stone sour!… already got the apocalyptica im not jesus on my favs (love this song so much)

is there any plans to make an option to use the unclean version of the songs?? prolly not but you have to ask right?? lol

thanx again

Great service you got going here guys, at least to those few countries who can actually use it at this point. You close to rolling out VidZone to any more countries? ETA’s are fine

WERE IS VIDZONE BELGIUM PLEASE? :s

I hope you guys are hard at working bringing VidZone over to other eu territories. Can’t wait.

Please answer this question sony.
When is Vidzone coming to Scandinavia ?? (sweden,norway,denmark)
I live in sweden and i really want vidzone to come to playstation store over here..

Just want to reply again ad say thanks Ben for replying to my comment. Great to know that you guys have already taken this on board and are working on it!

@12

There’s loads of Pigeon Detectives on there…?

I really like how vidzone is shaping up, however i do feel there is a problem that requires addressing soon.

The issue is browsing the available songs, currently the system only allows you to browse by searching every-time on all the songs/artists within a chosen topic and then having to refine the search further.

This is a huge problem as it is relying on me knowing what is in your music catalogue (and must also be placing quite a strain on your servers come to think of it).

Inputting search terms is not the quickest and easiest thing to do and can quickly result in frustration when there are no songs returned in a search or mistyping an entry.

It would be a better approach to allow the user to browse all music by artist or song allowing them to add to their playlists at their convenience, keep the search, but it shouldn’t be the primary method of finding music. search is for when you know what you are looking for, but if i don’t fancy the recommended playlists, and want to try and choose my own it should be easy enough to do so.

keep up the good work

We’re waiting a month (i think) for VidZone in the BENELUX! Were is it?

On attend depuis 1 mois (je crois) pour VidZone dans le BENELUX! Il est où?

We zijn all en mand an het warten voor en vidzone in de Benelux! Waar is hij?

Hi Ben. I am also loving Vidzone and it is great to just chill back and listen to some music while I am in my room. There are two things that bug me, these are:

* The search feature is rather slow and annoying to use – We need it so we can enter the letters in ourselves like with a on screeen keyboard or PS3 Keypad. (I know you’ve already responded to this further up and thanks)

* Also, why can’t we use our Sony Remote Controls instead of using our Dualshocks 3 or Sixaxis controls? I much prefer to use my Remote than use my Control as it doesn’t drain my controller battery as fast, and it easier to operate Vidzone with a Remote in my eyes. Are there any plans to include the use of the Sony Remote Control while using Vidzone?

Thanks, Bankzy108

P.S Keep up the good work guys!

Why are you avoiding questions regarding Vidzone in other countries? What’s the point of having a service if only 5% of europeans can use it? Better yet, why have a EU blog, when things like this isn’t relevant to 95% of people.

Great service, only problem is feeling like you’ve been abducted by aliens as you can lose a few hours quite easily.

Please can we have back catalogues of bands like The Ramones, REM, The Pixies etc Pleeassseeeeeeee

Will there ever be a Vidzone for other countries in the EU or are we forgotten?

Straight answer please.

@ budmuhnquai: Freedom of speech and respect for the artists isn’t important for you but I am shocked when I don’t get the original, as the artist meant it to be, version. Who does Sony think he is to butcher art?

Anyway, Sony is not able to get that service to The Netherlands so I’ll have to get my uncensored clips from other sources.

Any news on which record labels you are applying songs for. I did request artist ‘Danity Kane’ who are part of the Bad Boy records firm and so far no response

Also still no response in entering a * in the search box, it’s impossible to search by artist name *Nsync as the search doesn’t have the character to select hence the real immediate need to have the on screen ps keyboard. I’m really not sure why this is taking so long to implement?!

@Ben: It is only partially true that we can use the PS3 remote. Cause even with the trick of making it controller 1 we still can’t use it using the remote buttons in a meaningful way, instead we have to use the awkward mappings from the controller onto the remote.

So thanks for a great service, love it, but actual remote support would be fantastic

Ohhh….I knew that really, i was just testing to see if you did!

Thanks for the reply Ben I didn’t know that. Normally the Remote control gets assigned as controller 7 and I never thought of making it controller 1. Thanks for the heads up and the reply to my comment.

Thanks, Bankzy108

Guerrier – ” Thanks for the update. I love Vidzone. ”
Ben Creasey – ” Thanks! Don’t forget to introduce VidZone to your friends. ”

dimososir – ” Good to see you updating a lot but what about other countries? ”
Ben Creasey – no answer

imajinetion :
” Why are you avoiding questions regarding Vidzone in other countries? What’s the point of having a service if only 5% of europeans can use it? Better yet, why have a EU blog, when things like this isn’t relevant to 95% of people. ” – exactly .

Post number 37 says it all…

I’d like to see a Best of Chemical Brothers playlist someday, the same goes to BT, Ferry Corsten (aka system F and Gouryella), Darren Tate (aka DT8, Jurgen Vries, Citizen Caned and Angelic).

By the way these are not what you described as “odd requests”, the artists I’ve mentioned are some of the best dance/electronic producers the world has to offer.

are you able to tell us what new artists/tracks have been added this week

@37,@38: Ben did reply to this issue on comment #29.

Hi there just a quick question.

I’m struggling to download songs onto my phone. I have entered my phone number and region and accept T&C but the options to download the different versions of the songs are grayed out.

Any help??

Great service btw

Hi

I’ve got only one request:

- Sheena Ringo (Japanese Singer)

Hoping I’ll be able to watch it myself on VidZone in the near future..

“We hope you have been enjoying all the new playlists over the last two weeks.”

No.. bacause I live in Denmark which is one of the MANY European countries not allowed to use VidZone – THANK YOU!

Why are some Artists “empty” (in Germany) like Amon Tobin or Client… and gimme some Depeche Mode ^^ .

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Because the euro blog has failed to mention what must of been asked on here a million times,

The trophy patches for The Last Man and Blast Factor are OUT NOW in europe, blast factor one acutally came out last week.

TROPHYS ALERT
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Would love to get a real answer on when and where vidzone will be introduced to other parts of our territory.

So please Ben stop responding to this question with the standard marketing bs answer.

When is Vidzone released in Belgium.
Can’t wait to test this myself.

Answer plz.

@ imajinetion, actually VidZone covers approx 75% of the SCEE region in terms of userbase – if you look at sales data for each region you will see that around 75% of PS3 owners in the SCEE region reside in the handful of Countries VidZone has launched in.

I’m sure it’s disappointing you don’t have it in your Country, in the same way I’m disappointed we don’t have a Movie download service yet, but you can’t blame VidZone for launching first in the Countries that account for three-quarters of the SCEE population!

There may be a lot of ‘low-priority’ SCEE serviced Countries left without the service, but when you think of the foundation work required to implement these services for a relatively small increase in userbase there is a diminishing return on investment from a business stand point.

I’m sure it will come to all PSN enabled Countries eventually, but asking the same question in the update each week won’t make it happen any quicker – focus your energies on selling PS3′s to your friends instead, maybe if the userbase of these Countries becomes more significant SCEE/VidZone will have more incentive to expedite the development of features in those Countries…