23rd February 2006, 10:12 PM
I have a PSP myself and have no desire at all to buy UMD movies. In fact, I barely had a desire to accept one as a GIFT.
The fact of the matter is, they ARE lesser versions (due to the lesser memory capacity) which can only be shown to a single person at a time and if someone was to get a home player, it would still be a lesser version than the DVD alternative. The size and protective cover are pretty much inconsequential to most people.
And also, you can find DVD players a LOT more places than you can find UMD players. That alone will make up a lot of people's minds, based entirely on being able to bring it over to someone's house and play it.
And this is something that's a kicker: they HAVE portable DVD players. They aren't AS portable, but they have that compatibility with a better format which is a lot more pervasive. The UMD format offers nothing to people, and it is too soon after the VHS replacement. It would be like if, in 1994, Sony offered some really tiny pathetic version of a CD that was unplayable in normal CD players and could only be played on a single propriatary system.
Universal Media my arse (and I know that is a phrase that is meant to allude to some other aspect, but DVDs already HAVE the aspect of being able to store movies music and games all in one, and other things like useful programs too).
And this is a little aside only commenting on the poor design of this particular UMD, but when I select certain scenes, the thing glitches out because some of the scenes don't have a specific video segment attached to them and the screen just goes white until I move the cursor to some other selection.
The fact of the matter is, they ARE lesser versions (due to the lesser memory capacity) which can only be shown to a single person at a time and if someone was to get a home player, it would still be a lesser version than the DVD alternative. The size and protective cover are pretty much inconsequential to most people.
And also, you can find DVD players a LOT more places than you can find UMD players. That alone will make up a lot of people's minds, based entirely on being able to bring it over to someone's house and play it.
And this is something that's a kicker: they HAVE portable DVD players. They aren't AS portable, but they have that compatibility with a better format which is a lot more pervasive. The UMD format offers nothing to people, and it is too soon after the VHS replacement. It would be like if, in 1994, Sony offered some really tiny pathetic version of a CD that was unplayable in normal CD players and could only be played on a single propriatary system.
Universal Media my arse (and I know that is a phrase that is meant to allude to some other aspect, but DVDs already HAVE the aspect of being able to store movies music and games all in one, and other things like useful programs too).
And this is a little aside only commenting on the poor design of this particular UMD, but when I select certain scenes, the thing glitches out because some of the scenes don't have a specific video segment attached to them and the screen just goes white until I move the cursor to some other selection.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)