If you bought a movie, it lived in your download list forever. You didn't stream it; you downloaded a massive 6GB file. This meant zero buffering at 3 AM, but it also meant waiting 20 minutes to watch The Dark Knight . The "Download to PSP" Flex This was Sony’s secret weapon. VideoStore supported Cross Buy before Cross Buy was a thing .
Clunky. Expensive. And utterly charming in that uniquely 2010s "digital transition" way. Did you ever rent a movie on your PS3? I still have a copy of Tron: Legacy stuck on a dead hard drive somewhere.
But for those of us who were there? It was the first time a game console felt like a serious . The PS3’s Blu-ray drive combined with the VideoStore meant you never needed a cable box again.
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If you bought a movie, it lived in your download list forever. You didn't stream it; you downloaded a massive 6GB file. This meant zero buffering at 3 AM, but it also meant waiting 20 minutes to watch The Dark Knight . The "Download to PSP" Flex This was Sony’s secret weapon. VideoStore supported Cross Buy before Cross Buy was a thing .
Clunky. Expensive. And utterly charming in that uniquely 2010s "digital transition" way. Did you ever rent a movie on your PS3? I still have a copy of Tron: Legacy stuck on a dead hard drive somewhere.
But for those of us who were there? It was the first time a game console felt like a serious . The PS3’s Blu-ray drive combined with the VideoStore meant you never needed a cable box again.