I'ts suprising, but, not so unexpected that Sony is basically dropping its support of UMD.
Now that flash memory is cheaper (4 GB for $50) and Solid State drives are slowly working their way down the foodchain from PC's to laptops to game systems, I expect to see the next generation of handhelds with no less than 20GB of Flash memory - no moving parts - and better battery life.
The next PSP should be SSD drive based and should feature primarily downloadable media.
Well, if Sony was going to wait 5+ years for the next PSP to come out, or wanted it to cost more than the PS3, then I might be inclined to agree with you.
I can't be the only one that thinks this is a load of bull? We should be able to do this anyway, on as many players as we like. I should be able to rip a blu ray disk bought from sony and put it on my iPod, or have the ability to rip DVD's in itunes and use them on my PSP. This would be perfectly legal in the UK and feasible if everyone wasn't so frikkin short sighted and greedy.
@fanman The problem is when you say (since we’re all into social networking these days), “hey Face Book or My Space friend, check this out. I’ll send it to you”. Listen, I’m all for “fare use” and if Sony wants to imbed (with out additional cost) a PSP version of a flick on a single Blue-Ray Disc for me to transfer to the PSP for portable viewing, then I’m all for it. Really it’s the new generation equivalent of what they should have done with UMDs and that is BUY A DVD ($19.99) AND IN THE SAME BOX YOU GET THE SAME MOVIE INCLUDED ON UMD! UMD would have survived using this model! But that’s yesterday’s news. Now hurry up and start embedding those PSP flicks into the Blue-Ray package!
"BUY A DVD ($19.99) AND IN THE SAME BOX YOU GET THE SAME MOVIE INCLUDED ON UMD!"
That would be a bad idea for Sony. The amount of people that have PSP's compared to the amount of people that buy DVD's is insane. There would be millions of people that have no use for their UMD so they would just give it to a friend.
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Evan @ Mar 24th 2008 2:13AM
amen to that.
Flashpoint @ Mar 24th 2008 8:24AM
I'ts suprising, but, not so unexpected that Sony is basically dropping its support of UMD.
Now that flash memory is cheaper (4 GB for $50) and Solid State drives are slowly working their way down the foodchain from PC's to laptops to game systems, I expect to see the next generation of handhelds with no less than 20GB of Flash memory - no moving parts - and better battery life.
The next PSP should be SSD drive based and should feature primarily downloadable media.
greatslack @ Mar 24th 2008 9:24AM
@Flashpoint:
Well, if Sony was going to wait 5+ years for the next PSP to come out, or wanted it to cost more than the PS3, then I might be inclined to agree with you.
fanman @ Mar 24th 2008 9:52AM
I can't be the only one that thinks this is a load of bull? We should be able to do this anyway, on as many players as we like. I should be able to rip a blu ray disk bought from sony and put it on my iPod, or have the ability to rip DVD's in itunes and use them on my PSP. This would be perfectly legal in the UK and feasible if everyone wasn't so frikkin short sighted and greedy.
I'm going to get low ranked aren't I... :(
Frankenstein Black @ Mar 24th 2008 12:08PM
@fanman
The problem is when you say (since we’re all into social networking these days), “hey Face Book or My Space friend, check this out. I’ll send it to you”. Listen, I’m all for “fare use” and if Sony wants to imbed (with out additional cost) a PSP version of a flick on a single Blue-Ray Disc for me to transfer to the PSP for portable viewing, then I’m all for it. Really it’s the new generation equivalent of what they should have done with UMDs and that is BUY A DVD ($19.99) AND IN THE SAME BOX YOU GET THE SAME MOVIE INCLUDED ON UMD! UMD would have survived using this model! But that’s yesterday’s news. Now hurry up and start embedding those PSP flicks into the Blue-Ray package!
Curtis the Claw: Brawl Code 1075-0441-3284 @ Mar 24th 2008 3:37PM
"BUY A DVD ($19.99) AND IN THE SAME BOX YOU GET THE SAME MOVIE INCLUDED ON UMD!"
That would be a bad idea for Sony. The amount of people that have PSP's compared to the amount of people that buy DVD's is insane. There would be millions of people that have no use for their UMD so they would just give it to a friend.