Hello,
We are MUBI.
Who? What?
Ok, lets make this simple… Do you know who Kubrick is? What about Antonioni? David Lynch? Ring any bells?
It’s ok, don’t bother if you don’t…
But if you are still reading you are going to like this a lot.
Well, we are MUBI and we are basically transforming your PS3 console into your own online cinema. (You can still play games and all that, don’t worry!) We couldn’t resist the idea of everyone having their own exquisite film library—And that’s it in a nutshell.
But lets get this straight, we are not just an online cinema and we are not just some tech and film geeks in California—well, some of us are, yes—but we are 300,000 friends talking, discovering, and sharing films with one another every day. In fact, every 2 minutes there’s someone joining us. Yes. 2 minutes. Sorry to get a bit geeky (we warned you!), but that’s 700 people joining each day. Not bad… but joining what?
The truth is, we can’t even start explaining. But let’s try this: At the moment, some of us are at the Cannes Film Festival announcing a major collaboration with SCEE for PS3. So, soon, you will find a new application on your console, which will let you stream the best of international cinema from the comforts of your couch. This is not a simple virtual videostore; we emphasize quality over quantity. You’ll find undistributed festival gems ripe for your discovery, your favorite recent independent and art-house releases. Names like the Coen brothers, Godard, Kitano, Almodóvar, Tarantino, and Van Sant are some we’ll bring home to you.
Palm d’Or winners and simply films we think should have won awards. But that’s not all. We’ll bring you exclusive online premieres, collaborations with international film festivals, and retrospectives of some of the best cinema the world has ever seen.
And as we said, we love talking and sharing wonderful cinema too. Which makes MUBI like a small coffee shop, a place where you can gather and chat about alternative endings, directors’ cuts, or whatever those frogs in Magnolia meant.
You can follow members and interact with them: This is Martin Scorsese’s profile for instance (he happens to be a member!). Anyway, you get the point. We’ve spent some time tying together an online cinema with a simple, engaging social network to help film lovers spread around the world connect over the movies they love best. And that is that. Welcome to MUBI.
Do you know what Tati means? What about Jonze?
Enjoy,
The Mubi Team
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 12:01 pm by Philip99
Wait, hang on, we can watch ad-sponsored films for FREE? Hey, that actually does sound good. But then, why not just introduce this good idea to the Video Store in the first place for this genre of film?
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 12:04 pm by Philip99
Oh, so 2046, a Wong Kar-Wai movie, is only available in Australia and New Zeland. Well forget it then.
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 1:01 pm by timestoby
wow,it does sound great,but wot about uks broadband providers,how will this come down with them,wot if its the evening and we all know the people without fiber optic or cable our broadband is slow in the evenings,will they allows us to still stream at any point of the day without any breakups artifacts lag etc? shouldnt think so,good for fiber and cable users that have that whole 20mb or 50mb
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 1:54 pm by UntidyDubs
Please, please, please make this available in Hungary. I’d kill for a service like this! Being a UK citizen but living in Budapest means I miss out on all the cool stuff.
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 6:26 pm by Azulcity
Will it be available in Spain in Original voice as well? Unlike the Video store that only has films in Spanish and not VOS?
Im English and live in spain, I can speak and watch films in Spanish, i just dont want to. I want it in the original version as do many Spanish people too, my wife being one of them.
A choice between local and original language would make Sony very popular in many european countries accross many applications. It cant be so difficult to do either.
Looks very interseting by the way.
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 7:04 pm by Lirion
B3yond awsome!
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 9:29 pm by wiktorclunk
when poland
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Posted on 19 May, 2010 at 10:40 pm by technofranki
At last, videostreaming service for Norway (and the other Nordic countries). This will be great. Can’t wait for the launch.
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Posted on 20 May, 2010 at 12:38 am by BlaCkPeZuS
Is there any that countries that don’t have the PS Store will get this?
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Posted on 20 May, 2010 at 6:07 pm by Sizzon
Yay! Nordic Countries at launch ^^, at least a video streaming service for Sweden
thank you SCEE and MUBI!, really looking forward to this. I heard that the swedish film (låt den rätte komma in) should be there as a launch film) hehe.
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 12:43 am by AmethystSword
:O missing scenes! now I am even more excited about this!
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 8:02 pm by Oista
Cheaper than apple tv?
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 9:36 pm by Hades0609
cooooooool is there just certain types of movies
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Posted on 21 May, 2010 at 9:39 pm by Tostic
J. H. Christ in a chicken basket! It launches in Switzerland? I can’t believe it.
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Posted on 23 May, 2010 at 12:28 pm by Kevf_NL
I really hope you guys can find the time to answer my questions:
first of all, let me congratulate you with this great initiative. But I really think you guys should have given it more thought:
resolution: sd? The ps3 is advertised as THE machine for HD materials and the movies are only in SD? I’ve got an hd tv years ago and even upgraded to a 50″ full hd.
sound: stereo? No dts or dd? Even my old dvd’s have dts or dolby digital soundtracks.
Regarding sound and resolution: in The Netherlands it’s legal to download (not upload) movies. Why should I pay for an inferior product when I can just download a better quality of the movie for free. I want to support the industry, but then the quality should be at least on par with what you can find on the internet.
Movies available: I live in The Netherland and I can’t watch most of the movies. Yes I know David Lynch but NO I can’t watch ANY of his movies with Mubi. That kinda misses the point don’t you think?
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Posted on 23 May, 2010 at 12:58 pm by wiktorclunk
When POLAND???????????????????
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Posted on 23 May, 2010 at 2:07 pm by Kevf_NL
ok tried to watch a few others
- Citizen Kane
- A space odyssey
- the godfather
- a clockwork orange
- dr Strangelove
- pulp fiction
- seven samurai
- vertigo
NONE where available to watch? So we have the resolution and sound issues I’ve discussed before, but even these legendary movies are not watchable??!?
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Posted on 23 May, 2010 at 2:31 pm by Legion_Dragon
Will this take over from the PS Stores Video service?? at prices like you guys offer ,,, I hope so lol
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Posted on 25 May, 2010 at 9:23 pm by Clice
Hello Efe Cakarel
I hope that you know that the Faroe Islands is a part of the danish kingdom and the nordic countries, we just use an other IP. So please dont filter out our IP.
Kind regards
Stefan
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Posted on 26 May, 2010 at 2:12 am by Blackxino
SWEET!
may I ask, please answer me. What is all these festival movie thing? I browse around movie websites that covers stories on international movies, they keep talking about movie festival. I ask them and no one answers:/
Anyway, I’m up for this!
I don’t know what the pricing will be, but I hope it has a rent and buy function. So with this feature, it should sort of decrease the use of piracy.
Make this happen, Ong Bak 3 was just released! I wanna watch it!
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Posted on 29 May, 2010 at 10:36 am by da-wolfdude
Just joined the site, so much films that i need to see and so litle time…
And almost all of them aren’t avilibel… (man i can’t spell XD)
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