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New Line Home Entertainment is the latest Hollywood studio to commit to Sony's proprietary Universal Media Disc, which plays movies and video games on the PlayStation Portable device.

Its first six titles will go on sale Oct. 4 for $19.98 each: "Elf," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (2003), "The Butterfly Effect," "Freddy vs. Jason," "Blade" and "Secondhand Lions."

With more than 1.3 million units sold in the U.S., home entertainment studios are embracing the UMD format. Of the majors, only Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and DreamWorks Home Entertainment have yet to commit.

More than 130 UMD movies are slated to ship this year, which tops the number of games heading to Sony's portable entertainment device.

"It wouldn't surprise me if PSP movies end up with a 3-to-1 tie ratio on PSP," Arcadia Research video game analyst John Taylor said. "To date, the game tie ratio is around 2.5 games to every one PSP hardware unit sold, which is somewhat lower than expected -- in part because of the availability of movies."

 

[Wario64]

that's some crazy shit.

 

[Nick]

Unless I see a surge of like... 100 more UMD Videos this year, I call BS on the slated 130 UMD's by the end of the year. Just give me Fight Club and Napoleon Dynamite and we'll call it even.

 

[Sho Nuff]

"It wouldn't surprise me if PSP movies end up with a 3-to-1 tie ratio on PSP," Arcadia Research video game analyst John Taylor said. "

Buh?

 

[Geek]

I miss Earth.

Bizarro World isn't funny anymore.

 

[Striek]

....
130 UMD movies? Is Sony going to open this format up? Are we going to see standalone UMD players? I just can't see the PSP userbase supporting that scale of UMD movies.

 

[Mrbob]

Unless I see a surge of like... 100 more UMD Videos this year, I call BS on the slated 130 UMD's by the end of the year. Just give me Fight Club and Napoleon Dynamite and we'll call it even.

I don't think it is BS. starting in July there are like 5 UMD movies coming out a week.

130 UMD movies? Is Sony going to open this format up? Are we going to see standalone UMD players?

They already have. Anyone can make a UMD movie player.

Seeing UMD movies sell so well makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. The kicker is that games are selling well too.

 

[Amir0x]

where is my LOTR at

 

[Mrbob]

People should be happy UMD movies are selling well. It'll lead to a price reduction in titles. May not happen this year but it will happen.

 

[Rhindle]

I give it six months before UMD movies exceed game sales. This has been foreseen, and it shall be.

Although, the 2.5/1 tie ratio for games is pretty damn impressive as well.

 

[Tiktaalik]

I totally thought UMD movies were going to bomb

 

[Yusaku]

People should be happy UMD movies are selling well. It'll lead to a price reduction in titles. May not happen this year but it will happen.

Why lower prices if titles are selling well at existing prices?

 

[Mrbob]

Why lower prices if titles are selling well at existing prices?

More competition plus greatest hits line of UMD movies.

 

[JPRaup]

UMD is a succes, I sensed it

 

[Mrbob]

UMD is a succes, I sensed it

 

[PS2 KID]

I also thought UMD's would bomb (unless they released an UMD burner to spread the format), along with Nintendogs and Brain Training. What is happening to gaming?

 

[goodcow]

:lol

 

[Reilly]

If you think it's big now, wait until the PSP is more affordable.

edit: I could see other companies releasing portable UMD players.

 

[JPRaup]

If you think it's big now, wait until the PSP is more affordable.

edit: I could see other companies releasing portable UMD players.

is UMD resolution too small for standard TVs

like if ps3 had a UMD slot or something along those lines

 

[SolidSnakex]

I totally thought UMD movies were going to bomb

If you check old threads you'll see quite a few people felt that they wouldn't sell. That's why you see so much anger in the new threads because they are selling.

 

[FightyF]

Great news. I really hope my fave movies will end up on there. I mean, at least the blockbuster movies...they gotta be on there. I'm not so interested in some of these titles being mentioned...it's not like they did so well at theatres and DVDs to begin with. Plus, I already got a lot of the ones mentioned on DVD...

Announce new movies...and you'll get my attention. Batman Begins DVD and UMD simultaneous launch...that would be awesome.

 

[Ponn]

Great news. I really hope my fave movies will end up on there. I mean, at least the blockbuster movies...they gotta be on there. I'm not so interested in some of these titles being mentioned...it's not like they did so well at theatres and DVDs to begin with. Plus, I already got a lot of the ones mentioned on DVD...

