So, is the UMD a failure?

[pbroy]

MikeB said:

pbroy said:

When electronic stores got rid of the dedicated space for UMD Movies, UMD became a failure. It wasn't a smart move to sell UMD movies which was obviously of lower quality and cost more.

Edit: When CS became possible on PSP, UMDs became obsolete to many.

So without distributing movies on UMD, UMD would have been a success, but not now?

I can see you are no businessman. The PSP is powerful and featurefull enough to include a movie codec, IMO it made sense for Sony to tap this potential. It probably helped lower UMD mass production costs and provided a few extra bucks for Sony and additional options to users.

UDM as a movie format has been more successful than I expected. Many years before the PSP launched I already watched movies in the train using my laptop, higher quality and much bigger screen, I think Sony knew such things as well.

UMD as a format is a faliure. PSP as a media player is not. It is the ultimate mutli-media, emulation handheld (PSP-2000). You can put any movies you want on a memory stick/microsd and watch it on your PSP. Why carry around a bunch of UMD movies when you can rip them from your own DVDs that you can buy for cheaper than UMD movies?

What does being a businessman have anything to do with it? Are you a Sony salesman or something? o_O