Exactly a year after it was launched in the United States, the Sony PlayStation Portable’s days as a handheld movie-viewing device might be numbered.
Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies on the proprietary Universal Media Disc to a mere trickle. At least two major studios have completely stopped releasing movies on UMD, while others are drastically cutting back.
And retailers also are cutting the amount of shelf space they’ve been devoting to UMD movies, amid talk that Wal-Mart Stores is about to dump the category entirely.
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Sony people are idiots
DRM Crappy Formats
I hate Sony
The only good Hardware they ever made was the original PS1
We’re they actually expecting to sell millions and millions of movies for the psp? Let’s face it who’s going to buy a movie where you can only watch it on one device.
Good point not me. I play games on my psp thats it!
I can’t believe this comes as a suprise why would anyone pay the same price as for a dvd to get this low res umd that is only playable on the psp. It’s insane what these people do.
if i could download movies from sony to put on my psp i might do that. but not at 12 bucks a pop more like 3 or 4.
NO that is not why the reason why is go spend 80- 120 bucks (the cost of 4 movies) get a two gig memory pro due and have all the movies you want for free. The fucked themselves the limited resolution playback from memory stick was not enough to drive sales of UMD media. That and there is now a work around for the crippled playback from Mem Stick.
i need to suggest the removal of UMD movies on the shelf at my store. we are extremely limited on PSP space and we dont have room for many of the games now. and no one has been buying them so it would make sence. we just did the same with the VHS.
Coming up with your own proprietary format and trying to get people to use it doesn’t make sense to me. If there was a need for a new way of watching movies then maybe it’d take off but the need to watch a movie (1 1/2 hours long) anywhere anytime doesn’t happen all that often.
great i love dvd better anyways
Mabye this will make companies that try to push their DRM crap onto consumers to think twice before doing it. People are not as stupid as they give them crediut for.
sony’s proprietory formats sux