Posted on 29 April by Alex Jakubczyk – Content Manager, VidZone

VIDZONE UPDATE: VidZone Makes A Splash!

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Unless you have been living under a stone for the past week, you should have realised we have released a brand new VidZone patch!

As a quick recap, this includes improved search function, in-store game purchasing, a snazzy new main menu carousel and 100s of brand new TV channels including Artist TV, Genre TV, Label TV and Year TV! Is your favourite artist there? Are you missing a specific Genre? Or do you have any great playlists you remember us featuring that we can create a channel for?

You may have also noticed a new channel magically appearing earlier this week – Sub Focus TV! We’ve had one of the first plays of brand new Sub Focus video ‘Splash’ featuring Coco who is tipped for big things this year and is Sting’s talented daughter – if you’ve not checked it out yet, then we suggest you do!

Enough of that… on to this week’s update…

FEATURED

VidZone Recommends

Check out our list of favourite TV Channels this week, hand-picked by the wonderful VidZone pixies inside your PlayStation 3…

Music From Films TV

Featuring hotter than the sun (be careful not to look directly at them) tracks from Iron Man 2 by AC/DC – ‘Highway to Hell’ and ‘Shoot To Thrill’

Video Games Music TV

Once you’ve had enough playing your favourite video games, why not chill out and listen to the music from them instead? Including Sahara Hotnights – Hot Night Crash from Burnout 3 and Pearl Jam – Even Flow from Guitar Hero III.

Underground Acts TV

Our favourite bands that have inexplicably never become bigger than sliced bread – including Fenech-Soler, Shy Child and Tila Tequila.

Korn & Friends TV

A band that are ALMOST bigger than sliced bread – Korn! Featuring videos from Korn, Mudvayne and Adema.

Featured Category

A chance to feature our favourite TV channel category of the week! This week we want to spread the joy of music from various different countries – we have some amazing videos from the likes of German rockers Silbermond, the beautifully French Christophe Willem and Shannon Noll from Australia!

World Music

Featuring Brit Pop TV, French Pop TV, German Rock TV and Aussie Classics TV

Featured Channels

Hot New Videos

This week we are featuring videos so hot you shouldn’t touch them without a pair of oven gloves, including new videos from Sia ‘Clap Your Hands’ and Ciara ft. Ludacris ‘Ride’.

Artist Of The Week

Faithless

They’ve been out of the limelight for a while, but their new single ‘Not Going Home’ reminds us exactly why we loved them in the first place!

Pocket TV (GB only)

Another fine week of Pocket TV madness, featuring Rox live performance, Diana Vickers and Bashy getting grilled by Mr Matt Edmondson!

OTHER STUFF

Check out our ever-changing video of the day when you start up VidZone – a combination of our favourite hot new videos, exclusive interviews and classic tracks!

We have LOTS of other exciting announcements coming over the next few days, so keep your eyes on our blog, twitter and facebook for further details! And remember, if you have any problems or requests you can contact us as always in the following ways;

Twitter – http://twitter.com/vidzone

Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/vidzoneofficial

Website – http://www.vidzone.tv

Video Requests – playstation@vidzone.tv

Customer Support – ps-problems@vidzone.tv

You may also try contacting us psychically through the power of your mind…however I can’t guarantee you will get a response as our psychic team are usually pretty busy trying to predict future smashes in the world of Music.

By the way… as many of you VidZonians may have guessed this isn’t Ben, he is still sunning himself up on holiday, so it’s Lex to the rescue! He’ll be back for our next blog update, and don’t worry he says he misses you all a lot – in fact I think it’s the only reason he’s coming back to work!

Enjoy!

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Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 4:44 pm by Demadred

I absolutely LOVE the new Vidzone TV, especially Dave Grohl and friends, absolutely fantastic you guys, keep up the great work

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 4:47 pm by Ben Creasey

Hey VidZonians,

Unfortunatley due to techincal issues we won’t be able to publish this update until Friday morning. Don’t worry though, you can still continue to explore the new VidZone as usual!

Thanks for your understanding!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 4:49 pm by sully1311

YES YES!! CIARA NEW VIDEOS!! SIMPLE, SEXY AND BRILLIANT!!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 4:51 pm by XisTG

90′s playlist!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 4:56 pm by sully1311

YES YES!! CIARA NEW VIDEO!! SIMPLE AND BRILLIANT!!

any update on the emi & warner deals Lex?

