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Chienworks wrote on 4/24/2006, 3:22 AM
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apit34356 wrote on 4/24/2006, 3:58 AM
The TV out for the PSP is long overdue, but this was a marketing choice that was for the movie studios that feared coping or that it would effect dvds sales to college crowd.
Xander wrote on 4/24/2006, 4:22 AM
As has been mentioned before on the forums, if you don't give consumers what they want, then products fail. This is just another classic example - a prorioty format which nobody can use that's more expensive than existing formats. DVD to Memorystick was inevitable.
apit34356 wrote on 4/24/2006, 5:04 AM
Xander, I agree. I think UMD should be a vegas format, with collapse of the retail of movies maybe sony will announce this at NAB,( since they known about the marketing problem for over six months).
BrianStanding wrote on 4/24/2006, 9:32 AM
Man, when will Sony learn that today's consumers don't like proprietary formats?

They blew it with MiniDisk, they blew it with ATRAC, they blew it with their DSR-DU1 hard disk video recorder, they blew it with DVD+R, they're blowing it with memory stick -- both with the format itself, and with the insane naming conventions for any media files stored on them, and now they're blowing it again with UMD!

I can just see them set limits on Blu-Ray that requires that you only record with a $1000 Sony DVD burner, and have to name all the files after Sir Howard Stringer's maternal grandmother's pet cat.

In every single case, Sony may have had the superior technology, but set so many limits on people's ability to use it, that consumers ignored it in favor of standard, open formats like mp3, mp4, avi, etc.

I understand Sony likes to lead, not follow. But they're really a little perverse about always heading off in their own direction.