Fair shout - but I don't think I've ever been on a 21 hour train ride, nor do I have any plans to do so in the near future, so outside that extremely unlikely scenario, when would I watch a UMD movie? Besides, how often do you make that trip? If it's a monthly thing then it makes sense. If it isn't then I don't think I'd feel it was worthwhile spending the $20 on a UMD disc. But like I said, I'd be tempted to get the DVD+UMD combo if I was buying the DVD anyway and it only cost ~$4 on top.
Now if you could connect your PSP to the television like you can with most dedicated portable media players then this would be less of an issue. I could actually see myself purchasing umd movies if it was possible to watch them on the big screen with out modding my PSP.
I understand. I would invest in more consoles and games, but it will end up spending too much money... and it's difficult to find mint quality stuff down here. I was trying to find a japanese grey Saturn, mint and boxed with at least one game. The "best" i could found was a grey Saturn, very beaten upm no box, with region switch... and the guy was asking 150 dollars OH:
Honestly I cant find a good explanation for not having UMDR discs. Is not the GDROM that was a custom job, the UMD is (sopposed) a miniDVD like those on the GC. Shit, I saw a guy who made GODs for the GC by cutting a normal DVD with a hot iron. Is anyone here goin to tell me that a stupid little DVD inside a crappy plastic caddy is too difficult to copy? Anyways, about the "innovation" issue, is just a way fanboys can say sony is "teh shit" without giving actual topics about the subject (just like casuals do). Obviously the 8,16 and 32 bits were more innovative, becos at the time the market was too small and the content many times less than today. So anything that came to the scene could be considered "innovative".
here you go: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/ECMA-365.pdf now go and make some UMD-R. ;P and about the miniDVD + hot iron.. first of all I would be very amazed if that actually worked and second, why didn't he just buy some miniDVD-R discs?
Those worked alright, but the dude said after some use the thing just cracks itself open. And he said he coulndt find DVDs were he lived.
