For those of you have missed the good news (although I doubt PS Blog users would have!) it was announced at Gamescom that VidZone will be rolling out to more countries at the end of the year. These will include:
Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg
That’s ELEVEN more countries! I really hope this keeps the majority of you happy. I know it’s not the whole of Europe yet… But we are getting there!
As for this week’s update, we have the usual top quality updates to the Homepage and the Recommended Playlists as well as more new videos (Less than 100 this week as we have been really busy getting all the other things ready for you, but what we have added is of hyper top quality)
As always a little taster follows… Let’s go!
Homepage Features
Artists of the Week
UK & IE
Basshunter – Love or hate this Swedish eurodance titan, you can’t say he isn’t very good at making a tune that will get stuck in your brain for days. Watch his new video “Every Morning” and all his other videos here… Or don’t. (I also recommend you Google “translated basshunter boten anna” for the original lyrics for “Now You’re Gone” which proves Mr Hunter is a bit of a geek)
Rest of Europe and Australia
Kelly Clarkson – Love her or hate her… Sorry I have used that one already… and I’m sure you all love her anyway. Kelly’s new video “Already Gone” will be up to watch along with all her other videos, which is nice, if you are a Kelly Clarkson fan.
One for the Ladies
It seems we have angered a few of our male PS3 users since VidZone launched. Loads of guys have not been able to get on their PS3 to play COD or Rock Band because their wives or girlfriends (WAGs for short of course) are hogging the console to use VidZone. Well sorry boys, we sort of like the fact that we are getting the girls using the service so we have a selection of videos just for them. Enjoy ladies!
One for the Boys
Gotta keep everyone happy right? We can’t give the girls a homepage feature without giving the boys one too. We are too nice to you all!
Go! Explore – Driving Tunes
OK, so you can’t get VidZone in your car unless Xzibit (Or Westwood) has got hold of your car and given it a PlayStation hooked up to a million screens and speakers and a WiFi connection. But this can at least give you food for thought about what you would want to be listening if you were in a big American convertible, driving down route 66 with the wind in your hair, or driving to Tesco’s in your mum’s Fiat Panda.
Funny Videos
Wanna laugh? No? What’s wrong with you? Of course you do! Well if you choose that you do, then check these out. Please note, VidZone cannot be held responsible for any laughter based injuries including cracked ribs, pulled cheek muscles or split sides And more… I don’t have the space to write about them all!
Recommended Playlists
New Videos
As I said earlier, only a few videos (Less than 100) videos for you this week but they represent the cream of the crop of new and classic old videos including Basshunter and Miike Snow
Music Pioneers
The visionaries, the first, the ones that broke the mould. From Nirvana to MJ, Johnny Cash to Mary J. Blige all these artists have been the ones that have shaped the sound of the music you listen to today.
Just Good Tunes
… Pretty self explanatory don’t you think… I won’t insult your intelligence by explaining. Videos from Bon Jovi, Cameo, Beck, Cypress Hill and more.
Friday Night Party
It’s Friday people, it’s time to party… and we know you like to party, so here you have the perfect killer music party weapon. Videos from RUN-DMC, No Doubt, Armand Van Helden and more.









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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:06 pm by WilliamBirkin
finally scandinavia. Thank you!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:07 pm by sully1311
21 videos lol? cant wait for the 16:9 update keep it up!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:13 pm by Brahrp
SONY….You bring me to madness!!
when Polish!!! in 2011?
ehhhh
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:14 pm by oGGe45
Woho! Many many thanks!
I can’t wait to try it out, I’ve heard a lot of good things about the service!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:18 pm by makingdamage
Great work! Not long until I also will be able to use this great looking service. Hopefully that gets me through the dark winter here up north
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:19 pm by marcindpol
@ Brahrp no worries we’ll get this before Euro finals in 2012.. lol
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:22 pm by Laze
GREAT!!! Can’t wait to get this in Denmark!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:24 pm by gnysek
When POLAND ??
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:25 pm by FacanferPSN2
Finally comes to Portugal, Im the first portuguese commenting! ;-]
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:27 pm by Apnomis
Thanks for the update Ben, I’m guessing you must be pretty happy with how things have turned out for VidZone so far – not only do PS3 owners love the new service, but SCEE are using it as one of the centre pieces of their £82 Million ad campaign!!!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:34 pm by arabek
I’m very disappointed. A 10 times smaller country (Luxembourg) received VidZone access, but Poland was omitted. Thanks very much SONY.
As (recently) usual, you disappoint me very much!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:34 pm by Samarotu
can somebody else confirm issues, with vidzone? i log in, but all videos remain black… i can´t play any video… got this issues 2weeks for now…
kinda odd
Posted on 28 August, 2009 at 1:27 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Samarotu
Can you email ps-problems@vidzone.tv with as many details as you can. This is a known problem that we are working on fixing
Thanks!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:39 pm by kofin_
I can’t wait to get this in Czech(if we get it) but I would like to have same content in store as US
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:39 pm by almighty-slayer
Nice one Ben. Not a big update but i realise it’s been a busy week, and besides, you can’t havee great updates everyy week (well, one would have thought so anyway).
I’ll have a look later on tonight (as i uually do on Thursdays…And most other days!)
Posted on 28 August, 2009 at 1:26 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Almighty-Slayer
We try our best to have great updates every week and just becuase we have only a few new videos the rest fo the update looks good to me.
