VidZone Launches ‘VidZone TV’

Ben, the app keeps freezing on me constantly. The videos still play, but the navigation keeps crashing.

Mine doesn’t even do anything.
I wait almost an hour to get it start, and then it just doesn’t play anything.

I’m sorry, but I find it useless as I can’t do anything with it and keeps making my PS3 crash.

Had to put up with some obnoxious advertisement music video which is 4mins(!) long and locks up vidzone everytime I change the channel or boot up vidzone tv.

How incredibly intrusive I wont be touching vidzone again until this is fixed, disgusting.

Is VidZone still in the process of expanding into more countries? Im waiting for South Africa to be included

Woohoo – this sounds awesome! Can’t wait to check it out 2nite! Nice work guys

Is it me or is Vidzone alot better then MTV now

This is a great service! Never used VidZone before, but I will now!

Although I do think the “advertisement” (which is in fact a 4 minute music video) needs to go. Come on, every 3 songs we get that?

May have to download this agian. update sounds immense.

Few things that could be improved:

- Background wallpapers make reading menu text difficult
- The left side of the search bar is off-white with white text overlaid – difficult to read
- UI and video stutters for a second when changing views, making some other inputs
- I can see why you’re using the letter scrolling method for realtime search results but even if the on-screen system keyboard can’t be made to do the same, it’s still far quicker an input method and should be more immediately accessible

Not for Sweden huh? Go lalalala.

I’m loving the hell out of the new update. Metal Mania TV FTW! Thank you!

OMG you guys actually thought about us aussies and nz’ers down under. Hopefully u can do the same for PlayTV for New Zealand

you guys this is [DELETED] awesome the vidzone tv is brilliant im watching micheal jackson channel right now guys you are brilliant thank you for doing this

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@101

Actually EHRGEIZ-XIII, there were more than 100 000 PS3 sold in Poland before June 2009. It’s one year later and I think we can safely assume that that number is much higher now. Considering how expensive the console is in Poland, that is a pretty good result.

Therefore the question “When Poland?” is justified.

Great update only one problem the info bar is a pain popping on n off .Either leave it on or have it come up at the start and the end of every track would be alot better imoa

Great update but why is Country hidden under Alternative?

Does this mean the lock down issues have been resolved then cos last night I could not navigate the menus without it crashing.
Will retry asap and update!

At first I thought this update was the best thing since sliced bread, but after using it I hate it. A little bit.

Why? First of all almost a fourth of the screen is obstructed for several seconds ever 20 seconds. That just kills the joy of watching a beautiful music video. There’s no need for that huge manual/interface/info/adblock and if it stays there I might as well not use the service at all.

Either show it less often or make it more discrete (preferably both).

I was also a bit disappointed that you can’t skip tracks on Vidzone TV. I get it. It’s supposed to be tv. But man, a skip button would be golden.

I hope you guys fix it, because if you do, you’re on to a winner.

The black text against black background advert problem I submitted yesterday is not properly fixed yet. I see you switched some text color from black to white in the Featured page but everything else is still “black on black”. It’s really painful to navigate and unpleasant to the eyes.

Hi, I like that you are trying to improve the UI (that really needs some fixing, my gf curses everytime she uses it). The New UI element how ever good looking the are dont match the rest of the UI, which should always be be big no no when creating UI’s. One suggestion that would make the vidzone experince more like the rest of the PS3 is to change the x and squar button fuctionallity, it would just make more sense like that, especially if you are using a remote control.

When Poland? Come on Sony, are the issues with ZPAV/ZAIKS so big?

Hi Mr. Ben!

I wanna say that I think that the VidZone service is just amazing, I love it. It’s the best update for the PS3 in a very very long time.

I just would whish that the sound quality was a bit higher, the sound is pretty ok at normal to low sound volume, but when turning the volume up a bit more the flaws in the sound quality become apparent, the sound becomes harsh hard and noisy. I have an excellent hifi setup, and I listen to SACD’s even, so I know it’s not my setup.

Please please please, is there any way of pumping up the quality of the sound being streamed? I doesn’t need to be CD quality but just a bit higher than what it is now. Most people have 5-50 Mbit broadband connections now, so bandwidth shouldn’t be an issue.

Thanks.

Alright, I’ve been happy about the update, but guess what? It crashed my PS3 a few times… What’s wrong with that new VidZone?

Sorry to tell you, but you won’t go anywhere praising the good feedback and ignoring the rest.

You only get mostly bad feedback because…well guess? it’s what’s going on.
Vidzone is a great featured, but it’s causing too many problems.
Ever since it was made available in Portugal, I can’t get into it not even once.
I can never see any videos and it crashes all the time.

I would appreciate at least some decent support, instead of telling me to shut up and deal with it.
If that’s the case, I’ll just deleted from my PS3, as is taking useless space.

@Dekowolf

Ben hasn’t ignored the negative feedback. It can quite clearly be seen he has even replied to some people. ie. the Italian person who complained about hard to read text got a reply.

Have you even emailed customer support?? Because I’d put money on it that they didn’t say “shut up and deal with it” or anything remotely close to it.
Why don’t you actually try emailing them before having a go.

Idiot.

Alright, I decided to try it again (cf my comment at #128)… and once again, it crashed again.

I love VidZone, but the menus are still a little confusing.
Where can I access my custom playlist?

Well VidZone is great anyway, keep up the great work.

Metal TV!!

Great update! How about some danish artists…?

- Dizzy Mizz Lizz
- Carpark North
- Spleen United
- D.A.D.

… You will love them

Great update to Vidzone, i had grown a little tired of it but this has made me want to use it once again, so good going on that one!

Just one little thing i would change, on the TV channels, a skip to next would make it amazing!
I mean love listening to the alternate channels on there, but there are a few tracks i would never listen, to would be nice to be able to skip past them.

Thankies!

Well, now that i’m back on PSN i decided to give the update a go.
It was only when i re-downloaded it and had to update (took about an hour to update catalogue :O) i discovered that all my playlists were gone… I thought they would be stored seperately like a game save? Perhaps that’s a feature that could be implemented in future.

So, i checked out Dave Grohl Tv and was shocked by the double-pixel appearance of the video…
The ‘info’ bar is far too obstructive ( should at least be at bottom of screen instead of foating a few cm above it), and it should fade out 10 secs into video and re-appear 10 secs before the end.(imabho )
I would also like to be able to skip to next video in the TV channels.

Ok, time to search for one of my favourites and a track i actually discovered thru vidzone previously, Bob Dylans Cold Irons Bound… found it…playing it… WTH… who smeared vaseline all over it…?

I’m not going to delete it straight away, gonna give it another little chance although it’s a daunting task refilling my playlists again… Please make them seperate from the app.

Ignore my last comment, I’ve found the playlists.

Metal Mania TV!

Why do you have Arcade Fire listed as Artist with no videos to watch?