No more UMD movies for PSP?

Choice quotes from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060330/tc_nm/universalmediadisc_dc_4

Exactly a year after it was launched in the United States, the Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a hand-held movie-viewing device might be numbered.

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"No one's watching movies on PSP," said the president of one of the six major studios' home entertainment divisions. "It's a game player, period."

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"I think a lot of people are ripping content and sticking it onto the device rather than purchasing," he said.

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Yet, at the same time, people actually seem to be downloading a fair amount of video for the 5G iPod from iTMS. Makes you wonder.... I guess we'll see when/if theatrical movies ever show up on iTMS.

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grapes911 said:

We have a thread about this over here. The other thread seems to be more about comparing Blu-ray to UMD though.

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Missed it thanks!

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OnceUGoMac said:

I took a survey after buting a few UMD films, and one of the questions was regarding bundling UMDs with DVDs.

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Sounds similar to the download approach in the UK that was mentioned here a few weeks ago, download the movie now, get the DVD by mail.

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