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Target Pulling UMDs From Shelves? |
Listed in: UMD Movies, Rumors Tags: Betamax, Hollywood
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Are UMD movies going the way of the dinosaur? Well, Kotaku reports a rumor today from an alleged Target employee stating that at least his retailer is getting rid of the poorly-supported format.The story goes that the employee works in the electronics section at a Target store and when he walked in today he noticed the PSP UMD movies section was missing. His boss supposedly said that Target wasn't going to be selling UMD movies any longer. This employee supposedly then called other Target stores in his city, and they also said they had pulled the disks.
So, does this mean UMD movies are going, going, gone?
Well, we reported earlier that Wal Mart may get rid of UMD sales this year and that Universal movies studios are no longer going to make movies for the UMD format.
But Target online still lists around 500 UMD movies for sale, so these disappearances from Target could just be a regional effort. Or it could be the beginning of a trend to move away from the format.
What do you guys think?
Via Kotaku
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Some marketing retard at Sony should be shot.
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The home screen is a bit choppy but with a little adjustment things get smoothed out. The games are pixelated but not as bad as the movies. I've tried this before on my old tv. But that was a 26" console. And it was still a bit choppy but it didn't have the huge squares that showed up on the lcd.
MaxMedia and proper editing to the videos that you encode is the way to go in my humble opinion. The bar down the street from my place sometimes lets me hook the psp up to their plasma when the game isn't on, and the picture is much cleaner with the videos I've set up than what I got with the umd.
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Well after all of that we ended up with a format that will only last until the PSP goes under in about 5 years.
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I haven't bought a single movie yet, and never will!
Seemed like a good concept but prices killed it!
If they sold for $4.99 maybe I would of bought some.
Yeah, get them of the shelves , they're just taking up space!
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On the other hand, UMD movies and music? THEY SUCK! BRING THEM OFF OF STORE SHELVES ALL YOU WANT! It'll make more room for real UMD content, like games!!!!
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At least the duo/pro duo format isn't gonna die anytime soon.
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"12 gigbyte sandisk brand memory stick to be released around 春分の日."
NOTE: the translator i used did not translate the japanese symbol shown. Further investigation into the symbol showed that is was a japanese holiday around spring. I tried sending this to qj net thing however, for some reason after two attempts, did not go through. More quotes,
"This high capacity storage device is being released as an alternative to holding your ps1 iso's, well, that is at least the intention of sandisk. The predicted price is 39,800 yen."
Does anyone know how much that is in american or uk money??? It sounds liike alot. Hopefully qj will read this and post this. Lastly, you can check out this cool products picture here.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i290/xsouthpole/SANDISK12GBMSD.jpg
Once again i say I AM NOT POSTING THE SITE TILL I GET PROPER CREDIT FOR FINDING THIS.
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Well, looks like UM Studios want their movies to be downloaded off torrents, converted, and placed on our memory sticks :/
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SONY GIVE US A UMD BURNER!!!!!!!!! !
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1. the psp had a built in video out, then you wouldnt have to rebuy the movie for your tv.
2. made them at most $10.
and how could a $5 umd be $10 after taxes? last i knew sales tax wasnt 100%
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*****ING IDIOTS
HRMM DVD? OR ***** UMD ON A TINY SCREEN....HR!M!M@M!M
whatever, umd movie idea died before it began
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(remember this? :) )
it could have been if you could record UMDs yourself, after all "tapes" were available to all to record, mix and share music
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why watch it on a small screen where u can miss loads when u can hav it large!!
i wouldnt EVER buy a umd movie.
UMD VIDEO = TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY.
why did they even bother
also #1 +#2 - Lol nice comment
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My feeling is that they should focus on increasing the storage capacity of their UMD's and offer PS2 quality games on the PSP....
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F**K SONY!!
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This is primarily a games-machine, and they've wanted to do to much to soon. Get it up and running as a popular games-machine with LOTS of QUALITY titles. When the userbase is large enough, you can carefully start trying out other stuff like movies etc. and see how well it hits the users.
