MUBI On PS3 – THIS POST MAY CONTAIN GOOD NEWS

This is great and all, but we still need video rental. But this is indeed a great step forward!

And thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you soooo much for making sure it’s available in (almost) ALL countries! THANK YOU!

If we buy individual films at 3.50 does this mean we can watch them as many times for that month or is it a once off and we have to pay again if we want to watch it again.
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Dont understand people complaining about the prices?

All you can watch for €12.99 / £9.99 a month is nothing! I recon the people saying its to much are children and not working for a living…becaus its pocket money realy…

And if you dont want to subscribe you can rent a movie from your own livingroom for €3.59 / £2.99!! Thats NOTHING….

So thanks for brining this service to the Playstation and the pricing is just about right so dont mind these silly posts.

Will there be free films as well?
And who is the girl from The_Netherlands?

i have a few questions.
the individual price, is that for buying or renting? and are the movies strictly streamed or downloadable?

and will the service on ps3 use the psn wallet or a seperate billing system?

@FallingStickman
no to jedziemy…

When Poland???

“Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ”

Hi, why is ‘AE’ (United Arab Emirates) included in the countries tag when it will not be initially available here? Can you please clarify this. I’m already a PlayStation Plus subscriber and will also subscribe to this if it’ll be available here.

pricing is right??

in the Netherlands the latest 5 BR movies for 10 euro
or 1 SD movie online in the PSstore for 3.5 euro…
which you can get from the budgetbox for pennies

thank god for hidemyip & my virtual creditcard.
this gives me the opportunity to view movies for smaller prices
in the US-store,canada-store
thanx for the Charlies-angels-free movie btw

In Norway there is 24 pages with movies we can watch on Mubi, compared to 749 pages in the US.

WHAT THE?? I went trugh the movies we can rent here in Norway with Mubi and it’s realy realy poor.

If this is what we get then I realy hope you are gonna work HARD and FAST to get more content. Becaus that was just hillarius…

Great to see so many launch countries, including Norway. I’ll definitley check this out.

Nice, but really when is the videostore coming to the Netherlands……never if you ask me, Sony doesn’t keep his promises. The least they can do is keep us informed and not in the loop.

sounds good, but i have to agree with matty—erm. blockbusters would be nice also. still, its better than nothing

hey hey

while i wouldnt ever consider subbing to this at an extortionate rate of £9.99 . . . . .

are the films streamed ?
are they HD ?
£2.99 . . ouch !
how “independent” are the filmmakers ?
will we see more mainstream movies or are you exclusivly “independent”

nikita in the original french with english subs – pretty please
angel.a – pretty pretty pretty please, sugar, cherries
pans labryinth – awesome film

what are the actual mechanics of the service ? (sorry sony but yours sucks)

Will we have free movies with PLUS?

as a lovefilm subscriber i get free content to stream to my internet tv, do you know if this service or any other ie skyplayer will be coming to psn? any answers would be greatly appreciated from a lifelong playstation fan

Hopefully it’s not only old films that’s on this service and I may consider renting some films

I think this is overpriced. One OLD movie for 3,59€?! That’s pretty much. At mine local movierenter, it costs me 0,70€ for and old movie. Movies from 1 month old, I pay 14 movies for 10€!

Sorry, too much for me, I’ll keep going to my local movierenter, where I even have the possibilty to copy the movie.

Question:

If you’ve rent a movie, for how long can u watch the movie (by example, it’s late, i fall asleep, can i wacht the movie further the next day)?

Grtz

Snoopyfreak

absolute load of rubbish.

after looking at the mubi website theres absolutely no current, or even older AAA films.
just a collection of straight to tv rubbish that you might find on amazon dvd store for 1pence second hand.

if you want to see some really really old black & white B movies in taiwanese then its ideal, if youre looking for the likes of predator, alien, captain corellis mandolin, big trouble in little china, transformers, pandorum etc etc then you have got no chance.

