ECMA International has accepted Sony's Universal Media Disc (UMD), which debuted earlier this year in the PlayStation Portable (PSP), as an international standard. The UMD, which has a storage capacity of 1.8GB and resembles a small DVD enclosed in a plastic case, is currently used by Sony to store PSP video games and movies. However, now that UMD has been accepted as a standard, we'll likely see the format move to other devices, including PCs, which could open up a new market for UMD-based media for PSPs. Currently, a wide range of movie companies support UMD, as well--certainly more than I had expected--but this week's news could lead to even more UMD-based movie releases in the future.
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Anonymous User June 26, 2005 (Article Rating: )
This is great news. Hopefully Micro$oft won't try to squash widespread acceptance of this format.
Anonymous User June 28, 2005 (Article Rating: )
widespread acceptance of the format?
uh.. yeah.. I see them everywhere.. question: is anyone buying them?
only about a million psp's sold in US..
Anonymous User June 29, 2005 (Article Rating: )
nerd
Anonymous User September 01, 2005 (Article Rating: )
"Current manufacturing lines are stretched to the max - Bob Hurley, with Sony DADC, says that Sony is churning out 200,000 UMDs a day and future capacity is expected to be 500,000 per day. 'Tiger Woods Golf is my personal favorite [game], but video has been surprisingly good to us,' says Hurley. In a few years Sony expect videos to be more than 60 percent of all UMD sales, with an expected 130 million UMDs being sold in 2008."
Anonymous User September 01, 2005 (Article Rating: )
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