According to the Financial Times, Sony is in talks with "Amazon.com and film download sites such as Movielink and CinemaNow" to complete a movie download service that would be set to launch sometime early next year. The move would certainly signal the real end of the UMD format and be the ultimate hint at the PSP 2 having a hard drive or flash memory -- though most of us already assumed that.
If you're worried about space on your PSP for a movie, well perhaps battery life should be more of a concern. Why? Because if you're packin' a big memory stick, then you'll be good to go. According to the article, Sony will distribute a "4Gb memory stick capable of storing 10 feature films."
Bye bye UMD, hello digital download. How long until Blu-ray suffers the same fate?
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12:03 PM on 12.18.2006
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So what, that's 2008?
They could even use the energy saved for a touch screen and a second display and elevate portable entertainment out of the handheld-gaming ghetto.
The UMD, though, that thing can go to hell.
I am not at all appealed by the prospect of loosing all my movie downloads when I shelf a system.
Quite the dig, I think if anything, both formats are doomed to failure considering the sorely lacking number of HD sets in U.S. homes currently. In 3-4 years, we may see a format that people are willing to dump their current DVD collections for, but right now I put my money on HD upconverting DVD players which will improvement the look of the movies people currently own more than any overpriced, underperforming HD format that is trickling out movies at a snail's pace.