Sony's PSP Handheld Storage Media Pictured

Thanks to Evil Avatar for pointing to an article on the new PSP Insider website that has the first pictures of the UMD disc format. The Universal Media Disc, or UMD for short, is the game storage medium that Sony's handheld, the PSP will use when it launches in late 2004, and is a 2.4 inch disc that can store up to 1.8gb of data.

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Re:Discs in a hand held?

[NeonSpirit]

I would assume that Sony will build on the MiniDisc technologies. The MZR-900 has a specified 66 hours playback. With music continuous read is required ( with anti-skip buffer ). With games I would assume there would be burst read into RAM of some sort, when you get to a new level or whatever.

I am wondering how save games will be handled, with Sonys history I would guess a limited internal memory with memory stick for transfer.