Sony PlayStation Store Will End Movie, TV Show Purchases and Rentals
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Sony’s PlayStation group is throwing in the towel on its digital movie and TV transactional VOD business.
As of Aug. 31, 2021, the PlayStation Store will stop offering movie and TV show purchases and rentals. Sony said it is exiting the transactional VOD business after more than a decade because it sees more PlayStation users adopting free and subscription streaming-video services.
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“At SIE, we strive to provide the best entertainment experience for PlayStation fans, and that means evolving our offerings as customer needs change,” Vanessa Lee, Sony Interactive Entertainment’s head of video business, wrote in a blog post Tuesday. “We’ve seen tremendous growth from PlayStation fans using subscription-based and ad-based entertainment streaming services on our consoles.”
February 26, 2021
The Allahabad High Court, on Thursday, rejected an anticipatory bail plea filed by Amazon Prime Video’s India content head, Aparna Purohit, noting that the web series Tandav included scenes that intentionally used names of Hindu deities to convey an “insidious message”. While pronouncing its order, the court held that insulting Hindu deities has now become a trend, which has been passed down by movies.
“Western filmmakers have refrained from ridiculing Lord Jesus or the Prophet but hindi filmmakers have done this repeatedly and still doing this most unabashedly with the Hindu Gods and Godesses. Things are worsening as is evident from the fact that an obscure stand-up comedian, Munawar Faruqui, from Gujarat made comments on Hindu God and Godesses in a new year show at Indore and gained undue publicity on being arrested in a case.” Allahabad High Court
Update (February 26):
This summary has been updated to represent the final Rules that were notified on Thursday evening.
All OTT streaming services will now be required by law to accept complaints from viewers, and on top of the self-regulation system they created to avoid government regulation, they will now be subject to two layers of oversight. The first layer (after individual streaming services’ own grievance officers) will be a self-regulatory organisation (likely the Internet and Mobile Association of India’s Digital Entertainment Committee, or the recently announced IAMAI Secretariat). This layer is required to be headed by a retired high court or Supreme Court justice.
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On Tuesday, Spotify announced plans to bring higher quality music to its streaming service. The move to Spotify
Hi-Fi means CD-quality, lossless audio is just around the corner on the world s largest streamer. No doubt, Apple Music could take a steep fall because of this news. And yet, I don t expect the iPhone maker to let Spotify take a high-res victory lap at least not a long one. The reason? AirPods, baby.
What is high-resolution audio?
Spotify s transition to Hi-Fi isn t expected to start for a few months. When it does, it will only come to Premium subscribers in select markets. Between now and then, there ll be a lot of talk about high-resolution audio and what it means. Without getting stuck too far into the weeds, it s important to note that high-resolution audio typically refers to music files with a higher sampling frequency and/or bit depth than CD or 16-bit/44.1kHz.
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