UMD Movies for PSP Now on Endangered Species List - PSP-Forum.com

kingster · 04-05-2006, 06:03 PM

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.

Who Needs Movies?

According to news reports today, retail giant Wal-Mart is considering pulling UMDs off the shelves, or at least reducing its stock drastically.

In addition, Universal has bid farewell to the format. A high-placed executive at Universal, in an interview with Reuters, said, "It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb -- like Blu-Ray."

Proprietary Technology

Part of the reason Sony is having this problem, said Mukul Krishna, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, is the proprietary nature of the UMD technology. While most other developers are moving to open formats that offer greater interoperability, Sony's focus on developing its own technologies ties users down to a single device.

"Anyone who is going for anything proprietary is shooting themselves in the foot," Krishna opined. "Unless it is a very niche market, it makes no sense having a proprietary format."

Source from http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xht...0003D8S4<br />

weezer · 04-06-2006, 01:43 PM

UMD's imo are a total waste of money and sony's making the right decision by pulling them off the shelves. it was a bad idea since the beginning. they were just too expensive, and werent even worth the money for something more expensive and worse than a dvd (less feats.).

hopefully in the future they'll come up with something better....

kingster · 04-06-2006, 06:29 PM

thats what I told the sony salesgirl!

singchen · 04-12-2006, 03:47 PM

When you've got all this conversion software available to format your own movie collection into MP4s, who wants to pay a king's ransom for a UMD? Nice idea from Sony, but unless they have a look at pricing, UMD movies won't be around for too much longer.

04-05-2006, 06:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
kingster Hi! I'm new around here... Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 14	UMD Movies for PSP Now on 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. Who Needs Movies? According to news reports today, retail giant Wal-Mart is considering pulling UMDs off the shelves, or at least reducing its stock drastically. In addition, Universal has bid farewell to the format. A high-placed executive at Universal, in an interview with Reuters, said, "It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb -- like Blu-Ray." Proprietary Technology Part of the reason Sony is having this problem, said Mukul Krishna, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, is the proprietary nature of the UMD technology. While most other developers are moving to open formats that offer greater interoperability, Sony's focus on developing its own technologies ties users down to a single device. "Anyone who is going for anything proprietary is shooting themselves in the foot," Krishna opined. "Unless it is a very niche market, it makes no sense having a proprietary format." Source from http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xht...0003D8S4<br /> __________________ http://www.pspwholesaler.com - domain for sale

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kingster Hi! I'm new around here... Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 14	thats what I told the sony salesgirl! __________________ http://www.pspwholesaler.com - domain for sale

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04-06-2006, 01:43 PM	#2 (permalink)
weezer Moderator<>rotaredoM Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Guess Posts: 3,940	UMD's imo are a total waste of money and sony's making the right decision by pulling them off the shelves. it was a bad idea since the beginning. they were just too expensive, and werent even worth the money for something more expensive and worse than a dvd (less feats.). hopefully in the future they'll come up with something better....

04-12-2006, 03:47 PM	#4 (permalink)
singchen Hi! I'm new around here... Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 5	When you've got all this conversion software available to format your own movie collection into MP4s, who wants to pay a king's ransom for a UMD? Nice idea from Sony, but unless they have a look at pricing, UMD movies won't be around for too much longer.