Sony beefed up Video and Music Unlimited so that you’ll use them instead of Amazon, Vudu

NEW YORK CITY — Think about how you watch movies or listen to music on your devices. Like many others, you probably use Spotify, Rdio, Netflix, and Amazon. When Sony launches PlayStation 4 on Friday, it wants you to start using its Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited services instead of its competitors. To convince you to make that switch, Sony worked to make its media apps faster and smarter on the next-gen console than its older apps and the competition.

You can, of course, still get other video services on PS4. At launch, Sony will have 11 media apps, including Amazon, NetFlix, and Vudu. With competition from other services so readily available to every user, we checked in with Sony to see how it plans to draw PlayStation owners to its Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited services.