Sony Details Its Own Media Streaming Services On PS4

Posted on May 6, 2014 at 12:31 pm

Earlier this month, Sony announced that the PS4 would launch with a few entertainment apps, like Netflix and Hulu Plus. Those are all well and good, but Sony would like it in the event you used its own entertainment apps at the PS4 besides.

Sony announced today that its Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited services could be at the PS4 at launch. That’s not all, however, because the apps can have received some beefy updates from their PS3 predecessors. The largest updates appear to be coming to the Video Unlimited, but Music Unlimited fans are becoming numerous new features to boot.

So, what’s new in Video Unlimited at the PS4? Here’s all you are able to stay up for:

  • Faster start times and quicker navigation
  • Access to over 200,000 movies and television episodes
  • Instant streaming of latest purchases that accounts for bandwidth to play down buffering
  • Cloud storage of all new purchases, eliminating harddrive clutter
  • Past purchases will soon be available through cloud storage
  • Social features that show what your folks have watched and rated

    • As for Music Unlimited, listed below are the recent features within the PS4 app:

  • Completely redesigned user interface
  • Enhanced discoverability that will help you navigate our vast library of twenty-two million tracks
  • High quality audio streaming for each song
  • System-level integration that permits you to play songs out of your playlists while playing games, accessible during the mini-player that looks after pressing the PS Button

    • As you’ve got heard, the PS4 won’t support MP3s or DLNA at launch. This basically forces users to make use of Sony’s Music Unlimited for music at the system, and that’s left numerous people pretty unhappy. In a contemporary interview with Giant Bomb, Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida said the verdict to take away MP3 support wasn’t resulting from some nefarious scheme to make you utilize Music Unlimited. Instead, he says the focal point at launch “has been always on game features” and that multimedia support fell by the wayside accordingly. With that being said, Yoshida says the engineering teams are already discussing how you can implement MP3 and DLNA support.

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