especially when you can get movies for free......



If you know the right places.

I don't think 400 mb for a movie is much, but honestly; we have seen a lot of programs for the psp, such as psplayer, pmp player and more which use video files from 200 to 500 mb for a feature film. and that quality is great! Even a dvd ripped to a 400/500 mb mp4/avc file is definitely worth watching on your psp screen. It's just too bad sony didn't think about giving the psp an official video-out..



Sony! Give us a USB/video out mod!

Umm... the smaller PSP screen resolution aside, are you serious?



DVDs and VCDs use ancient compression technology compared to the PSPs native AVC. There is no reason why a film cant look fine at 400Mb or less when encoded this way.

i believe sony should have done this in the first place thinik about it UMD's are costly (for sony to make and for us to buy) and they take up space, the whole point of the psp is for it to be portable therefore we dont want to be walking round with a load of UMD's whereas these downloads are a stroke of genious because it costs sony nothing but bandwidth to distribute them and aslong as they can get the antipiracy spot on then i think they are on to a winner.......

You're right, high supply and low demand LOWERS prices (has an economics degree, hope i actually learned something....)

i think the piracy issue is all about the individual if someone doesnt want to pay for things they just wont pay whereas people with morals on these things can have every oppurtunity to get movies/games for free and they wont because they believe its wrong. I dont think its solely about the availability.

The author of this article must be living in a time warp, 650MB for a 320x240 avc movie??



I don't think so...

High supply with low demand drives prices down. Why? Because since no one wants to buy it, they have to drop the prices to move inventory. This is the reason why stores have clearance sales. At the end of the season or when new models come out or whatever, they still have inventory left over (high supply), but people are moving on to products for the next season, model year, whatever (low demand). To get rid of the stuff, they drop the price as an incentive for people to buy.



Low supply and low demand could mean that it's a niche market. Costs per unit made go up and those costs get passed on to the consumer.



Low supply and high demand has the same problems as the previous situation, but adds fuel to the fire by having more people demanding the product. That makes the product harder to find. The rarity drives prices up even more.

They say its a 1 time transfer (kinda sucks if you have to DL the movie again), the movies better not cost more then $.50 at a time or else it just wouldn't be worth it, you could rent unlimited amounts of DVD's a month for $5 from netflix or something. So I'd say anything over $1 for a 1 time transfer is too much. And if you put 10 full length movies on a 4GB memory stick, each movie would be 400mb, still a lengthy download, but the quality wouldn't be too bad, so it could be worth it if it was cheap.

VLC plays MP4 perfectly, shut up.

This is a playstation portable.

Playstation. No "phil in" harrison, i dont play psp at home and you dont know ***** all about your consumers *****weed.

I want to play videogames on the go.

UMD was DOA (Due to prices, nothing else)<

and so is this, sony's next major marketing strategy.

I should run sony computer entertainment devision, i will make them more money in a year with good marketing and advetising, then sony have made in the in the nearly 2 years since psp was born. just because i am not out of touch with reality.

look genius there are some flaws in your theory that suggests that dvd video quality (or close to it) cannot be achieved with h.264 avc mp4. the first is that the standard frame size of dvd mpeg 2 is 720x480. the psp screen size is only 320x240. do the math their einstein and you'll find that the specs are right for the length of video fitting on a 4gb memstick as stated. umd was a flop but video downloads certainly will not be. if they have a decent selection beyond $ony owned movie productions then i will take part in the downloading. besides how much money can possibly be lost by ripping dvd's to mp4 and offering them for download at a cost? idiot. you need new writers. the people they let just dribble their idiocy onto the intrawebs is not impressive. most of their staff must still be in middle school. fvckin' noobs.

well Sony why won't you lower the UMD prices in US & Europe first and look at the reaction, just look at the japanese UMD sales after the pricecut!

Am I the only one who thinks the jazz thing is a great idea? The world needs more jazz!

Am I getting crazy, or there is a link to pspupdates.qj.net on the PSP download site? Is Sony supporting homebrew in a way, the guy who wrote that was drunk, or it's just a strategy to add popularity to the PSP?

I didn't know outdated codecs like MPEG-1 versus MPEG-4 were compared together.



Bad points.



Bad article.

Okay before you go writing any articles again, please be aware of all the facts first...



1. As you would think, if there is low demand something might be higher priced. For example lambos. They are a specialty car, so they are higher priced and geared towards delivering luxury. However with UMDs, no one is buying them, thats not why they are high. They are (or were) already high, so no one was buying them because of that reason. Now they are cheap as freak. I work at toys r us and I have bought like 8 UMD movies on super clearence for under 10 bucks because we dont sell any...They are cheaper because of this fact, not more expensive.



2. The quality of movies on a PSP is whatever you want it to be. For example. I have scarface platinum edition on my psp. The whole entire movie, and its just as good as a UMD/DVD. Although it takes up less space (I think its just over a 1gb). And thats a 3 hour movie. But the reason why its dvd quality and less space is because of the resolution. On a smaller screen you dont need as much resolution for something to look good. Thats why Spiderman 2 on UMD looks better than the DVD version looks on a component enabled tv (not to be confused with composite).