Sony Network Entertainment COO Shawn Layden revealed that Music Unlimited has 18 million tracks, with over 1 million active users, and is available in 17 countries. Later this month, the service, will increase the baseline streaming codec from 48Kbps to 64Kbps AAC and add a high-fidelity 320Kbps option for all of its songs.
“It will take a while to update the whole catalog to this spec, but new songs will have that option immediately,” Layden noted.
Sony will also launch a browser version of the PlayStation Store in the U.S. allowing users to buy a game on the browser, then have the content automatically download to a PS3 or PS Vita. Layden noted that the PlayStation Store redesign (the first such major change in six years) led to double-digit growth in the U.S. and Europe.
Source: Cnet.com
