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Another Sony Format Bites the Dust

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-of-the-road dept.

Lam1969 writes "Reuters is reporting that Universal Media Disc, Sony's PSP-only movie format, is about to kick the bucket. While the discs' novelty factor resulted in strong sales shortly after the PSP's May 2005 launch, interest rapidly dropped and movie companies are no longer interested in producing titles. From the article: "Universal Studios Home Entertainment has completely stopped producing UMD movies, according to executives who asked not to be identified by name. Said one high-ranking exec: 'It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb -- like Blu-ray."'"

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  1. Another Dupe... by NoName+Studios · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...bites the dust!

  2. DuH? by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Hmm...a format that is ONLY useable on the PSP, and costs the same as a DVD....wonderful. Is there honestly ANYBODY who is surprised?

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  3. Re:WTF? by Akaihiryuu · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't necessarily have a problem with the format itself...but selling movies in that format (which is much lower quality than DVD) for MORE than DVD's? Um...no way. If you could get blank rewritable disks and there was an easy way to transfer movies from DVD to it, I'd have no problem with it. But I'm not about to go buy all of my movies that I already have on DVD AGAIN and pay more for them than the DVD's cost.