Sony's standing over a buried treasure chest and refuses to dig. Their loss.



Their over priced UMD's failed and they must be assuming people don't want to watch movies on psp. WRONG. We'd love to. But we don't want to spend twenty dollars for some movie we could get on dvd for less, idiots.



Anyway, as someone who knows how to get ANY video ever on the internet, I don't seriously care whether sony wants to start a service or not, but it'd be a no brainer to fully utilize its video watching capabilities through some sort of vongo or itunes service than that UMD crap.



Heck, even make it free. Just add a few adverts to the vids and it's like printing money. Dumbass sony.

if sony was smart they would have never made a UMB format and just put a HDD in place of it. Have everything downloadable..just think of a 40 gig psp...

I agree with this article as well as what most of you have to say..



It just seems like Sony doesn't really care what its consumers want whatsoever.

Sony have released so many formats and they have all failed. Betamax, UMD, MD, MSDuo however i am 90% sure they will win the high definition format war. i mean blu-ray took 69% of all HD movies in march. Its clearly going to win. Its also superior over HD-DVD. And it has the PS3 to boost sales which it is doing. The main thing is that there is alot more major film networks and companys backing the format.

DVD players have not always cost $50...



Anyone remember a time when a PS2 was an affordable DVD player?

so that when the HDD dies, we have to spend an arm and a leg to replace it, or buy a new psp all together...no to mention you'd have to redownload all of the games. And the system would be a lot more expensive! UMDs were a smart move for games, but no movies.

Sony has this with ptv. But with ptv the videos have a time limit on them. When the license expires you must purchase the video again if you still want it. Even if sony did something like this globally it would be lame like ptv. PS, sony will lose the high def war eventually, even Beta was winning at one time.

It's UMD dumbass, and even 40 gigs isn't enough to hold all the games I own let alone my homebrew, and UMD movies.



If Sony was smart, they would release a UMD burner for PS3.

Has the same time limit restrictions

with the SONY miniDisk, you know the MD's. They

wouldn't open up the format to record to it anything

other than audio. It SONY would of allowed use to

record all forms of data to it, it would have survived.

Cut to today, todays MD is UMD and they are still

making the same mistakes. They need to open up the format so that we can record our own data to the Disks. I don't mind MD's,UMD's and MS Pro-Duo Sticks but SONY always refuses to see the light time after time and it's because of this that everything they ever make will never be as good as it's true potential. They corner the market all the time but let it slip through their greedy errogent paws because they don't listen to what the consumers want. This is why the MD's went bye bye and why the UMD's are seeing such hideous sales. They will, NEVER learn and nor do they care to. For some reason they have no problems with making great products that could last, then sitting back and "Letting" them fail due to not caring what we as consumers demand. I really don't get it, They create a great product for whom... the consumers and then time after time locks the consumers out from what they want. This is what I hate about SONY. My kob really sucks some times.

It has already been said and is already in the works being fine tuned. It will go both ways really, steaming "media" to the PSP and from the PSP to the PS3. Meaning, you will be able to play your PSP games on your TV via your PS3 and you will be ale to do the same from your PS3 to your PSP.

While you are correct, they are still not going far enough and it's going far enough that counts. Open up the source, make multiformat burnable UMD's and continue software developement for the product. They tout a family of products PS2, PSP and PS3 but only continues developement on one instead of the later two which can benafit from the continued developement where as PS2 doesn't require such things, just new games.

I just read your long post, and i must say, I don't agree. If sony did that, they'd be losing a LOT of money, so why do it at all? But then again, your insights on how they can also profit from it is good. Almost impossible, but good nonethesless.

The fact that many ipod video format videos, as long as they have no DRM work just fine on the Ps3? I get tons of "small Quicktime/Ipod" branded RSS video feeds and they download and play fine on the psp. It's not a closed format whatsoever, as long as it's on your memory stick.

-GO TO RSS FEEDS

- GO TO VIDEOS

- GO WRITE THE KEYWORD OF THAT SEARCH LETS SAY "FAMILY GUY"

- YOU DOWNLOAD THAT RSS

- YOU GOT EVERYSINGLE "FAMILY GUY" VIDEO...

-PROVIDED BY GROUPER, COMING TO PS3 TOO... "HOME" STLYE.

iv been sayin that for years the psp rules



but SONY is a few fries shor of a happy meal!!