michael000
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Wish that wasn't a compilation and was like a 2 UMD set or something. Would be the first UMD movie i'd buy regardless of price heh.
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Paramount to release UMD's
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Wish that wasn't a compilation and was like a 2 UMD set or something. Would be the first UMD movie i'd buy regardless of price heh.
MrAngryFace
Banned
Buffy/Angel on UMD would be haha AWESOME!@
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
acklame said:awesome, so the studios that are on board are now:
Columbia, Disney, Universal, Fox, Paramount
that's everyone in hollywood except warner
Your post made me think about what the videogame industry will look like in 10 years
MGM joins the fun
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2005-05-22-handheld-movies_x.htm
Handheld movies are hot
Frederick Green likes his DVD. But after watching Spider-Man 2 on his new PlayStation Portable (PSP), he's eager to watch more movies on the little handheld game player. "The graphics are great," says the 37-year-old Fairlawn, Ohio, resident.
Green's enthusiasm may be spreading. Though the handheld PSP, launched in March, is considered primarily a gaming device, Hollywood studios are aggressively releasing movies on the PSP's proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD), a 21/4-inch disc encased in a protective plastic shell.
Five of the six major studios are on board. The latest to click in: Paramount and MGM. Only Warner Bros. continues to sit out.
More than 70 UMD titles are in stores or are scheduled to arrive in the coming months. "No other format has gotten this much software support since DVD was launched eight years ago," notes analyst Tom Adams of Adams Media Research.
Paramount today announces 11 titles, including releases from fellow Viacom divisions Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV, making Paramount the first studio to bring TV shows to UMD. The first batch, due Aug. 9, consists of Team America: World Police, Coach Carter and Without a Paddle. Sahara, The Italian Job and MTV's Viva la Bam: Volume 1 follow Aug. 30. Coming later are SpongeBob SquarePants the Movie and compilation UMDs of Chappelle's Show, Ren & Stimpy, South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants TV episodes.
Thomas Lesinski, president of worldwide home entertainment for Paramount Pictures, says the titles were chosen to fit the "key demographics for PSP," which is teens and young-adult males.
MGM, now partly owned by Sony, will release its first batch of four titles Sept. 13: Beauty Shop, Be Cool, Stargate: Atlantis and Bulletproof Monk.
Benjamin Feingold, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the first studio to supply movies on UMD, says it was always Sony's intent that the PSP be more than a game player. Releasing movies for the PSP, he says, allows studios to "establish a beachhead in the portable, mobile market."
Feingold says that as people spend more and more time with cell phones, personal digital assistants and other portable devices, "it's important for our industry to have movies available."
Since PSP was launched, more than 1.2 million units have sold. Sony's Feingold projects that within 12 months, 6 million to 8 million PSP machines will be in North American households.
Analysts including Adams say that although UMD will never be as ubiquitous as DVD (more than 65 million households own DVD players), the market could grow to 25 million or even 30 million households.
UMD movies are carried by all the big discount and electronics chains, from Wal-Mart and Target to Best Buy and Circuit City. They're for sale at big music chains such as Trans World Entertainment and Musicland, and dedicated game chains Game Stop and EB Games.
Two UMD movies have now sold more than 100,000 copies each: Sony's House of Flying Daggers and Resident Evil 2, both released April 19. Sony's Feingold calls the sales tally "remarkable," noting that it took nine months for the first DVD title, Air Force One, to cross the 100,000-unit mark.
UMD's success on the movie front appears to be coming at the expense of the Warner-initiated Mini-DVD, a three-inch disc that can be played on regular DVD players as well as a dedicated handheld unit from CyberHome. Last January, Fox, Paramount and Universal joined Warner in supporting the Mini. But after an unsuccessful test at Best Buy, all three bowed out. Warner is giving the Mini one last shot with another test at Target.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/gear/2005-05-22-handheld-movies_x.htm
Handheld movies are hot
Frederick Green likes his DVD. But after watching Spider-Man 2 on his new PlayStation Portable (PSP), he's eager to watch more movies on the little handheld game player. "The graphics are great," says the 37-year-old Fairlawn, Ohio, resident.
Green's enthusiasm may be spreading. Though the handheld PSP, launched in March, is considered primarily a gaming device, Hollywood studios are aggressively releasing movies on the PSP's proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD), a 21/4-inch disc encased in a protective plastic shell.
Five of the six major studios are on board. The latest to click in: Paramount and MGM. Only Warner Bros. continues to sit out.
