Wed, Sep 01, 2010 | 17:09 BST

Sony announces PSN music service, Qriocity, in Berlin

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Sony’s announced a brand new cloud-streaming music service for PlayStation Network, known as Qriocity.

The announcement was made at the IFA conference in Berlin today. It was speculated earlier this morning.

The service can be managed through one account, and can be streamed via BRAVIA TVs, VAIO computers, Blu-ray players and more.

More information on how the service works and when it will launch will follow shortly, according to a post on the EU PS Blog.

“We are excited to offer our customers high quality, cloud-based entertainment experiences across many of Sony’s network-enabled devices,” said SCEI boss Kaz Hirai.

“Services ‘powered by Qriocity’ will revolutionize the way that users play, listen, watch, share, communicate, learn, discover and create their digital entertainment content.”

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#1

Redh3lix
01/09/10, 5:12 pm

I didn’t think Qriocity was “new”, and had been announced a long time ago (E3 I think) as in development. In fact you always see the Qriocity logo from the PSN login (on official website)?

#2

Erthazus
01/09/10, 5:13 pm

Sony’s baby steps for the cloud gaming started today.

@1 Schwing! http://www.qriocity.com/

#3

Razor
01/09/10, 5:14 pm

Am I reading this right? Stream music to a TV? What about support for, oh I don’t know, Walkman?

#4

Crysis
01/09/10, 5:15 pm

heard that name before, quite a while ago, music service was one of their theories as to what the heck it would be, qriocity is a horrible name though =\ wonder if this will be free to PS+ users containing an alternative subscription of some sort for non PS+ members, as i have stated before, it’s services what people want, content is great but there’s numerous reasons as to why it’s not great for a subscription deal, for one, unless it’s new content, there’s the chance you may already own some of the content on offer, & unless there’s some great offer the month you have a look at it, nothing there may interest the individual.

#5

Erthazus
01/09/10, 5:15 pm

and it’s called not Qriocity, it’s called “Music Unlimited” and it’s powered by Qriocity.

#6

AHA-Lambda
01/09/10, 5:20 pm

qriocity isnt this service

qriocity has been around for a while and is for movies
this music one is called music unlimited

#7

LOLshock94
01/09/10, 5:20 pm

sony cant stop copyin can they

#8

Crysis
01/09/10, 5:21 pm

Speaking of walkman, why do sony make accesories for the iPod? that’s always confused me..
I’d rather a PSP over any mp3/4 player anyways, just wish they dumped flash cards & used SD cards, cheaper & more efficient, but Sony makes money out of the flash cards so i can understand why they kept it.

#9

Crysis
01/09/10, 5:24 pm

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/press-release/sne_dis_sony-announces-video-on-demand-powered-by-qriocity-tm-extending-into-europe-1145138.html more than JUST music, qriocity was formerly named Sony Online Services,
“Sony will deliver a variety of digital entertainment
content and services that are “powered by Qriocity”, including video, music, game applications, and e-books over time”

#10

Zarckan
01/09/10, 9:57 pm

How old is this!? I’ll tell you how old Pre-E3 bitches!

#11

perk1n
01/09/10, 11:37 pm

berlin, baby!

#12

frostquake
02/09/10, 1:08 am

Can I trust this??? and will it be around longer then Sony Connect???

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