Announce new movies...and you'll get my attention. Batman Begins DVD and UMD simultaneous launch...that would be awesome.

They seem to be releasing the perfect movies on UMD format for their targeted audience. Look at the selection and it really screams gaming geek. Except of course Are we there Yet and Hitch (though I actually enjoyed Hitch, not enough to buy it on UMD). And you will see more and more day and dates with DVD. Look at Sin City.

 

[Reilly]

is UMD resolution too small for standard TVs

like if ps3 had a UMD slot or something along those lines

Not sure about the resolution (I don't own one yet), but I know that the movies are 16:9 standard, so it might not work on regular TVs? Also, if the PS3 played UMD movies, Sony would basically be competing against itself. I don't think Sony want's people choosing UMD over their DVD's and Blu-Ray cds. I think Sony wants to keep the UMD format protable. Perhaps that's why the PSP has no video out.

 

[JPRaup]

Anyone pick up BHD today?
Im really looking forward to it, also Sin City looks awesome

I want:
entire seasons of:
Family Guy
Arrested Development
Chappelle Show
The Office (US and UK)

Movies:
Boondock Saints
Collateral
Die Hard
Fight Club
Garden State
The Incredibles
All the LOTR EE
Meet The Parents
Memento
Office Space
Old School
Snatch
X2

Any of these Rumored or Official??

 

[DarienA]

I now own about 4-5 UMD movies... I plan on continuing to pick them up either via ebay or other discount places until the price goes down... do I care if I already own the movies? No.. not really and I actually do own all the movies on DVD already...

 

[Ponn]

Anyone pick up BHD today?
Im really looking forward to it, also Sin City looks awesome

I want:
entire seasons of:
Family Guy
Arrested Development
Chappelle Show
The Office (US and UK)

Movies:
Boondock Saints
Collateral
Die Hard
Fight Club
Garden State
The Incredibles
All the LOTR EE
Meet The Parents
Memento
Office Space
Old School
Snatch
X2

Any of these Rumored or Official??

From www.thedigitalbits.com

UMD Movies for PSP Release Listupdated 7/12/05


ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT

8/23 - Halloween, Evil Dead, Time Bandits, Blood the Last Vampire, Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll

9/6 - Dead and Breakfast


BRENTWOOD HOME VIDEO

8/23 - The Best of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (5 episodes from Season 2)


BUENA VISTA

Now Available - National Treasure, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Reign of Fire, Kill Bill: Volume 1, HERO, King Arthur: Director's Cut, TRON, Hostage, Cursed

7/19 - Kill Bill: Volume 2, Gone in 60 Seconds: Director's Cut, From Dusk Till Dawn, Armageddon

8/16 - Sin City, Shaolin Soccer, The Rock, Coyote Ugly: Extended Cut

9/2 - Lost: The Pilot Episode

9/13 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy


EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT

8/30 - The Up in Smoke Tour, Marilyn Manson: Guns, God and Government, Busta Rhymes: Everything Remains Raw, Puddle of Mudd: Live at the Key Club - Striking That Familiar Chord, Snoop Dogg: Big Snoop Dogg's Puff Puff Pass Tour

Street Date TBA - Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Nirvana: Nevermind, Black Label Society: Boozed, Broozed & Broken Boned, Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland Classic Album, Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast Classic Album, Metallica: Metallica Classic Album


GENEON ENTERTAINMENT

Now Available - Appleseed, Samurai Champloo (the first 2 episodes of each series)

8/16 - Helsing, Gungrave (the first 2 episodes of each series)


GLAY'Z (ADULT - JAPAN)

Now Available - Goku Honban Tachibana Riko, Kyonyuu Nurse Amai Mitsu, Kaneshiro Anna: Koukyuu Soap Jou

7/22 - BiBody Ero-Terrorist Noa, Loli-Nanpa Special 5


H.M.P. (ADULT - JAPAN)

7/16 - H.M.P. Countdown 2005, Syojokyu Miyako Hikaru, Hoshino Hikaru Best


IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

Now Available - Backyard, Beef, Bobbito's Basics to Boogie, Freshest Kids: A History of the B-Boy, The Hillz, Short Circuit, MC: Why We Do It, The Magic of Flight: IMAX, Jamie Foxx: I Might Need Security, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel - The Life of an Outlaw, Endless Summer, Godsmack: Live, One Love: The Game, The Life, Sisterhood, Thumb Wars/Thumbtanic Double Feature

