UMD Movies continue downward spiral
6 Comments Published by Dasme 6 years, 10 months ago in News, PSP.
The bad news concerning Sony’s UMD video format keeps rolling in. According to a post over at Joystiq, Target has just announced that they will be removing all UMD Movies from their store shelves. This doesn’t come as a surprise to those in the know, but general consumers may wonder why this is happening. Sony, when will you learn that proprietary formats die a horrible death 9 times out of 10. Users will not pay $25 for a UMD movie when they can buy a DVD for $15 and play it on more then just their PSP.
In Joystiq’s normal tongue-in-cheek fashion, they’ve recommended that we pick up the following titles while they are still around ;)
- Cheaper by the Dozen
- Crash
- Cruel Intentions
- Cursed
- Doom
- Dumb and Dumber
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Never Die Alone
I reccomend that Joystiq sucks on my balls, while they still can. Anything can happen, you know! :O
Did Sony really think these were going to be a hit? It amazes me sometimes how myopic and clueless some companies can be about these things. Grown men wearing suits that cost more than I make in a month sat down and thought, “Sure, people will pay almost twice the price of a DVD to get a movie that has none of the special features and can only be played on one device.” Unbelievable.
/bangs head against the wall
Yeah, seriously, fire these people. On paper, PSP only movies sounds awesome, but not when we can watch it on a screen 20 times as big (more!) in HD too… for cheaper. What the hell?
It’s so much cheaper to just rip a dvd and put it on your memory card. endless # of movies. Besides memory cards have really droped. I picked up a gig for only $25
I have always been suprised at the price of UMD movies, at 5 or 10 pounds (at the most) they would have been popular, but in reality they are a secondary movie format and should have treated as such by sony.
Sony Umd is LAME