Vidzone Launches For The Ps3

It’s happening now, the crazed in the VidZone…

Passing my son Merlin‘s bedroom yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to hear the strains of David Bowie’s Slow Burn as opposed to the usual rat-a-tat-tat of Call Of Duty and the like.

However, when I asked why he wasn’t playing his favourite shoot ’em up or even Kanye West‘s latest he explained that he was checking out the just launched VidZone for the PlayStation 3.

He had been looking at the Bowie section for me and had found high quality videos of two of my very favourite and most emotionally charged Bowie videos of recent years, Slow Burn and Strangers When We Meet. Great to see Slow Burn in such good quality on an HD screen.

VidZone, which went live in Europe yesterday, is Sony’s free, on-demand video service for the PS3. The service launched with over 10,000 music videos which can be streamed directly to TV, complete with surround sound.

Users need to download the VidZone application from the PlayStation Store, and are then able to watch content, rewind and fast forward videos, and create a library and custom playlists.

Anyway, it wasn’t long before Merlin was back watching the song at the top of the Best Videos Of All Time list: Kanye West’s Stronger.

Of course, my comments of “You’d be better off listening to the original…Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” were met with the same enthusiasm as the suggestion from an uncle back in 1973 that I’d be better off listening to The Yardbirds‘ I’m A Man rather than The Jean Genie. Really, what do these old gits know?