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Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan will launch a service for watching movies on mobile phones, while Warner Entertainment Japan plans to double the titles available through an existing service by year-end.
Warner On Demand members-only video service currently has a lineup of 150-200 titles. Customers can choose to buy or rent the content, and new titles are made available at the same time that DVDs are released. Warner On Demand offers the same service for PCs and mobile phones.
Sony Pictures will provide content through QTV Video, a mobile phone video service operated by Frontmedia. It is to offer new releases such as the Michael Jackson film "This Is It" in addition to old hits like "The Da Vinci Code," "Spider-Man" and "Stand by Me."
The broad lineup is to include U.S. television series as well. Users will get two days of unlimited viewing by paying 420 yen per title, in addition to call charges.
© Japan Corporate News Network
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movieguy
Because Sony and the rest of the market in Japan was too slow at adapting to digital entertainment and focused all of their energy on controlling digital entertainment and the stupid MD they lost the battle to Apple. Now they're FINALLY joining the movie/TV area for digital downloads more than two years after Apple. It's too late Sony. It's more than obvious you're blocking movie and TV downloads on iTunes in the Japanese market so you can force people to buy your late to the market phones and digital players. No one is going to switch to Sony. Had you looked after your customers instead of trying to control digital entertainment, Sony would have been the player to beat... 8 YEARS AGO...
xpompey8
Why would anyone want to spend 90 minutes watching a movie on their mobile phone?
randomenigma
Is your battery going to hold out?