Anyone going for a complete PSP UMD library?

[Arcade Antics]

Now that the UMD format is gone for good, is anyone planning on collecting the full library of movies for the PSP?

Count me out.

[98PaceCar]

I'm not going to try to get them all, but I sure hope the prices start to fall a bit. There's still a few out there i'd like to pick up for future flights I have to take.

A lot of people may bash the format, but the quality and convience factor are both very high in my book, enough so that I have already bought about 20 of them and will end up with probably another 20 by the time it's all done.

[PapaStu]

Totally!

I mean spending as much (or more) for the same movie thats on dvd, minus all the standard dvd extras is just what I like doing.

Oh wait....Count me out too.



I've not seen any official announcments that the UMD format is totally dead. Just that most all of the major movie houses are pulling out of the market.

[smork]

Jesus, no. What a useless format. I have a machine for watching DVDs I already own.

Not surprised they ended up failing, really. It'd be one thing if thew PSP connected to yuor TV (easily) so you could at least watch 'em on a big screen, too.

[jajaja]

They really canceled 100%? I read something about it long time ago, but never though about that it was gone for good.

[MrRoboto19XX]

Its like a crappy media trinity, Beta, Minidisk and UMD.

Seriously is anyone else tired of Sony acting like their lame proprietaries are going to be the wave of the future?

[GarrettCRW]

They really canceled 100%? I read something about it long time ago, but never though about that it was gone for good.

Target has stopped carrying them, and Wal-Mart and Best Buy will by Labor Day. If that's not the mark of a dead format, then I don't know what is.

[joshnickerson]

They really canceled 100%? I read something about it long time ago, but never though about that it was gone for good.

Target has stopped carrying them, and Wal-Mart and Best Buy will by Labor Day. If that's not the mark of a dead format, then I don't know what is.

Wow. I knew about Target, but I didn't know about the others. Damn. Those didn't last very long, did they? *L*

I think it was a good idea in theory, but not in practice. Charging more for a bare-bones UMD compared to about ten dollars less for a fully featured DVD. I think if UMDs had been priced even five dollars less than their DVD counterparts, they would've stood a better chance, but as it stands, it seems people would rather just rip movies directly into their memory sticks (which appears to be the approach Sony will be taking next).

Of course, I've never owned a PSP, much less played one, so I'm probably just talking out of my ass.

[scooterb23]

I should start scarfing up the ones I want, looking to get a PSP later this year...

[LiquidX01]

No... I already own the vast majority of the PSP library on the PS2.

Now the movies, Probably not since they are such a rip and lack so many features of their DVD counterparts.

[norkusa]

Don't forget about this piss-poor title selection too. Does Sony really think people want watch crap like Boat Trip, Herbie, Bewitched, and Stealth on their PSP's at $20 a pop?

Sure, there may be some decent ones out but the majority of UMD movies I see in stores are all garbage films like these. So I never buy any.

[Lothars]

Its like a crappy media trinity, Beta, Minidisk and UMD.

Seriously is anyone else tired of Sony acting like their lame proprietaries are going to be the wave of the future?

but that's the thing Both Beta and Minidisk were not bad formats

heck in fact Beta is a great format that unfortunatly lost to VHS and Minidisk should have been alot bigger than they were.

Minidisk is an awesome format, there's nothing bad I can say about it.

[suppafly]

Im really, really happy about SOny`s failure selling umd movies.

They shouldve priced them at 50% of a real dvd movie. That way maybe It couldve been successful....

IM always excited to watch greedy companies fail!

[Griking]

Im really, really happy about SOny`s failure selling umd movies.

They shouldve priced them at 50% of a real dvd movie. That way maybe It couldve been successful....

IM always excited to watch greedy companies fail!

It's funny, I 100% agree with that.

I'm kinda wondering however where all the people are who were claiming that UMD movies were the greatest thing since sliced bread about a year ago.

[sirhansirhan]

I'm very happy to see the UMDs fail; they gave me a bad impression of the PSP due to their ludicrousness, and when I finally got a PSP a few months ago, I was impressed with what a good game machine it is, so the stupidity of the UMDs leaked over in my mind to the rest of the system.

But really, there was a thread about if there was one rare PSP game yet a while ago, and what I really wonder about is what the rare UMDs are, because I'm sure that they exist.

[norkusa]

But really, there was a thread about if there was one rare PSP game yet a while ago, and what I really wonder about is what the rare UMDs are, because I'm sure that they exist.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I checked Ebay a few months ago but didn't see any unusually high UMD movie prices, so it might be too early to tell what ones are going to be rare/sought after.

[98PaceCar]

If people are so dead set against UMD movies, don't buy them. It's really pretty simple.

I think they were a great idea. I'm sure there are some people that bought a PSP because of them. Now, I doubt they are on this forum, but I'm sure they are out there.

Think about this... If a person buys a PSP to watch some movies, that will show up in the install base for the system. It's probably not a large number, but enough to show up in the total units sold. If a game developer is going to consider making a game for the system, they are going to largely base their decision on how many units they can sell. A larger install base of the system means more potential sales, thus the decision to develop a game becomes much easier to make, thereby giving gamers more choices.

It's not like there was ever a meeting where a company had to decide between releasing a movie and developing a game. Maybe they were priced a bit high, or maybe they weren't targeted towards gamers. Maybe they were targeted to a higher end user that has extra money to burn and doesn't want to waste their time ripping and converting a dvd to watch it from the memory stick only to end up with a lesser quality version of the movie.

Cheer all you want, but this doesn't help the PSP in a single way.

[Princess-Isabela]

now when umd failed, I wonder how sony feels about their blu-ray format...

[Half Japanese]

Its like a crappy media trinity, Beta, Minidisk and UMD.

Seriously is anyone else tired of Sony acting like their lame proprietaries are going to be the wave of the future?

Good arguement, but it's lacking in truth. From what I've heard (it was pretty much dead by the time I was born) Beta was superior to the VHS format, and MD is still pretty popular overseas (and far cooler and more durable than CDs by far). It's not so much that Sony's formats aren't good, it's just that they never really catch on, which makes them unpopular, but not necessarily crappy.

[kentuckyfried]

If people are so dead set against UMD movies, don't buy them. It's really pretty simple.

They didn't.