Gaijin Posted April 2, 2006 Share Posted April 2, 2006 Ironically Sony was pitching to studios about including both UMD and DVD packs but in the first few months, people actually did buy UMD's at the high prices and studios said, why should we...they're buying them anyways. UMD isn't a total failure...it still is PSP's media for games like a Gameboy Advance cartridge is (those gameboy videos for kids didn't last long either). It is failing as a storage format for films in which again, is too expensive and for some reason, Joe six pack wants to play their UMD's from their shiny new PSP on their TV. There will be a "video out" solution soon (too late though) though, and some people will be happy watching their more expensive lower res UMD movie on their TV. Another thing of interest...Sony knew that sooner or later memory sticks with ripped video would happen and also knew that people would want to copy video to there. With DVD, it is possible but not something "approved" of course. With the new HD formats, things like MMC and MC are to allow users to "legally" download a lower res version to a portable device....like a PSP with a memory stick. Not sure if the implementation will be as was originally planned but this was something they did bring up at several times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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