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Bandai to Ship UMD and DVD Discs Together
Anime publisher Bandai has announced that they will be shipping UMD and DVD discs together for some of their releases, and GamesIndustry.biz has the tale. From the article: "Brand new anime series Eureka 7, which has been created by the team behind the hugely successful RahXephon, will be the first to get the treatment - with a single box housing both UMD and DVD, for slightly more than the price of buying both separately." UMD stands for Universal Media Disc, and is the proprietary format that Sony uses for the PSP.
"with a single box housing both UMD and DVD, for slightly more than the price of buying both separately."
Wow, what a deal.
a single box housing both UMD and DVD, for slightly more than the price of buying both separately.
Cool I can get both for only a little more than it would cost to buy them both separatly!
And this is a good deal why?
I hope you mean they are going to sell them for slightly less, or not to many people are going to buy them together...
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A "Universal Media Disc" is proprietary?
Boy, I hate marketing people.
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so... well, there's a sucker born every minute.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Am I the only one who finds it odd that the proprietary format for the PSP is called "universal"?
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From the article:
Japanese media giant Bandai has announced the first movie titles to feature both a DVD and a UMD version in the same box, a trend which was widely predicted when Sony first announced the PSP's movie capabilities but has until now failed to materialise.
Yeah right. Consumers won't stand for a price hike for a format they can't use. I bet Bandai will be the first and last company to do this. I think the PSP's much touted and more maligned movie capabilities will fade into vapour within 6 months.
I bet that pink Power Ranger looks just as hot on a 3 inch screen though.
ITs always the proprietary, closed formats that get names with words like "universal" in them. Universal to what? The disc that is universally used in psps? how retared is that?
so now people can pay 500 dollars for shitty dubs and subs, yay fucking yay!!!!
Except for the weird pricing, this might be worth a shot. If buying the double disc version is really more than buying both separately (which I doubt will remain the case) then I hope there are more extras thrown in to make it worthwhile. In any case, episodic content, like a TV anime series, is a good fit for the PSP and UMD media if DVDs ship with the UMD versions. I can see commuters and students wanting to catch an episode of their favorite series on the train or during lunch in the park.
The problem I see for TV episodes on UMD is that a lot of TV is already available online for download which means why bother with UMD when you can put shows on a memory stick. Right now most TV show downloads are illegal, but eventually legal services will pop up which will make the UMD even less attractive for TV content. Still, my guess is that downloads won't have the extras that can be placed on a disc, so there may still be a niche for UMD to thrive in. The trick and fun here is that this is all terra incognita, no one knows how the market is going to develop!
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What follows is a tutorial for doing just that
(lovingly stolen from my friends redvsblue journal).
March 26th, 2005 The tutorial for getting RvB on PSP Important Step Skipped, try again if you didn't get it before.
OK. Many of you have been wondering, WTF, why can't I just drag and drop my files, and bam there are my movies? One of the sad things about the PSP is, the lack of a program on the computer that easily sorts out the files.
Go here, and watch the tutorial. If you don't have time... just connect your psp to the computer and make a folder on it entitled: "MP_ROOT." Then make a folder within that called: "100MNV01"
Note: "MP_ROOT" should be right next to the folder called "PSP," not inside of it.Also, although not tested, I don't believe you need a video saying, congradulations on getting video to your PSP.
Download this, next
This is the 3GP website. For those of you that want to know the source of the site, its in Japanese.
When you get it downloaded, unzip the file, and then install the software. EDIT IMPORTANT: Double click SETUP and change it to MP4, PSP (you can use "direct" if you have USB mode set up on your PSP). You'll know that you're good so far when you see a program that looks like this:
http://www.nurs.or.jp/~calcium/3gpp/images/3GPPC onv_01.gif
You can change the language to English.
Set a directory (unless you want it to hog up the desktop, two files will be made each time you start a conversion. Drag and drop an episode of your choice, and the program should begin a conversion. Watch the log, to see if it is making good progress. If you want episode fifty-two, the episode is downloadable at the bottom for PSP play.
I ran into a problem with both Windows Media Video, and .mov formats.
Divx versions of the episodes worked fine.
Once you recieve TWO output files, with the beginning numbers "M4VCXXXX" (x=numbers) with a .mp4 extension and a .THM format, drag and drop the two files into "100MNV01."
Enjoy
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universal when I can copy my own content on the UMD instead of memory card.
You can use it anywhere in the Universe that you bring your PSP. Universal.
Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese, so I'm relying on Google's translation. It kinda looks like the DVD only version is 3,900 yen, and the DVD-UMD bundle is 5,250 yen. I don't see how much the UMD would be by itself, so I don't know how much of a savings (or not) you would get through the bundle.
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It's universal because if you use Sony's tools, you can put any kind of data on the disc (That doesn't violate the Universal Copyright and Content Laws), then you could in theory share that data with aliens that also has PSPs!
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More importantly, RahXephon was hugely successful? I mean, I loved it, but I thought most people saw it as a crappy Evangelion clone for some reason. Hopefully this new series can be anywhere near as good.
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I commute daily for 45 minutes each way on a bus, and I regularly download television programs and put them on my PSP to watch on the ride.
I've seen the UMD movies that are coming out and have said that I won't buy them when I can buy the exact same movie on DVD for about the same price, but the DVD will work on my computer, DVD players, etc, and I can rip the DVD for viewing on the PSP.
If the price increase of a combo pack wasn't too much of an overhead, I would definitely consider spending a few extra dollars on the UMD movie in the same package for viewing on my boring bus rides.
As many have said people can just download shows and put them on a memory stick... which makes it kind of ironic that the first will be Eureka 7, since they are going to make it downloadable at the offical site (each ep a week after it airs, so the first one should be showing up this weekend).