What Movies WOULD You Buy On UMD for PSP?

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"BC" <animusainthere@ihug.co.nzorami> wrote in message
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> "Android" <androvich@NOcomcastSPAM.net> wrote in message
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>> Some of us will never buy a UMD movie no matter what. Some will get a 1
>> or
>> 2 GB memory stick and rip a DVD to play off of it. But there has to be a
>> few of us who would buy a UMD movie if it were priced right and if it was
>> a
>> film worth owning in multiple formats. Assuming that there will one day
>> be
>> a UMD player for the home, what movie would you buy for $15 on UMD? And
>> would you be willing to pay $20 for it? Knowing that Sony wants to also
>> attract the non-gamer crowd, what films do you think they ought to
>> release
>> on UMD even if you would never buy them personally?
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> They should have extra PSP content available on these movie UMDs. Imagine
> having a zombie mini game on "Resident Evil" or "Dawn of The Dead", or a
> driving game on "The Itailian Job"? Or even having extra maps, costumes
> and such bonus material that would download from the UMB to the memory
> stick. Getting the "Spider-man 2" UMD for example might give you an extra
> costume and/or access to new villians for the PSP "Spider-man 2" game.
> That should increase the sales of the UMD movies, or at the very least
> increase the interest and number of rentals of these movies...
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I don't think they can fit any extra media on the disc. The movie already
takes up all the memory, I'm not certain but I think that is why you don't
get any outtakes or extras on the UMDs like you can get with DVDs.

 

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SDP81 wrote:
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> "massivegrooves" <massivegrooves@massivegrooves.net> wrote in message
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> > Paul Heslop wrote:
> >> SDP81 wrote:
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> >>
> >>>My thoughts exactly, just use a portable DVD player, then you won't have
> >>>to
> >>>worry about multiple formats and you get the extra features, you can get
> >>>some for less then 200 bucks nowadays and that is only half of a weekly
> >>>check for most people.
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> >>
> >> about £100 for low end models in the uk, which is very good compared
> >> to not too long ago... in fact I have just seen one for about £70
> >> online, don't know how that translates into dollars... er... online
> >> conversion says $133.544!
> >>
> >
> >
> > There are some floating around out there in the $100-$120 range...not the
> > best by any means though. But they are out there.
> >
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> Im sure the worst portable DVD player is better than PSP at playing movies
> ;p

Mind, the disks are a little bigger too :O)
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SDP81 <@wowway.com> wrote:

> Im sure the worst portable DVD player is better than PSP at playing movies
> ;p

My wife got a portable DVD player as a gift a few years back. It's one of
those $150 models. It's barely adequate. Subtitles don't show up on it
at all (even the FBI warning is almost too fuzzy to read.) The PSP has
much better screen than this thing, even though the PSP's screen is
smaller.

 

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Glenn Shaw <togusa@nospamcomnet.cast> wrote:

> OTOH, when the prospect of anime on UMD was mentioned in
> rec.arts.anime.misc, some people seemed rather unimpressed:

Well, yeah. At $20, you can get the real DVD, rip it and put it on a
memory stick. They need to drop the price at least $10, preferably $15,
before I'd consider buying any content on UMD

Not to mention the fact that a lot of folks are downloading fan-subbed
stuff anyways...

 

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Doug Jacobs wrote:
> SDP81 <@wowway.com> wrote:
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>>Im sure the worst portable DVD player is better than PSP at playing movies
>>;p
>
>
> My wife got a portable DVD player as a gift a few years back. It's one of
> those $150 models. It's barely adequate. Subtitles don't show up on it
> at all (even the FBI warning is almost too fuzzy to read.) The PSP has
> much better screen than this thing, even though the PSP's screen is
> smaller.

I agree...most of the very low end DVD portable players I have seen are
not very good at all. And generally the PSP display looks much better.