crumas2 on 10 October 2008
| Jo21 said: http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/10/10/zomg-dark-knight-blu-ray-available-for-pre-order/ it here to stay, the blur ay is getting studio support. 100% of it, UMD failed because it wasn't. |
UMD was never meant to replace DVD, so I don't think he should even be comparing Blu-ray to that format.
However, I had a PSP fairly early on, and the format had a LOT of studio support. But there were two problems:
1. Most people bought a PSP for games, not movies
2. UMD movies could not initially be played through the TV (and were too low resolution for that anyway), which forced consumers to either have duplicate movie libraries or choose one format over the other.
I remember reading how the movie studios kept pulling their support, one by one, after months of UMD movies sales failed to produce any respectable volume.