I hope you agree
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:42 pm by almighty-slayer
@13, i sometimes have a similar issue. I start the playlist, and get, say halfway through; and then it just stops at the end of a random track and refuses to play anymore. Then tracks come up with a timer of 00:00/00:00, and nothing plays.
Quitting and going back in normally solves the issue
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:44 pm by Pinhead_x
Now we’re talking! All we need is more METAL now
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 5:55 pm by BasNederland
This is good news for us Dutchmans! We wished less discriminating, and it came!
Posted on 28 August, 2009 at 1:28 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi BasNederland
Proves wishful thinking does work sometimes. Hope you like the service!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:00 pm by Roneberg
Oh yeah… you do know that portugal is part of ue
vidzone is very wellcome here in portugal
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:02 pm by Philip99
Where’s mah Superbus! Why does it appear in lists but no videos are available for them?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:03 pm by ArturNOW
Still no VidZone in Poland. Thanks!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:04 pm by Andrefpvs
Thank you so much guys for bringing VidZone to Portugal! I know I’ll use it a lot! Thanks again!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:06 pm by ArturNOW
VidZone in 2012 for Poland then Video Store NEVER. Why there’s SCEP anyways?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:12 pm by Viper7
Oh nice, Finland too guess ill check it when it gets here. I doubt there will be much from the bands I tend to listen but hopefully I can make atleast some new findings or get lucky with few more popular ones.
Posted on 28 August, 2009 at 1:31 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Viper7
We aim to have as much local catalogue as we can so if you want to email your suggestions to ps-contact@vidzone.tv and if you know what label they are on even better.
Thanks
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:12 pm by Nostromo74
“Rest of Europe and Australia”
Malta is part of ‘rest of Europe’ – great! How do I access vidzone?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:12 pm by LicensedDealer
The actual software is kinda slow for me. I hope you guys can try and optimise it a bit more. Other than that I use it quite a bit actually.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:20 pm by taurus82
If Basshunter would learn to leave out the lyrics, he or they might actually get some respect from the Ferry Corsten/Armin van Buuren/Tiësto fans.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:21 pm by Demonized
Hey Ben, solid update again for VidZone,quick question though.
Any word on a “fix” for the search feature? I remember a month or 2 ago you replied to a comment of mine asking if you guys were going to change the search feature to allow us to simply type, as opposed to using the tumbler like method that is currently used. Any word on whether that is still planned to be changed? I appreciate it hasn’t happened yet because of all the work going into the updates and the work involved in bringing the service to more countries in Europe.
Hope you see this and if you do, thanks in advance for the response.
Posted on 28 August, 2009 at 1:38 pm by Ben Creasey
Hi Demonized
Yes, we will be releasing an update sometime in September that will include 16:9 support, improved search functionality and remote keyborad support.
Can’t give you a definate date yet but soon!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:22 pm by samich2007
great news!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:23 pm by Valthyr
YES:D NEtherlands!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:27 pm by xKillerMonkeyx
another great great update, would have liked basshunter as artist of the week, why oh why did i move to live in spain.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:34 pm by Raider197
The bottom ad when I look at my Playlists in just a white block, any ideas?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:37 pm by enormhi
The Netherlands!! JEEEEEEEEEEEEEJ TOOT TOOT!!
End of the year as in December or as in Q4?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:38 pm by enormhi
Ow what about “Major Lazer” Coming to vidzone?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:38 pm by EnGhedi
“VidZone will be rolling out to more countries at the end of the year”
Awesome, in December 31st?
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:43 pm by hivonzooo
Rest of Europe… Poland is a part of Europe and UE…
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:46 pm by StoneCold313
Outstanding!
I was sure that Finland wouldn’t see VidZone until 2030…
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:52 pm by Sury_G
yeah that’s all good,but what about Czech “country ass” Republic?5 years,maybe??
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:52 pm by Nostromo74
Malta doesnt have a Playstation Store, let alone VidZone! I am very disappointed.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 6:53 pm by jakster123x
another great update guys keep it up! I don’t want to sound ungrateful or anything ‘cos your doing a great job but do you know when the search funtion will be changed thanks!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 7:29 pm by EmpireNO
Awesome, thank you Sony.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 7:30 pm by Darkos87
Vidzone is effing amazing.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 7:36 pm by Demadred
People will always complain that “SCEE SHOULD DO EXCACTLY THE SAME AS SCEA COS THEN EVERYONE WILL BE HAPPEH AND YOU SUXXOORRZ” but the truth is that you guys are doing the best job of all the SCE territories, and i am really happy to be a part of all of this
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 7:41 pm by Mok_ojin
Please special request
Please allow us to change the background colour back to blue. The red is nice but would be nice to be able to have the blue to.
Thank you
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 7:52 pm by T-Grave
I live in Belgium! Can’t wait, I’ve been waiting for this service quite a while
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:05 pm by dsadrian
Andorra is in Europe !!!!!!!!!!!!! Dont forget it
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:09 pm by Nostromo74
They don’t care. Seriously man.
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:16 pm by Nostromo74
By the way, Luxembourg is tiny, it has a store and its getting VidZone too!
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:28 pm by Echnaton
Finally! Can’t wait to get it on my PS3s …
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:29 pm by dimososir
no Greece no party
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Posted on 27 August, 2009 at 8:34 pm by Nostromo74
At least you guys have a PS Store.
Want to laugh?
Go to http://mt.playstation.com
Thats the Official Playstation website for Malta! It is still advertising Lair!!! It has not been updated since 2007. That’s how we are threated.
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