Will Sony Be Able to Change the Digital Landscape?

The deal would make some of Viacom's cable channels available as part of a pay-TV service for owners of Sony products such as the upcoming PlayStation 4. Not only would Viacom's lineup strengthen the service against cable companies and Netflix , it could also spell trouble for Microsoft's competing Xbox One console.

[black0o]

interesting!

[UltimateMaster]

Let's face it, people would prefer getting just the internet than having it with a cable bundle.
Someday, we might only get the internet since you can all your shows there anyway.

[GalacticEmpire]

This along with all the exclusive content from Sony Pictures, Sony Music and Sony Television will give Playstation a huge advantage in digital media content distribution.

[Animal Mutha 76]

Looks like a spoke too soon.....still submitting.

OT great feature for Sony. I makes sense for them to leverage their massive media channels.

[Pillsbury1]

They are planning something very interesting with digital and it all begins with with gaikai and ps vita tv. They plan on bringing a lot of streaming features to multiple devices along with different services.

[ConwayGritty]

The thing that annoys me here is that ps4 fan boys will eat this up and when xbox one said they were doing this it was a big uproar and called it dishonorable because it was now a entrainment console. Shame on you.

And I await disagrees..

[GrandpaSnake]

yeah but sony studios and all their digital media content is high quality. what their doing with 4k is really innovative too. microsoft had to buy,invest and aquire tv stuff, sony just had to make it available this gen.

[webeblazing]

PlayStation has always been a entertainment console since ps1 it would b the biggest fail in business if they didnt . ms own some sports teams but Sony owns music n movie studios n electronic s what makes sense

Not really sure what grandpasnake talking about tho. High media content you could say that about a lot of companies

[Joe913]

I don't see why it annoys you first of all the uproar was everybody Xbox fan as well as all the media. People did not like the fact that MS came out of the gate talking about TV channels and features. But after E3 and MS focused on games then all that died down. Your comment don't make sense anyway if they were Sony fanboys why be in a uproar about a console they are not going to get in the first place. If MS focused on TV and lost gamers to PS4 thats good for crazy Sony fanboys.

[rainslacker]

The big uproar was because MS wasn't giving the choice for people to decide if they really wanted that digital landscape. Given the current digital landscape, I don't blame them.

If Sony changes it, which is a hypothetical posited by this article, then at that time people can decide if it's worth an uproar or not. Until then, it's only speculation, as opposed to the very real scenario that MS was proposing.

[ConwayGritty]

I'm by no means a fanboy I'm getting ps4 and xbone.
Microsoft announced it most likely just to beat Sony to the punch.
They probably knew Sony had these futures and wanted to get it known they did too.

All I'm saying is everyone rags on xbox cause it can snap hbo while gaming and it's stupid because why would I buy a console to watch TV on?!?!?

Well guess what Sony is doing the same this minus multitasking.

And so what it's magically better because Sony owns media and music branchs. You guys would be all over ms if this situation was reversed