http://www.maximumpc.com/tags/apple_tv used for category lists, takes arguments en http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/video_downloads_arrive_ps3_amid_reports_a_limited_launch <div style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.maximumpc.com/files/u46168/psn_videos_0.jpg" alt="Video Downloading Service is available on PSN (PS3)" title="PSN Video Downloading Service" width="350" height="233" /></div> <p>Xbox Live is a major money-spinner for Microsoft's gaming division, one which both Sony and Nintendo envy. Sony is currently trying to replicate Live's success with its very own PSN service and the wide array of new additions to PSN might help Sony in its endeavor. One of the new additions happens to be the <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/playstation-video-download-service-is-live/">Playstation video downloading service, which is now live</a>.<br /><br />Users can rent or purchase SD or HD content from various leading TV and movie stables including Fox, MGM, Warner and Disney etc. TV videos begin at $1.99, while movie rentals and purchases begin at $2.99 and $9.99 respectively.<br /><br />Several reports frequenting the internet seem to suggest that the <a href="http://www.n4g.com/ps3/News-170718.aspx">service is not available in all regions/countries</a>. But there is no word on this issue from Sony. Limited launch or not, Wedbush Morgan’s videogame analyst Michael Pachter believes that availability of videos on PSN can lure potential Apple TV owners towards the PS3. </p><p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/video_downloads_arrive_ps3_amid_reports_a_limited_launch">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/video_downloads_arrive_ps3_amid_reports_a_limited_launch#comments News apple tv Consoles consumer electronics content downloads E3 gaming movies ps3 psn sony tv video Videogames Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:51:23 -0500 Pulkit Chandna 2801 at http://www.maximumpc.com http://www.maximumpc.com/article/in_the_lab_will_smith_gets_burned_by_the_apple_tv <!--paging_filter--><p> As part of my testing for this month’s cover feature, I spent a few<br /> quality days watching movies from the iTunes Store on my PC and in my<br /> living room. By necessity, I had to integrate a newly updated Apple TV<br /> into my entertainment center, which is a fairly common closed cabinet<br /> with a few air vents in the back. All of my other electronics<br /> devices—my receiver, my TiVo, my Xbox 360—live happily in this<br /> environment (although I do open the cabinet door when I fire up the<br /> 360). </p> <p> Click Read More for more.  </p> <p><a href="http://www.maximumpc.com/article/in_the_lab_will_smith_gets_burned_by_the_apple_tv">read more</a></p> http://www.maximumpc.com/article/in_the_lab_will_smith_gets_burned_by_the_apple_tv#comments May 2008 From the Magazine Features apple tv consumer electronics features in the lab media center In the Lab 2008 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:06 -0500 Will Smith 2119 at http://www.maximumpc.com