Great news I’ll be there day one as my lovefilm subscription is just about to run out. I think a lot of people seem to be missing the point age is not a sign of quality just because a film was out six months ago doesn’t mean it could stand up to something like The Bicycle Thieves.

What I would advise is a way to help people not familiar with art films, for instance “Like Pulp Fiction? You should check out Amores Peres”. A series of personal recommendations by the Mubi team would also help unearth those hidden gems you’ve never heard of.

This looks cool but I’d much prefer to see a lovefilm app as I’m only really into mainstream movies.

I really don’t see the point of this since we already have a video section in the playstation store.

That’s great news I love independent/film festival movies, though I doubt it will be released in Ireland. Like it happened with the PSN video store… any news on that btw? What’s the progress and status of the movie service for Ireland?

Honestly to the people complaining about it not having mainstream movies… what the hell is wrong with you??? Clearly this site caters for a different type of movie fan.

I for one think it’s fantastic as I am a great fan of world cinema which can be very hard to get hold of in your local video store.

I will be subscribing from day 1 although I do we will see a larger list soon like the USA has.

I love “foreign” and classical film, so this would be perfect! 361 films in Netherlands is a good start, and the price is right for unlimited viewing.

But there must be three things before I subscribe, and I have a feeling I reflect the requirements of a good share of movie aficionados:

1. English subtitles and original audio. Efe’s response “original language with either local or English subtitles” isn’t clear on whether they are both available for all films. I’m fine as long as at least English is available for all non-English films.
2. At least 720p for movies which are available in HD, or I won’t subscribe. This is 2010 and there’s no excuse to stream something in SD if HD version is available. And none of this bait-and-switch of streaming 720p content with DVD bitrates. “Movies are high quality” is vague uninformative marketing speak and doesn’t even start answering the question of what quality, resolution and especially bitrate we’re talking about.
3. Support for surround sound and preferably DTS and other high bitrate codecs. Many films will only have stereo, but several on the list have surround sound.

been dying for this service to launch, and £9.99 a month sounds like a good price point BUT you guys really are going to have to boulster the amount of films available before i subscribe (i know Efe you’ve said that there will be more by launch, but i’ve been checking the UK listings now almost weekly on the site and they don’t appear to be changing at all. this has me worried as i am really really looking forwards to a dedicated service for classic and indie films. dont let me down!)

also, if any Sony suits are reading this – sort out as streaming rental subscription service for the PSN Video store, it makes NO sense to me at all that you guys haven’t got this. DO IT. i’ll subscribe to that without a second thought, regardless of price!

hi so beenign a PSN+ member will be get a discount or be able to watch some many movies a month for free as EU PSN+ needs more Extras sony i love the idea its just not feeling the love at mo But this is good i use the Website all ready

Ong Bak 3?

Looks okay but this is a skip for me. Not ecstatically excited about this.

This will be my second purchase in the PSN store XD. I like it a lot that I can view movies on both of my PS3 and only have to pay 1 monthly subscription. Very nice MUBI

How nice, once again lots of questions are answered and everyone skips over the genuine question about accessibility for disabled users (post 14). Why does the world hate me for something I was born with? I attempted to find the answer from your site but no where are subtitles even mentioned, so looks like once again there is a service I want but will be unable to use. I guess I should get used to it.

Thanks, Efe. That sounds good enough for now at this price point so I’ll subscribe at launch to check out especially the picture quality. I would definitely expect higher quality in the future on the audio side.

This sounds epic! Can’t wait to give it a whirl.

I find it quite funny how many people are missing the point of MUBI. It’s not a blockbuster rental service, it’s a provider of independent and international film, stuff that can sometimes be quite hard to find and a god send to people who like classics from their own country. And you can do all this without getting off the sofa!

They have also made the point that for each country there is a different distributor so I think they’re doing a pretty good job releasing this in 18 different countries from day one. I look forward to seeing what is available at launch.