http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/ Engadget HD Comments for Portable Copy makes us wonder why we still have UMD http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:37AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:52AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/
Instead people took one look at the price and ignored the format almost entirely (except for games). Those that watch movies on their PSP do so by ripping a DVD. At least Sony were smart enough to let them play movies back from a memory stick. That was definitely a smart move.]]>Jan 8th 2008 8:41AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:49AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:56AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 2:42AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 3:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Give me a break It's like Jango Fett up there just said UMD wasn't made to be the next DVD people it's just a delivery format for the PSP.
And UMD movies are still useful, for one thing the quality is really nice and you can bring more than maybe 2 of them at most unless you want to load up a bunch of movies onto multiple memory sticks before you leave.
They aren't as expensive as they used to be as well. ]]>Jan 8th 2008 3:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 10:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 10:55AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 11:08AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/
Seriously if you are going to make such asinine comments and pontificate about products you clearly know nothing about (UMD) at least be upfront about that fact because your idiocy is showing and it's ugly.]]>Jan 8th 2008 12:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 12:18PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/
Will it ever be used for home media? Doubtful considering how cheap DVD's are and how much they hold. And UMD can't even touch the HD media capacities. Ever.


Will it ever be used for portable media? No unless you like hauling around huge batteries. Spinning a motor takes juice. Reading solid state memory takes next to nothing, and have you even seen pricing on 512mb SD cards lately? They're also 1/16 the size of the UMD things.

I think it's safe to say it's dead.]]>Jan 8th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/08/portable-copy-makes-us-wonder-why-we-still-have-umd/Jan 8th 2008 1:35PM