Streaming Music Video Service Vidzone Comes to PlayStation

[dfergie]

Gamers can access VidZone on their PS3 system by installing the free VidZone app. The app is supported by both major industry labels and more than 7,500 independent labels, and lets users browse a catalog of music videos.

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[Zookster]

I was pretty excited when I heard about this, so I tried it last night. I mainly searched for individual artists from 80s and 90s that I hadn't heard in a while, but after watching a couple of videos, I started having to wait for ads (30 second TV commercials) to run. And it seemed to get worse as I went along, to the point I couldn't watch a single video without having to watch 4 or 5 commercials first--in one case the same commercial! At that point, I quit and probably won't use this service again. The selection was also pretty hit and miss. While they had tons of Smashing Pumpkins and Radiohead, not a single Bush video and a couple of others who had popular videos at one time.

In sum, VidZone = FAIL.