As it is, they released a machine on the public who didn't know what to make of it. Is it a games-machine, a portable media player, a WLAN connection to your home entertainment system? Only thing that's for sure is that it's NOT homebrew-friendly, which is NEVER a plus!
This is a prime example on how to ruin a great opportunity with too high ambitions - wanting to bite over too large a bit of the market. IMO of course... :)
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It would feature well with their new sales idea
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/13/sony_psp_memorystick_movies/
PSP hit on a good think with the pro duo, yet they have always been reliant on the UMD! Meh!
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Also, the UMDs were an experimental idea. Sony didnt know if it was going to fail or be a success. its hard to intorduce a new format to the community and have the public accept it. The UMD games would also sell more if sony didnt require a certain firware version to play it.
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i love nintendo but i don't mind microsoft, it would be kick ass if xbox360 kept going strong wii right behind with sony and rock *****ing bottom
Sony being *****y is going to be the end of them
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when the ps1 came out round the same time as the nintendo in Aus the n64 was 400$ and the ps1 250$
Back then me and my rich friends had n64, the poorer kids had either nothing or the piece of ***** ps1, then after that the rich kids either got the cube, or got the xbox the poorer scumier kids got the ps2.
Now when the ps3 comes out the only people that want it cant afford it HA HA
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and # 6 is right, also # 5... ok so you have this new format, with everything new, the umd writers... and all the other crap... you get greedy... but #5 bucks is just TOO cheap, your not really paying for the UMD.. you mostly pay for the movie thats in it...
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Personally, I bought a couple of movies in UMD format and found them to be incredibly inconvientent as a format to watch movies on. Man reason, holding the PSP. Even in the best of circumstances my hadn woudl cramp up holding the PSP still for so long and it made the movie watching unenjoyable. Also, the inability to send those movies to a normal TV is probably the real nail in the coffin here.
Target says you can still buy UMD movies online through their website and I suspect GameFly and Netflixs will still rent the UMD format as long as Sony keeps producing it. UMD is much better suited to games but having a movie option is nice. I think this is a no win situation all around. Portable DVD players will kill this market for a long long time.
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I know that everyone is whining about how UMD Videos are too much to carry around, cost too much and just aren't supported by other device readers, but seriously, they aren't marketing to you. They are marketing to individuals like me, who enjoy quality over quantity, so take a chill pill.
Don't like the format, so what, don't buy it. Use whatever alternative you want and come up with something better(hence the PMP format for v1.5). We all have our fixes.
Let's say you have a 4Gb pro duo, with an encoded video using PMP format on good quality, you can only fit 4 real movies in PMP. Although, most likely, you'll only have the time to pop one on, considering the time it takes to decrpyt, encode and than copy to such a format(this doesn't apply to everyone of course, because some of us have amazing systems, but many of us just don't have the best computers on the market). The UMD just works when you need something on the fly, where as memory stick media is for those of us who have time to wait.
Consider the fact of you being a frequent flyer, do you have time to pop in a video to your laptop, encode, copy it over and than add it all to your PSP, not likely. Other propose using external sources to capture and store your content using NetServer technology or USBHost technology, but some of us just don't have access to the wireless world 24/7. It's mostly about convience.
Also, consider the release of movies formatted for PSP via Sony's current Mem Stick quality playback. The highest possible video resolution is 320x240(unless hacked and Sony probably wont do that). It just seems like an unlikely alternative for people who enjoy quality. Also, if Sony releases movies via online distribution, piracy would consume the PSP video viewing world, it's already an issue, but with a digital copy of these movies, hacking would become commonplace and these movies would be found on every torrent and P2P network across the WWW.
Just be mindful that the UMD Movie is still a great alternative and doesn't take up that precious memory stick space that we all have. The UMD provides the protection against some piracy while maintaining the best possible playback. You also get multiple audio levels, extra content and multiple language options, so it provides that little extra lacking in the homebrew video playback. Love don't hate folks! It's so much easier.
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