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Sony shows off PlayStation Vue cloud TV with local channels in three major markets

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 3 min

Sony is showing off its PlayStation Vue cloud-based TV service. It’s aimed at competing with cable TV, largely by providing both your favorite entertainment channels as well as local TV programming.

Vue is a cloud TV service available on the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 game consoles — an iPad version is in the works as well — and Sony hopes it’ll find a following with the 40 million PlayStation fans in the U.S. who also watch a lot of TV. It’s available as a free download, and it gives you up to 85 channels. It rolls out first in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.