Sony can’t get no rest. Night and day the hardware giant has been thinking on ways to make its online service, PSN a better place to be than other services available.
A few weeks back, the company filed a trademark for some sort of service it’d be offering dubbed “Qriocity”. Many thought that it was a new PSP service similar to Quore, however it seems Sony’s latest effort is something completely new, video after the jump.
According to our affiliate PSLS, Qriocity is an upcoming video-on-demand service offered through multiple Sony products such as Bravia TVs and the upcoming Blu-ray player the BDP-S370. After testing your internet connection, the service gives you a bandwidth optimized version of the movie you want to stream.
The talk at CES is that the service will come loaded with countless content and numerous features at launch, with February being the planned month when the service becomes available to the public.
The service also uses the PSN ID system to sign in, with each Blu-ray player or HDTV allowing multiple accounts for different levels of access to different age groups.
Also, as you might already know, Sony’s planning to offer a new premium PSN package where customers pay a fee for products and services that regular PSN members won’t have access to. It does not include the ability to play online so gamers can rest easy, however, there’s no word yet on whether Qriosity will be for premium users, or regular PSN folks. We’ll know soon enough.