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:03 pm by GuttermouthSIN

You guys continue to outdo yourselves with each and every update. Thank you!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:04 pm by s0602277

Any chance of some Muse? Add them and possibly Radiohead, and the service will be a ’10′ rather than ’9.5′!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:06 pm by SpiderMike_X

Disturbed playlist.

Hell, how about some Disturbed TRACKS so I can make my own. Forget all the generipop you keep peddling. Give ppl what they are asking for and leave the rest till after.

I’ve been asking the same thing, each week, since launch and getting the same lame excuse. Meanwhile on Rockband and Singstar requests for the same artists were met with better results. Weird, that….

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 3:23 pm by Alex Jakubczyk

Hey everyone!!

Apologies for the delay this week, but our new update is live!! Run to your Playstations now! Faster!

Thanks!
Lex

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 3:31 pm by Alex Jakubczyk

Hey SpiderMike_X,

We are working on getting ALL requested band on VidZone, I promise! However, as we don’t have the same force behind us as many other games it will inevitably take longer.

If you would like to email requests please send to playstation@vidzone.tv

Thanks!
Lex

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:09 pm by X201

Ben, is there an update of the menu system and front end in the works.

I thought it was just me who had trouble with it, until I mentioned it over on Eurogamer, and loads of people agreed with me and started saying that they found it a nightmare and that it was the one thing that they thought let the service down.

The average answer was that they loved the service but hated the menu system.

It might just be that we’re old doderers over there, but I think its something you should look into.

Here’s a link http://tinyurl.com/3yvfmm2

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:11 pm by Talk0

WHEEEN POLAND?????????????? -_-’

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:36 pm by reakt

Hi Alex/Ben, I really like the update with the new VidZone TV feature. However, I feel that the original viewing mechanism – now called “On Demand” has suffered as a result. For instance, in On Demand, where are the featured playlists? OK, I can see them in VidZone TV but using that interface it’s not possible for me to skip tracks (unless I’ve missed something). I hope you’ll consider reintroducing the featured playlists in On Demand.

Once again, overall the changes are welcome (thank you!) but with such big changes like this there are usually teething problems and I personally feel that a minor tweak is needed.

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 3:07 pm by Alex Jakubczyk

Hey reakt,

Similar to ‘real’ Music TV, you are unable to skip or fastforward tracks – however if you go to your playlists you will still be able to rewind and skip as usual. We will continue to feature playlists in the On Demand section, but obviously we want to show off our TV Channels too!

Thanks!
Lex

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 5:44 pm by DNAtlantic

It’s a good update!

Can i recommend one band that’s in my head now… See if you guys could get Nickelback in Vidzone! They’ve got some awesome songs!

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 6:00 pm by wiktorclunk

When POLAND????????????????????????

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 6:01 pm by KoSzNik

@10 (Talk0) just forget about it. You still hope they will release it in Poland? yeah, right;)

Posted on 29 April, 2010 at 6:01 pm by andycass

Sadly still clunky software makes it too annoying to use which is a pity because it could be a decent bit of kit.

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 11:47 am by Zaphloo

Do you have any plans to increase the video quality?

I appriciate this is a free service and all and that bandwidth cost money but on todays 40″+ sharp and unforgiveable LCD’s the image quality could do with a bit of improvement…

Some videos seem vorse than others too. I guess this has to do with worse source material which combined with high compression creates a cumulative effect?

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 11:57 am by sully1311

What time is the update?

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 11:59 am by MairusuPawa

Please bring back OtherOS past 3.15 so I can update my system and enjoy this new content.

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 12:10 pm by sully1311

@MairusuPawa – Don;’t tell VidZone, they have nothing to do with it.

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 3:32 pm by Alex Jakubczyk

Hey everyone!

Apologies for the delay this week, but our new update is live!! Run to your Playstations now! Faster I tell you! Faster!

Thanks!
Lex

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 3:37 pm by sully1311

Ciara – Ride hasn’t been uploaded when you said it was gonna?!!

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 4:05 pm by Alex Jakubczyk

Hey Sully1311,

Unfortunatley Ciara – Ride was delivered with all rights apart from UK – we will be getting these early next week though so it should be with you by Thursday (only 6 days…)

Thanks
Lex

Posted on 30 April, 2010 at 4:03 pm by giantkiller01

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Not that I care…