There were a bunch of announcements from Sony recently at E3.

One of the most impressive is a movie and TV show download service, however we are hearing reports that it won't be for everyone.

Sites like Edge Online and the Register are reporting that movie downloads will not be available in Europe until sometime in 2009. When? according to the Register "individual launch dates for specific European countries will be confirmed later this year."

In addition, Gizmodo has just reported that movies will be region locked

That means if you want to watch the latest Japanese horror movie, you may not be able to because it may only be available in Japan.

This is different from supposed region locked games where in the past all you needed to play non-North American games was  a non-North American account to play games from that region.

The good news?  If you live in the US you can start downloading movies now!