7/26 - Beef II, Dreamscape, Galerians: Rion, Prince: Rave Un2 the Year 2000, Super Speedway: The Mach II Special Edition - IMAX, Vans Warped Tour

8/16 - I Got Five on It

8/23 - Hood of the Living Dead

8/30 - Artie Lange: It's the Whiskey Talkin', Deftones: Live in Hawaii - Music in High Places, Goo Goo Dolls: Live in Alaska - Music in High Places, Justice, Laffapalooza! #1, Larry the Cable Guy: Git-R-Done, U2: The Joshua Tree: Classic Albums

Street Date TBA - Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet, Witches of the Carribean, Taste of Chaos, Basket Case


LIONS GATE

Now Available - Terminator 2, The Punisher, National Lampoon's Van Wilder, SAW, Open Water

8/23 - Total Recall, Young Guns, Cabin Fever, House of the Dead, House of 1000 Corpses, Rambo: First Blood, Part II


MGM

9/13 - Be Cool, Beauty Shop, Stargate: Atlantis, Bulletproof Monk


PARAMOUNT

8/9 - Team America: World Police, Coach Carter, Without a Paddle

8/30 - Sahara, The Italian Job, Viva La Bam: Volume 1 (TV)

Street Date TBA - Tomb Raider, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, SpongeBob SquarePants: Volume 1 (TV), Chapelle's Show: Volume 1 (TV), Ren & Stimpy: Volume 1½-ish (TV), South Park: Volume 1 (TV)


SONY (COLUMBIA TRISTAR)

Now Available: Spider-Man 2 (initially bundled with some early PSP systems), xXx, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Hellboy: Director's Cut, Are We There Yet?, House of Flying Daggers, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Charlie's Angels, Hollow Man, Boogeyman, Hitch, Bad Boys, Daddy Day Care, The Grudge, Spider-Man: The New Animated Series - The Mutant Menace, Spider-Man 2, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Starship Troopers, Air Force One, Resident Evil, 7 Seconds, Black Hawk Down, You Got Served, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

7/19 - Man of the House

7/26 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Labyrinth, Steamboy: Director's Cut, The Dark Crystal, Not Another Teen Movie, xXx: State of the Union, Cowboy Be-Bop (movie)

8/2 - Ghostbusters, S.W.A.T., Guess Who

8/9 - Kung Fu Hustle, The Replacement Killers

8/16 - Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth, The Big Hit, Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

8/23 - Layer Cake, Snatch

9/20 - Mr. Deeds, Big Daddy

Street Date TBA - Stripes


20TH CENTURY FOX

Now Available - Napoleon Dynamite, I, Robot, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Predator, Super Troopers

9/27 - Robots, Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story


UNIVERSAL

7/26 - Van Helsing, The Rundown, Assault on Precinct 13, Dawn of the Dead: Unrated Director's Cut, The Chronicles of Riddick: Unrated Director's Cut, The Fast and the Furious

8/30 - American Pie, The Bourne Identity, Friday Night Lights

 

[Lord Error]

I give it six months before UMD movies exceed game sales. This has been foreseen, and it shall be.
That would be crazy. I think most people were forseeing that UMD movies would bomb.

I can see however how that buying them makes lots of sense for frequent travellers, or parents how want their kids to have something to watch in the car, for example. When you're paying $500 for a transatlantic flight ticket, paying $15 on top of that doesn't seem like much.

is UMD resolution too small for standard TVs

I'm pretty sure I've read UMD videos are encoded at the same resolution as standard DVDs, but MPEG4 compression allows them to be stored at smaller disc capacity.

 

[DarienA]

Shaolin Soccer? Replacement Killers? Kung Fu Hustle? Definitely picking those up among others.... I'd like to see House of Fury get a US DVD/UMD release.. it's a nice light flick with good camerawork and good martial arts sequences... the little kid who is the staff user... goddamn....

 

[JPRaup]

ok so nothing I wanted

I guess I can take the FG and Chappelle "volumes"
:lol

 

[kaching]

To date, the game tie ratio is around 2.5 games to every one PSP hardware unit sold, which is somewhat lower than expected...

Say what, John Taylor? What's the average tie ratio for a game system, 3-4 months into its life?

 

[FightyF]

They seem to be releasing the perfect movies on UMD format for their targeted audience. Look at the selection and it really screams gaming geek. Except of course Are we there Yet and Hitch (though I actually enjoyed Hitch, not enough to buy it on UMD). And you will see more and more day and dates with DVD. Look at Sin City.

