| kowenicki said: @mikeb How long as UMD been available? Aside from the Sony and the PSP How many other devices utilise UMD? How many other hardware manufacturers have adopted UMD? How many common home media devices use UMD? |
On which device would you like to see UMD?
It's Sony's format for the PSP, they wanted to push the PSP as a multimedia device and IMO it's impressive they were able to attract so much 3rd party movie support for what is essentially just a mini-DVD format (like a mini-CD was a smaller Compact Disc) with some new compression methods not specifically useful to just UMD.
It's not like a lot of R&D went into developing UMD like was the case for Blu-Ray. Sony made it clear UMD was in no way intended to rival DVD. It's a format to store PSP games and movies on. Only a fairly ordinary DVD movie infrastructure is needed to support the format.
I guess you had very different expectations for the format than I myself had (Sony was more successful than I expected them to be). I only viewed UMD as a PSP games format, like the Wii uses custom DVDs, but unlike the Wii is supported with the movie content option.
