Los Angeles – Sony Pictures Home
Entertainment said Monday that it will add digital copies of movies to key Blu-ray
Disc releases, which will be playable on Sony’s PlayStation Portable. The
digital copies will not be playable on PCs or other digital devices, the studio
said.
The first Blu-ray
Disc titles containing the digital copies are slated to appear Nov. 10 and
include “Godzilla” and “The Ugly Truth.”
Consumers will be
able to transfer the digital copy of the movie to the PSP via the Blu-ray drive
on a PlayStation3 console.
Including the
digital copy directly on the Blu-ray Disc eliminates the need for Sony to
package a separate DVD carrying the PSP digital copy, as it has done in the
past.
Sony said the new
release of “The Ugly Truth” will also include a separate DVD containing a
digital copy of the movie that will be playable on a PC.
In addition to
making a recent price cut on the PlayStation3 gaming console, Sony has been
seeking ways of enhancing the value of the gaming system to compete more
aggressively with Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Xbox 360, while at the same
time expanding the capabilities of the Blu-ray Disc format.
