psp_umd_bluray

david sumner · Post by **david sumner** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:49 pm

With the PSP Sony introduced the UMD. A small disc that could contain movies and games.

Target recently decided not to stock movies for the PSP anymore because of decline in sales. Many of the big studios have also stated that they will stop releasing films in UMD format.

So it looks like another format by Sony is singing on it's last verse. Sony is now putting everything it got on it's next format Blu-ray to succeed. Should it also fail, the future may look very grim for the company.

echosauce1 · Post by **echosauce1** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:15 pm

Every time I see something about this I think back to betamax vs vhs. Yeah, beta was of higher quality and adopted heavily by tv stations, professional video people and what not but the general public? Bomb.

I can't understand for the life of me why sony keeps thinking a propritary (sp?) format is going to succeed.

oh yeah,

minidisc.

sharkmansix · Post by **sharkmansix** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:25 am

what not but the general public?

Beta failed because VHS was the first to market pornography tapes. That and:

JVC made the tactical decision to engage in open sharing of its VHS technology. JVC sacrificed substantial potential earnings by going the open sharing route, but that decision helped to win the standards war.

Sony will be fine with the release of the PS3. Plus games will still be avialable for the PSP; just not the movies.

Blueray might do well. Having a 200 gig DVD would be awesome!

Post by **cwallace** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:47 am

Yeah...BluRay will do just fine...

This has been a highly antisipated technology and there is lots of hype. I am curious as to the lifespan of them and how delicate they are, but I am sure that stuff has been worked out and the final product will be a solid format...

Chris