View Full Version : UMD officially a Bomb
gilatron5000
04/03/06, 01:08 PM
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/30/1626239
Next Generation reports that Wal-mart is dumping the UMD format (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2626&Itemid=2), because no one was buying movies with the media. Above and beyond that decision, the studios are unimpressed as well. From the article: "One unnamed president of a major studio is quoted as saying, 'No one's watching movies on PSP. It's a game player, period.' Universal Studios Home Entertainment has ceased UMD production. One exec told Reuters, 'Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb.' Paramount is also considering its future with PSP's format. An exec said, 'We are on hiatus with UMD. Releasing titles on UMD is the exception rather than the rule. No one's even breaking even on them.'"
Sucks, I guess. Not that ever expected the PSP to be a big movie player. Who really wants to rebuild their movie collection when they could buy a portable DVD player for 100 bucks?
Another Article.
http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=4136
fedhed7
04/03/06, 01:09 PM
Sux.
Shatter590
04/03/06, 01:12 PM
UMD is good for one thing: uploading your anime onto a blank one.
DroppedUrPocket
04/03/06, 01:12 PM
:shrugs:
Can't say I'm surprised, really. I sure as hell didn't buy any. Luckily people are smart and realized putting a movie on a new form of media for the same price and sometimes more than a DVD is dumb. I feel if they would have packed them with more features and they would have been $15 tops, it would have been better received.
Regardless, downloading from internet + big memory stick = win.
Drew Beringer
04/03/06, 01:12 PM
not surprising.
djUbilla
04/03/06, 02:02 PM
Did any one on here ever buy any?
DroppedUrPocket
04/03/06, 02:05 PM
Did any one on here ever buy any?
One for Spider-Man 2 came with the PSP value pack. That's as close as I've gotten to them.
You'd have thought Sony would have learnt from the Minidisc they used to make.
They had a good start. the problem was companies started releasing movies that weren't right for the demographic or they were releasing movies bad movies that people have no excuse to buy in a umd format.
Hallow Man, Batman (The Adam West one, the even bigger problem is they release this for $20+ yet the dvd version is in bargin bins for undeer $5) Agent Cody Banks, Man of the House, Christmas with the Kranks, BeWitched, Hitch... the list goes on forever.
DroppedUrPocket
04/03/06, 02:30 PM
They had a good start. the problem was companies started releasing movies that weren't right for the demographic or they were releasing movies bad movies that people have no excuse to buy in a umd format.
Hallow Man, Batman (The Adam West one, the even bigger problem is they release this for $20+ yet the dvd version is in bargin bins for undeer $5) Agent Cody Banks, Man of the House, Christmas with the Kranks, BeWitched, Hitch... the list goes on forever.
This is also true. Some of the shit they put out was just horrible horrible tripe.
You'd have thought Sony would have learnt from the Minidisc they used to make.
They turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Prerecorded MiniDiscs were the suck but recordable ones are great. 30 hours of music on a $2 disc. I love my Mini Disc player/recorder.
Saves The Night
04/03/06, 02:33 PM
They turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Prerecorded MiniDiscs were the suck but recordable ones are great. 30 hours of music on a $2 disc. I love my Mini Disc player/recorder.my minidisc player broke after 2 months...i was pissed
i like guitars
04/03/06, 03:07 PM
You'd have thought Sony would have learnt from the Minidisc they used to make.
minidisk???? whats that.
no im joking i remember those, they sucked.
They turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Prerecorded MiniDiscs were the suck but recordable ones are great. 30 hours of music on a $2 disc. I love my Mini Disc player/recorder.
I was mainly talking about the pre-recorded minidiscs. I had a Minidisc player, and with a microphone they were great for recording gigs. But they were too small back when I had one. The 1GB+ Minidiscs came in way too late in my opinion, since most people have iPods and shit now.
Still, I commend them for the recording capabilities of the Minidisc. Still use it at school for some projects
I was mainly talking about the pre-recorded minidiscs. I had a Minidisc player, and with a microphone they were great for recording gigs. But they were too small back when I had one. The 1GB+ Minidiscs came in way too late in my opinion, since most people have iPods and shit now.
Still, I commend them for the recording capabilities of the Minidisc. Still use it at school for some projects
I only own one prerecorded mini disc. London Calling which i also have on vinyl, cassette, and cd twice. The Minidisc was fantastic for recording audio.
radiofriendly
04/03/06, 04:40 PM
it was a good idea, but one that couldn't really be fruitful. i think an iTunes-esque format would be cool, but PSP memory is expensive as hell. the format is too specific to have garnered any profit. you would be a fool to have not seen this coming.
jawkneephighv
04/04/06, 02:08 PM
You'd have thought Sony would have learnt from the Minidisc they used to make.Thank you!
Anton Djamoos
04/04/06, 02:10 PM
omg sony sux
DroppedUrPocket
04/04/06, 02:15 PM
it was a good idea, but one that couldn't really be fruitful. i think an iTunes-esque format would be cool, but PSP memory is expensive as hell. the format is too specific to have garnered any profit. you would be a fool to have not seen this coming.
The memory isn't too bad anymore. The 1gb stick is like...60 bucks or so. You can fit a shit ton of stuff on there, if you format shit right.
I think Sony try to appeal to too big a market with their own brand media. The minidiscs were a bit more successful since other companies made players and disks, but UMDs were specific to the PSP, and I don't think enough people cared. Besides which, a 1GB stick can be filled up so quickly. Maybe a few episodes of a TV show, game saves, some albums, and some pictures, and that's it. You've just used up £60 worth of memory, time to buy some more.
reductiondesign
04/04/06, 03:28 PM
No surprise. PSPs are way overrated anyway.
SingleDoubt
04/04/06, 04:01 PM
they shouldve released a UMD home player, then you could have the movies you watch at home and take them on the road or wherever
they shouldve released a UMD home player, then you could have the movies you watch at home and take them on the road or wherever
Home player/recorder would have been a great move
jawkneephighv
04/04/06, 05:54 PM
Home player/recorder would have been a great moveguess what? we already have something like it -- they're called DVDs.
if they had made a homeplayer for the UMDs, the whole purpose would have been defeated -- the format was created for the playstation PORTABLE. yeah, good job.
guess what? we already have something like it -- they're called DVDs.
if they had made a homeplayer for the UMDs, the whole purpose would have been defeated -- the format was created for the playstation PORTABLE. yeah, good job.
Not neccessary a just home player but a way to record onto umd like a portable mini disc player can also record. then you'd be able to record form dvd, vhs, tv to umd and take it where you want to go on the playstation PORTABLE. You could take movie you alread own on dvd, rip them to an umd and have a portable version of it rather than buying it in another format. If the PSP was a umd writer itself you could hook camera or mic up to it and record directly to umd. The problem with umds is their scope is way to narrow.
You can just rip them on computers, then put them on a UMD. A home recorder would be completely pointless, hella-expensive and would probably have bankrupted the UMD a lot faster
You can just rip them on computers, then put them on a UMD. A home recorder would be completely pointless, hella-expensive and would probably have bankrupted the UMD a lot faster
They made blank umds?
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