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VidZone: Where Next?

Article: New features planned for Sony's free music video service
Did everybody download the free 30MB app last night from the PlayStation Store? If you did, you'll already know that VidZone is something quite special.

You can browse loads of music videos and build your own playlist. But get your mates in and pass the pad around for some eclectic choices. Not bad for free. Your PlayStation 3 just got better.

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So what's next for the service? "We're working on loads of new features and additions to VidZone," says the dev. You can sign up to the official VidZone Twitter here.

This is a list of upcoming features and ongoing issues that the VidZone team is currently working on.

  • To get the Blu-ray remote working for VidZone: Go to Settings/Accessory Settings/Reassign Controllers - set the remote to controller 1.

  • VidZone has launched in UK, Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Australia. We hope to launch in more territories soon. We'll be rolling VidZone out to more territories over the next 12 months.

  • Uncensored videos won't be released on VidZone as it's a 16+ service.

  • We'll be adding new videos every week and we're in negotiations with all record labels.

  • You can randomise your VidZone Now Playing list by hitting [triangle] on the menu item so see the options.

  • Full screen will come.

  • The quality will depend on your internet connection - there are three different qualities offered. They're not HD, but almost.

What new features would you like to see (apart from a featured CVG playlist)? Let the VidZone team know in the comments section below.

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Posted by mitch91
I would like it to ask you if you want to go to the PS Store when you accidently click on an advert.
Posted by flash501
I've noticed when you try to access certain bands content it says something like 'your search produced no matches (it happened with Muse and Deep Purple so far), is it broken or is there just content coming soon for said bands?, also a quicker way to scroll through search results would be welcome.
Posted by timewarp1
I just press "select" for almost full screen
Posted by jonboy1969
Pretty cool stuff,and it's free!!
Posted by shiwayb
I Want Much Higher Quality Sound and Full HD 1080p Videos which are actually full screen.

Come On, Use some of my 50 Mb....
Posted by Splamone
They really need to focus on speeding the whole thing up. Searching for songs can take a while and some of the searches can take a minute or more before anything appears. Plus it takes forever to start in the first place which surely can be massively improved. Overall though I think the service is really good. I've found some old videos that I haven't seen in ages which is superb. More bands and videos will arrive in time I'm sure.

Please speed it all up!
Posted by BigGSim
I would like to see a random/shuffle button. Just click play without having to select a playlist and get a random selection of videos.

Thats unless i've missed this feature.
Posted by barrett
Search engine has a lot of room for improvement, other than that a pretty good effort all round.
Posted by Eregol
I think they should add Singstar support.

You can buy as a ringtone, music track or video, so why not also give the option to download as a Singstar track?
Posted by RobbieMultiForm
i think for free we can't complain, yes there are teething problems but i'm sure in the not too distant future, things will be running perfectly. stop moaning!!!
Posted by flash501
I don't think anyone is moaning, the article ends by asking us what we would like to see in the future and we're giving our suggestions.
Posted by caodonnell
I was really impressed with this service. Myself and the girlfriend spent a Saturday night playing songs on it. She was well impressed. More music videos and artists would be the main thing I would be looking for Stone Roses, Pink Floyd, Blur.

Sony you kept this one under wraps and its amazing yet you went on and on about Home and its not amazing I think vidzone has huge potential and I can only imagine how good it will be in one or two years time. Well done lads great launch of a great service.
Posted by eboydodd
The search option on VidZone is pretty terrible. If you want to search for a specific artist/track then a search box should open up to show a virtual keyboard or something similar rather than the stupid letter rotating option that is there currently, which doesn't seem to allow you to even add spaces.
Posted by quain-chi
I'd just like more videos, the option to have uncensored songs, a much improved search engine and the ability to use the analogue sticks as a mouse. Also when searching for stuff i cant control the videos, with the shoulder buttons even though the appear underneath the videos.

Overal really cool tho, and it runs flawlessly on cable. which is nice.
Posted by stormyuk
I'd love to see the music video playback choices scrobbled into my last.fm user account, then I could track my music on every device I use. :)
Posted by Domin666
NEEDS guns and roses,iron maiden,classical,acdc,bleeding ell could stay here all day listing music just keep given for nothing and I'm loyal for life.(still am anyway haha)
Posted by nigel666
Ahhh yeah that fooks me right off, must have clicked on the fooking advert about 20 times. Oh and come on now your not telling me the kids these days don't know there swears. Uncensored videos.
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