Well if what you say is correct, that sounds like a good plan!

Sin City sounds awesome...I had no idea that was coming out.

Kung Fu Hustle...that too!

I do wish you could rent these as well...

 

[Attack You]

Reading this after reading the post in OT about how DVDs are under-performing make you go "Hmmm...".

 

[Mrbob]

Naw, it is more like studio execs have unrealistic expectations.

 

[acklame]

holy crap, 1.3 million

with New Line on board, hopefully we'll get LOTR soon
and seeing as how New Line is a division of Warner, maybe we'll see them hop on board soon too.

 

[Pimpwerx]

I too thought UMDs would bomb. There's still hope. PEACE.

 

[Trevelyon]

"7/22 - BiBody Ero-Terrorist Noa, Loli-Nanpa Special 5"

I gotta get that. :lol

 

[Alex Anderson]

1.3 million sold through to consumers or to retailers. That's what I want to know.

 

[MetatronM]

Unless I see a surge of like... 100 more UMD Videos this year, I call BS on the slated 130 UMD's by the end of the year. Just give me Fight Club and Napoleon Dynamite and we'll call it even.

Isn't Napoleon Dynamite already out?

 

[Drakken]

Isn't Napoleon Dynamite already out?

Yeah, that came out on the 5th, if my list is still correct.

I just counted all the US titles for 2005 (going by my list ). 182. :-O

That includes the album/music-related umds (stuff like "Nirvana: Nevermind Classic Album"), but even forgetting those, that's pretty crazy.

 

[Andy787]

They seem to be releasing the perfect movies on UMD format for their targeted audience. Look at the selection and it really screams gaming geek.

That is almost offensive. I would imagine, if anything, that the average geek actually has at least somewhat better taste than the average joe. That is the main reason why the success of UMD movies are surprising to me, because of the almost entirely disgusting selection of titles.

Anyway, now throw down the Lord of the Rings, bitches.

 

[mj1108]

1.3 million sold through to consumers or to retailers. That's what I want to know.

I'm guessing sold to retailers.

 

[chinch]

sold = shipped to retailers

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

Napoleon Dynamite is out. I know because I own it.

UMDs are really starting to come out and get good. I only own T2 and Napoleon Dynamite but there's a lot of good UMDs on that list. I will support this platform since I know there will be a DVD + UMD player coming soon so there's no reason to skip out. I'll probably snag Predator this week too.

From Ponn01's list, I want:

Team America
Man of the House
Not Another Teen Movie
American Pie
Dave Chappelle
Richard Pryor
Family Guy

At $19 or less, thats $140. Eh, not that bad. I know Disney has Sin City coming to it too.

 

[Ponn]

That is almost offensive. I would imagine, if anything, that the average geek actually has at least somewhat better taste than the average joe. That is the main reason why the success of UMD movies are surprising to me, because of the almost entirely disgusting selection of titles.

Anyway, now throw down the Lord of the Rings, bitches.

Lord of the Rings is really the only thing that list is missing besides Star Wars. Oh and Jaws. Seriously though, look how fast they got Tron out on UMD.

 

[The Bookerman]

Hmmm I thought New Line was Owned by Turner... thus a Warner company?

 

[happyfunball]

Don't these movies come with no special features or anything like you find on DVDs?

 

[Brofist]

I wish I had linked to the 10 or so threads where I've gotten reamed for suggesting UMD movies were gonna do well.

 

[Mrbob]

By the end of the year UMD movies is going to need their own section in the DVD department. If not sooner. Not going to be able to stick them in the game case with the games anymore! The boxes are small enough they could pack many of them in a section anyway.

 

[Flo_Evans]

amazing..

I could see myself buying a UMD movie if I was going on a trip. Actually, I am going on a cruise later this year - I'll probably pick one or two up^^

Speaking of... is there a release date for FF: advent children yet?

 

[sonycowboy]

1) Lower resolution (on the PSP screen anyway) than DVD
2) Higher Cost
3) Extras stripped out
4) Only works on a single platform

= HIT SUCCESS!

I thought it could be viable if they released the titles @ ~$10-$13 or so, but the new titles are $29.99 and the back catalog titles are $19.99 (MSRP), with many stores selling them for some discount from these (say $5 usually).

I guess the "portable" factor trumps all.