UMD Movies for PSP Now on Endangered Species List
Posted in Tech by Dan at 1:02 pm
This post was published 3 years 11 months 17 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Sony, will you ever learn? Propriety formats never work. You insist on memory sticks, UMD’s, ATRAC, but NOBODY wants it. Now the UMD is on the endangered species list.
Only one year after Sony launched the PlayStation Portable (PSP) in the U.S., rumors are brewing that production of feature-length movies based on the PSP’s proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD) format will come to a screeching halt.
Since the launch of the PSP, sales of UMD movies have gone from underwhelming to almost invisible, prompting experts to predict that the end is near.
kinda obvious it was gonna happen. if i ever got a psp, i wouldnt bother with getting movies on umd
I have a PSP and only UMD movie. It does seem a little ridiculous to sell a movie for $25-$30 that you can only watch on the PSP as opposed to a DVD for $15-$20 which can be watch on a PC/Laptop, TV w/DVD player, portable DVD player, in-dash DVD player, Xbox, etc.
The only reason I own one UMD video is because our local Toys-R-Us went out of business and I picked it up for $11. Other than that, I’ll stick to DVDs.
Jeff
They need to come out with a UMD disc burner then it will live alot longer and it will better to take your movies on the road.
SoNy said they were never going to bring out the UMD burner because people will be burning DAAAAA. I have the PSP put never bough on of those stupid UMD movies. I don’t even buy much games. WHY would when i have the Internet browers on the PSP. Verytime i turn on my PSP i want to surf the net.
maybe if they werent twice as much as dvds with no video out they wouldnt have this problem.
oh yeah, and fyi, nintendo has a proprietary method of storing their games.
All I can say is…down with sony.
here in the Uk, UMDs are about £10…or appear to be after i check HMV, whereas new dvds are around £12.99…dunno why they r so expensive in the states compared with dvds. Still rather the DVD