UMD movie prices announced....can you say OUCH???
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I can't see myself rushing to buy a new release of a movie in UMD over DVD.
I will very likely buy one or two full price movies over the first few months the PSP is released here, just for the novelty of them. But if the prices are not coming to go down (which I heavily doubt), I'll rather buy them on DVD's with full surround sound and better picture.
If they release some TV series, I might buy them for PSP as somehow I've thought my hometheater is going to waste with 4:3 picture and 2.0 stereo sound.
I will very likely buy one or two full price movies over the first few months the PSP is released here, just for the novelty of them. But if the prices are not coming to go down (which I heavily doubt), I'll rather buy them on DVD's with full surround sound and better picture.
If they release some TV series, I might buy them for PSP as somehow I've thought my hometheater is going to waste with 4:3 picture and 2.0 stereo sound.
OUCH. Suicide for the format IMO
Flippin heck.
Personally, i think UMD movies will never take off, and i also think that Sony should just bloody focus on the games for PSP.. Oh and RELEAE IT IN THE UK AND DROP THE PRICE for god's sake!
Personally, i think UMD movies will never take off, and i also think that Sony should just bloody focus on the games for PSP.. Oh and RELEAE IT IN THE UK AND DROP THE PRICE for god's sake!
What do the film companies have to say about the UMD movie prices?
Has the price bracket been decided, and locked solely by Sony, or is it a result of some collaborative "research" between Sony and.... Columbia
Has the price bracket been decided, and locked solely by Sony, or is it a result of some collaborative "research" between Sony and.... Columbia
TekkenMaster
Newcomer
The price tag can only be justified if the possibility of psp streaming it to the ps3 through wifi allows you to watch it on tv is true.
PC-Engine said:
Well, i think Sony can keep themselves happy by releasing the movies they have in exclusive, like the Spiderman movies and other big blockbusters. They don't really need other companies to release movies on UMD. LOTR trilogy won't be on UMD cause it belongs to Newline (EDITED), unless they reach an agreement with Sony. And even then who on earth would be watching 3 to 9 hours of LOTR on a PSP!!? U'd be paralised from the neck down by the end.
TekkenMaster said:
And people will buy PS3 which plays DVDs and Blueray movies to... play low-res UMD movies on their TV with stereo sound!! Makes sense!! :?
TekkenMaster said:
But would the image quality be better than DVD? Would someone buy a few UMD movies from a vey limited selection at $20-$28 just so they can watch it on their PSPs and later watch it on their tvs with inferior audio and video compared to DVDs? Why not just buy the DVD from an enormous collection at $15 and rip it to MS?
Oh lb, a slight correction. LOTR is Newline Cinema ie Warner Bros. Disney owns Miramax IIRC.
Panajev2001a
Veteran
london-boy said:
You seem not to pay attention to things... 1.8 GB with MPEG4 AVC (people playing with PSP right now cannot use AVC for encoding it seems... only UMD Video currently works with MPEG4 AVC).. do you think you really need 1.8 GB with MPEG4 AVC compression (and ATRAC3+ compressed audio) to store only about 2 hours of movie at the resolution of 480x272
?AFAIK, UMD Video specs go up to 720x480 (which is 480p in 16:9 format) if you did not hear it the first time
.Still, these prices are a little bit steeper than IÃ d would have wanted them to be.
Panajev2001a said:london-boy said:
You seem not to pay attention to things... 1.8 GB with MPEG4 AVC (people playing with PSP right now cannot use AVC for encoding it seems... only UMD Video currently works with MPEG4 AVC).. do you think you really need 1.8 GB with MPEG4 AVC compression (and ATRAC3+ compressed audio) to store only about 2 hours of movie at the resolution of 480x272
AFAIK, UMD Video specs go up to 720x480 (which is 480p in 16:9 format) if you did not hear it the first time
Still, these prices are a little bit steeper than IÃ d would have wanted them to be.
People still will find it easier and much cheaper (especially if rented) to just pop in their DVD (or BDROM) movies and watch the damn thing.
TekkenMaster
Newcomer
You can't use your tv to watch dvd on the train can you?
Panajev2001a
Veteran
TekkenMaster said:
You can't use your tv to watch dvd on the train can you?
Memory Sticks Pro Duo and Memory Stick Duo are formats supported by the PSP
.I have a great idea for distributing movies for PSP in anddition to UMD's.
Memorysticks.
You would not download a movie to memstick on the go via WiFi, nor from a PC or other stationary loading place, as that would be too slow.
But you'd buy them from a vending machine like bubblegum sticks
But the movie would cost $200 if you got a 1GB stick with it!
No, because you pay the movie with a 1GB Memorystick (+ some dollars for the content)!
The machine just gives you a new memstick, with a preloaded movie in it in exchange for your empty stick.
The Memorystick movies could of course be sold in normal stores too.
Of course you could buy the whole memstick + movie with money, but it would cost you then $200, but the next time you bought a movie, you'd give back the previously bought memstick, from which you'd of course have copied the contents to your PC for later use.
Great idea, isn't it
Memorysticks.
You would not download a movie to memstick on the go via WiFi, nor from a PC or other stationary loading place, as that would be too slow.
But you'd buy them from a vending machine like bubblegum sticks
But the movie would cost $200 if you got a 1GB stick with it!
No, because you pay the movie with a 1GB Memorystick (+ some dollars for the content)!
The machine just gives you a new memstick, with a preloaded movie in it in exchange for your empty stick.
The Memorystick movies could of course be sold in normal stores too.
Of course you could buy the whole memstick + movie with money, but it would cost you then $200, but the next time you bought a movie, you'd give back the previously bought memstick, from which you'd of course have copied the contents to your PC for later use.
Great idea, isn't it
TekkenMaster
Newcomer
rabidrabbit said:I have a great idea for distributing movies for PSP in anddition to UMD's.
Memorysticks.
You would not download a movie to memstick on the go via WiFi, nor from a PC or other stationary loading place, as that would be too slow.
But you'd buy them from a vending machine like bubblegum sticks
But the movie would cost $200 if you got a 1GB stick with it!
No, because you pay the movie with a 1GB Memorystick (+ some dollars for the content)!
The machine just gives you a new memstick, with a preloaded movie in it in exchange for your empty stick.
The Memorystick movies could of course be sold in normal stores too.
Of course you could buy the whole memstick + movie with money, but it would cost you then $200, but the next time you bought a movie, you'd give back the previously bought memstick, from which you'd of course have copied the contents to your PC for later use.
Great idea, isn't it
Indeed, go patent it.
IMHO not even then. 1,8GB storage is only 1/5 of a DVD9, the resolution of an UMD movie is optimized for the PSP's screen resolution and is also inferior to DVD's best. I guess no 5.1 sound or any other extras thanks to the limited storage space. Asking for the same price as a DVD is bit over the top, someone is overvaluing the portable aspect of UMD moviesTekkenMaster said:
