Two James Bond films launch Sony Playstation HD movie service

17-Jul-2008 • Bond News

With the announcement that Microsoft would be sealing an exclusive deal with Netflix to supplement its already considerable list of movies and TV shows, PS3 owners were wondering how Sony would counter this arrangement. That was answered rather surprisingly today, as Sony announced their brand new movie and TV download service.

PS3 and PSP owners would both be able to rent or purchase various products from eight different studios for a relatively low price: TV show rentals would be $1.99 a piece, while movie rentals would range from $2.99 to $5.99 depending on either standard definition or high definition versions. Purchases of movies would range from $9.99 to $14.99 a movie. Even better, PS3 owners could download a movie and transfer it to their PSP to take it on the go - reports IGN.

The service went live last night.

Amongst the crowd of movies from the MGM back-catalogue are two from the James Bond series. Pierce Brosnan's last two outings as 007 were included in the debut line-up of the Playstation service: "The World Is Not Enough" (1999) and "Die Another Day" (2002).

No official word yet on whether the rest of the series will appear or when...