Sony’s 4K Ultra Blu-ray-quality streaming service comes to P…

Sony Bravia Core, the video streaming service that offers movie purchases and rentals in high bandwidth up to 80 Mbps, has launched as its own app on Sony PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 consoles, where it is now called Sony Pictures Core. It is said. It can be downloaded for free from the media section on PS5 and on the PS Store for PS4.

If you’ve never heard of the Sony Bravia Core, as it was previously known, it’s probably because it was only available to owners of select Sony Bravia TVs and Sony Xperia devices. Sony Bravia Core will gradually be rebranded to Sony Pictures Core on those devices over the coming year. The new name is a better reflection of one of the service’s big differentiators from its streaming competitors: Subscribers can purchase select Sony Pictures movies before they are made available on any other platform during a special, early access window. The film will be the first in early access in select markets such as the UK, France, Germany and Japan Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (It’s already available in the US).

The other big differentiator, and the reason videophiles will have to celebrate its launch on Sony’s console, is that Sony Pictures Core offers your purchases and rentals at a higher data rate than you can get from Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or any of those. Other Streaming Services.

Netflix’s 4K HDR titles only require a 25Mbps connection to support their maximum level of quality, while the Sony Picture Core can more than triple that bandwidth at up to 80Mbps. For comparison, the smaller capacity 50 GB 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc uses either 72 or 92 Mbps data rates. Kaleidescape offers even higher data rates, but requires dedicated hardware and can’t run on consoles like the PS4 or PS5.

Sony Pictures Core, on the other hand, has a much more limited selection of titles available. Currently, it has a library of only 2,000 movies, but it includes a huge number of releases Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse, Spider-Man: No Way Home, unresolved, equalizer, don’t feel bad, bullet trainAnd Ghostbusters: Afterlifeamong others.

Typically, all of these titles are only offered for purchase or rental, however, PlayStation Plus Premium/Deluxe members also get access to a catalog of up to 100 movies that can be streamed ad-free and on-demand . Examples of these titles include looper, Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV, NandanAnd resident evil damn,