I have HBO already =P

In HD too and on demand thanks to le comcast

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This is where the whole download thing fails though imo. It's a great idea, but the growth of digital downloads is only going to be stunted by these pricing schemes.

Also, I looked at the comments and the second one is by a programmer at Media Molecule:

"hmm, wait eleven months and then pay $2.99 for it or download it instantly for free from BitTorrent, I wonder which option the public is more likely to go for."

made me lol.

Technically there is no other way to buy individual episodes.  So the pricing has no benchmark. 3$ isn't so bad. Say you have 24 episodes. thats about 20 hours for 72$. A movie ticket is 10 dollars minimum for 2 hours. 20 hours of movie would cost you at least $100 at a theater. Movie VD's cost 15-20$ for 2 hours. Buying dvds of 20 hours of film would cost 200$. 72$ for 24 Episodes isn't so bad.

Yeah they fail because it's not available in Canada.

You mean you can actually get these sites to work? I usually give up after a while and just watch the shows through my computer because whatever version of Flash the PS3 is sporting just fails to render the generic video players that these sites use.

This deal sucks but it's not on Sony it's moreso on HBO. I mean they always over charge when it comes to their content. I respect Stars for putting their movies and shows on Netflix and there isn't any lag at all. I remember I was able to watch Spartucus every Friday morning when the actual episode didn't air until much later that night.

To the above. Website like silverscreen or that one that gives several TV streamlink all work.
I've watched countless tarintino movies, cartonons and normal shows.

Sony updated the flash a long time ago.

I agree what a joke. $3/episode for shittier quality vs. month's worth of HBO for $10/month in superior quality. Or you can pay $9/month for Netflix and stream all the shows (from previous seasons. Though PSN only has previous seasons as well!) or rent the physical discs. Come on now.

And if you aren't personally against piracy and know how to do it, you can just download your episodes for free. At the sacrifice of quality of course (though the 720p MKVs you can pirate are probably just as good as the 720p downloads on PSN/XBL. Both are inferior to the 720p of HBO broadcasts and Blu-Ray though since the digital downloads are in compressed lossy formats. Personally after all these years, I still like to download Xvid quality because it's a fast download and while the quality is sub-SD (624x352 generally), I'm so used to it that it doesn't matter. I prefer the convenience of XviD over the quality of HD MKV. While 720p MKVs can download fast via torrent, I don't trust torrents because your IP can get flagged and HBO might contact your ISP and let them know that you are pirating their stuff. I personally download from file hosting sites. Though downloading episodes from most of these file hosting sites takes a long, long time (due to wait times and bandwidth limits).

EDIT: Wait it's $2.99/episode for SD, not HD?! Fuck me (as they would say in the Sopranos). So you are paying $3/episode basically for quality that is inferior to what you can pirate for free? lol.

" So the pricing has no benchmark. 3$ isn't so bad. Say you have 24 episodes. thats about 20 hours for 72$. A movie ticket is 10 dollars minimum for 2 hours. 20 hours of movie would cost you at least $100 at a theater. Movie VD's cost 15-20$ for 2 hours. Buying dvds of 20 hours of film would cost 200$. 72$ for 24 Episodes isn't so bad."

Movie tickets aren't 10$ minimum, at least not in my state.
Waiting 11months to spend 2.99 for a SD quality episode you could've downloaded for free in hd quality less than 24hr after the episode airs seems ridiculous to me.
What about video games? 60$ for a 10hr game

cry all you want, but this was and is a huge move by Sony. Yes the box sets are cheaper, but not by a whole lot.
The fact that you can get HBO through PSN and not XBL is a big deal.

Sony should come out with a whole season price for shows though, which would be slightly discounted over single episode prices.

If people dont care when they watch their shows, and dont want to hassle with physical media, the PS3 enables these people to cancel their costly hbo subscription and download the specific shows they want, when they want.

Also Breaking Bad seasons 1-3 are on the PSN now (in sd and HD) under AMC channel. The PSN video store has surpassed the zune marketplace at this point.... hasn't it?