Sony may be the first to offer a price break on the newest generation of video game systems, but the are behind the eight ball on the download services. According to CNET News, Sony may be set to announce a movie and TV download service for the Playstation 3 at E3 Week this year. Microsoft has had movie and TV downloads for sometime now, and Apple entered the ring earlier this year with the introduction of their Apple TV. Both of the current contenders have their drawbacks though.

Microsof’ts interface and video quality are incredible, but I have experienced some technical bugs in the system. Microsoft still owes me a copy of Spongebob Squarepants Wigstuck that errors out even after support calls to XBox support where they have supposedly corrected the problem. Apple TV has a great interface, but the video quality for downloaded content is still pretty low resolution.  With any luck, Sony will have been paying attention to what the blogs, reviews and users have been saying about their competition and will put out a full featured, user friendly system.