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Everyone Hates UMD
PSP-Fanboy writes "More bad news for the UMD, which is already dying a speedy death at retail: not only are stores not stocking them, but no one really wants to buy UMD movies either. Although 40% of PSP owners claimed UMD media was a big reason why they plopped down a few hundred on Sony's pixel-spurting game brick, the complaint from actual owners is there just isn't anything worth goddamn buying on UMD."
Everyone does hate UMDs. Someone at work bragged about buying two movies on UMD for cheap, but realized that the DVD version is the same and that the quality blows on UMD.
Just give the PSP a gig of flash memory so you could rip a DVD and put it in memory anyway...
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Could someone tell me why everybody hates Memory Sticks? I mean i'm genuinely curious, i don't really know much about flash memory other than the fact that my camera uses MS.
Is it just the fact that CF and SM and all that jazz already did the job well enough? Or is there like some technical reason or something.
This was actually something I mentioned on another PS3 thread ...
One of the main reasons I don't think that a High Definition format will actually replace DVD anytime soon is that the quality of the movies isn't there. Everyone I knew upgraded their TV, Surround Sound System and even redecorated there room because they wanted the "Theater experience at home". People liked DVD because it made the Fifth Element, The Matrix, Saving Privat Ryan, The Lord of the Rings (and so on) better experiences at home; a family of four could save money on upgrading their home theater (if they had previously gone to a movie a month) in about a year.
UMD failed because there is nothing worthwile to watch anymore; I am down to watching one movie a week and I still go to Blockbuster and spend most of my time wondering who approved a movie where Carrot Top is the President. Unless movies suddenly start improving I suspect that both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will fail to become adopted because people have better things to do than watch third rate movies staring Paris Hilton.
I apologize in advance for throwing gasoline on the flames, but rarely have I ever considered an audio company to know heads from tails about technology. Audio is audio, it has not seen any dramatic changes in decades, just incremental improvements here and there. They're far too busy playing numbers games and hyping nonsense jargon to sell the latest rehash of the same old product.
Sony is #1 when it comes to selling us worthless garbage. They will go to great lengths to make sure their product doesn't work with anything else in the world. When MP3 was booming, Sony went and created NetMD and their stupid ATRAC-3. Why ? God why can't they just embrace standards and cash in like all their competitors do ? Sony is not Microsoft. They don't control the audio industry, they can't lead the way if nobody's following.
-Billco, Fnarg.com
I'm stupid.. I bought a PSP rather than an iPod because I thought it would work as a media player AND be able to play games... where's the downside? *fills up whole memory card*
Well, only 512MB of space for one.. well they will release good movies on UMD then I can watch them on the move, I can't do that on an iPod *cue release of 5th Gen iPod*
Yea but I'm sure they're will be good games for PSP....
now I'm looking at not getting as good a loptop so I can enough cash left over to buy a new iPod.
"People aren't going to less movies because of the quality. It's because there's so much else to do. "
My husband and I were avid movie-goers and DVD-collectors until two years ago. Are we older? Sure, we're older than we were two years ago, but we're not that much older. Since you work in film, take this to heart: all of the movies that have been released in the last two years really are crap. I'm not trying to troll you, I'm trying to make you understand that people aren't just saying that. It's true. And we miss having decent new movies to watch. The last DVD I bought was a copy of Citizen X on Amazon.com, a movie that premiered about 10 years ago. We haven't bought a DVD of a recent movie in 2 years now. Absolutely none of the movies released in the last 2 years appealed to us. We didn't download any of them either; they're not worth watching, not even for free.
Make some decent movies and we will go see them and buy the DVDs. Make crap and/or DRM the DVDs to the hilt, so that I can't even take screenshots while watching it on a computer, and you won't get our money. If you really think that the reason ticket and DVD sales have fallen so is because there is more to do than you are deluded. There has always been much more to do than go to a movie theater or watch a DVD. None of that has changed. What has changed is that the movies coming out aren't worth watching.
In short, make some decent movies, not yet another remake of an old sitcom or a movie based on a good game that is an insult to the game itself. Then sales will rise. The current decline has nothing to do with there being more to do besides go to a movie or with piracy. Those are excuses. Stop making the excuses and make some decent movies. We really do want there to be some movies worth watching again.
I dream of a better world... one in which chickens can cross roads without their motives being questioned.
Would have been the way to go pay a couple bucks extra and you also get the UMD version of the movie along with the dvd and Im sure they would have sold like hotcakes. Also since a ton more UMDs are in circulation release a stand alone portable UMB movie player for under 100 dollers. Im sure if Sony had done that UMD movies wouldnt have flopped so bad.
"What this means is that the same kind of films are done over and over again."
Sounds like it's definitely time to end the farce called copyright.
Promoting "the progress..." eh.