So, is the UMD a failure?

[Ausfalcon]

pbroy said:

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

 

@pbroy

Just check the link for Mike's company Fun Computing (currently in his sig, and see where it goes).  Beyond that this post by Mike explains a business deal attempt between his firm and Sony:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=2089749

Draw you own conclusions.  But know you are far from the first person to percieve this in him and question him on it.

As to the point of the thread itself, I think one must answer the question by looking at what Sony said they were hoping it would be before they ever released it.  At that time Sony said they wanted "to make UMD the de facto compact storage media for the next generation of SD-quality video".  I'd say they failed at that.

quote source:

http://tinyurl.com/ox3sd8