InteractiveTV Today reports that Sony will let owners of their Bravia brand HDTVs and BD players with networking capability rent their studios’ Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs a month before its January DVD release date. The catch (besides having to own certain Sony TVs)? The price — $24.95. Hiro Kawano, SVP of Sony Electronics’ Home Division business, said, “Given our breadth of content and strength in networked products, Sony is the first company to utilize its Internet-enabled TV’s and other networked devices to stream feature films directly to consumers’ televisions prior to availability on DVD or Blu-ray”.
Get Meatballs early — for a price