Comments on: UMD Dying http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/ Nerds are for Dorks Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:14:48 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Danny http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/comment-page-1/#comment-26203 Danny Fri, 31 Mar 2006 23:43:14 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2835#comment-26203 With todays' dropping price of Memoery sticks, you could buy 2 gig stick with less than 150 dollors. A 30 min. TV shows with pretty damn good quality will take up about 300-400mb of space. A movie with good quality takes up about .7-1.0gig. (There are PSP application which enalbes PSP to run not just mp4 but avi, and dvix...) As for getting the source of TV shows or movies, there are many ways of getting them for free.. Given this situation, why would one pay 20-30 dollor for signle UMD moveis? well, there is a convinence of not having to go thru process of finding the source or encoding them.... But if u r anything like me, I dont mind those process at all. With todays’ dropping price of Memoery sticks,
you could buy 2 gig stick with less than 150 dollors.
A 30 min. TV shows with pretty damn good quality will take up about 300-400mb of space.
A movie with good quality takes up about .7-1.0gig. (There are PSP application which enalbes PSP to run not just mp4 but avi, and dvix…)

As for getting the source of TV shows or movies, there are many ways of getting them for free..

Given this situation, why would one pay
20-30 dollor for signle UMD moveis?

well, there is a convinence of not having to go thru process of finding the source or encoding them….

But if u r anything like me, I dont mind
those process at all.

]]> By: Griffith http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/comment-page-1/#comment-26202 Griffith Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:52:10 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2835#comment-26202 I have the podcast on my minidisk ;) I have the podcast on my minidisk ;)

]]> By: cliche http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/comment-page-1/#comment-26201 cliche Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:10:46 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2835#comment-26201 I have this on video if anyone wants it. It's on my betamax tape. (sorry, i couldn't resist) I have this on video if anyone wants it. It’s on my betamax tape.

(sorry, i couldn’t resist)

]]> By: John http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/comment-page-1/#comment-26200 John Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:35:23 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2835#comment-26200 Is Sony trying to hold the record of most obscure file formats that failed for reasons everyone predicted? The irony is, if the legitimate sources of UMDs dry up the only way to breathe life in to PSP video playback will be using illegitimate third party tools or piracy, what the locked down device intended to prevent in the first place. Is Sony trying to hold the record of most obscure file formats that failed for reasons everyone predicted?

The irony is, if the legitimate sources of UMDs dry up the only way to breathe life in to PSP video playback will be using illegitimate third party tools or piracy, what the locked down device intended to prevent in the first place.

]]> By: Griffith http://www.forevergeek.com/2006/03/umd_dying/comment-page-1/#comment-26199 Griffith Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:50:03 +0000 http://forevergeek.com/?p=2835#comment-26199 For me the main reason for the UMD's downfall is the lack of a recordable UMD and lack of a video device or drive to use the UMDs on something more than the PSP. The price of them doesn't help a lot either. But even if UMD dies as a video format Sony could always turn things around and deliver a video-purchase service a-la-iTunes. For me the main reason for the UMD’s downfall is the lack of a recordable UMD and lack of a video device or drive to use the UMDs on something more than the PSP.

The price of them doesn’t help a lot either. But even if UMD dies as a video format Sony could always turn things around and deliver a video-purchase service a-la-iTunes.

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