More than 70 UMD titles are in stores or are scheduled to arrive in the coming months. "No other format has gotten this much software support since DVD was launched eight years ago," notes analyst Tom Adams of Adams Media Research.
Paramount today announces 11 titles, including releases from fellow Viacom divisions Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV, making Paramount the first studio to bring TV shows to UMD. The first batch, due Aug. 9, consists of Team America: World Police, Coach Carter and Without a Paddle. Sahara, The Italian Job and MTV's Viva la Bam: Volume 1 follow Aug. 30. Coming later are SpongeBob SquarePants the Movie and compilation UMDs of Chappelle's Show, Ren & Stimpy, South Park and SpongeBob SquarePants TV episodes.
Thomas Lesinski, president of worldwide home entertainment for Paramount Pictures, says the titles were chosen to fit the "key demographics for PSP," which is teens and young-adult males.
MGM, now partly owned by Sony, will release its first batch of four titles Sept. 13: Beauty Shop, Be Cool, Stargate: Atlantis and Bulletproof Monk.
Benjamin Feingold, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the first studio to supply movies on UMD, says it was always Sony's intent that the PSP be more than a game player. Releasing movies for the PSP, he says, allows studios to "establish a beachhead in the portable, mobile market."
Feingold says that as people spend more and more time with cell phones, personal digital assistants and other portable devices, "it's important for our industry to have movies available."
Since PSP was launched, more than 1.2 million units have sold. Sony's Feingold projects that within 12 months, 6 million to 8 million PSP machines will be in North American households.
Analysts including Adams say that although UMD will never be as ubiquitous as DVD (more than 65 million households own DVD players), the market could grow to 25 million or even 30 million households.
UMD movies are carried by all the big discount and electronics chains, from Wal-Mart and Target to Best Buy and Circuit City. They're for sale at big music chains such as Trans World Entertainment and Musicland, and dedicated game chains Game Stop and EB Games.
Two UMD movies have now sold more than 100,000 copies each: Sony's House of Flying Daggers and Resident Evil 2, both released April 19. Sony's Feingold calls the sales tally "remarkable," noting that it took nine months for the first DVD title, Air Force One, to cross the 100,000-unit mark.
UMD's success on the movie front appears to be coming at the expense of the Warner-initiated Mini-DVD, a three-inch disc that can be played on regular DVD players as well as a dedicated handheld unit from CyberHome. Last January, Fox, Paramount and Universal joined Warner in supporting the Mini. But after an unsuccessful test at Best Buy, all three bowed out. Warner is giving the Mini one last shot with another test at Target.
Myoclonic Jerk
Member
why do they support this shit?
inpHilltr8r
Member
Commuters. [edit] DVD portables suck at playing DVDs, and don't do anything else.
SolidSnakex
Member
I don't know why so many people are surprised that UMD movies are selling. Those GBA videos sold well too. There's a big market out there for this stuff.
Wow, I can't believe two UMD movies have already sold 100,000. I didn't think all of them combined would have tallied 200k. It's even more surprising, considering HoFD is like friggin $30, and how most places I've seen don't really have very extensive shelf space for UMD movies. Then again, HoFD is one of the very few titles in the library that is currently worth watching, but still. Very surprising.
Anyway, Spongebob Squarepants the movie will probably be my first post-Spider-Man UMD. I would buy Chappell too, if they offer the entire season in one package. I hope TV stuff isn't going to be following the same route as the Samurai Champloo packs, I would've bought that too if they were season packs, even for $30.
Anyway, Spongebob Squarepants the movie will probably be my first post-Spider-Man UMD. I would buy Chappell too, if they offer the entire season in one package. I hope TV stuff isn't going to be following the same route as the Samurai Champloo packs, I would've bought that too if they were season packs, even for $30.
SolidSnakex
Member
Jonnyram said:Does anyone actually have any sales data for UMDs? I'm not sure that they are selling well at all. I don't think those GBA videos sold well either. But I guess it depends what your definition of good sales is
"Sold through more than 1.6 million units of Game Boy Advance Video titles and have sold in approximately an additional 2 million units to satisfy holiday demand."
That was from Majesco. I'd say that's pretty damn good.
SolidSnakex
Member
demi said:
A scene from Haute Tension (High Tension in the US). It'll be released in theatres June 10th.
http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/high_tension/
SolidSnakex
Member
demi said:
It might look like one, but its definetly not surprisingly enough. Its just one f'cked movie from beginning to end. Lots of gore.
Although some of the US version is being edited to prevent a NC-17 rating.Tabris said:
And I think that's it in a nutshell. Even if you do know how to rip and encode stuff, it still takes time and effort, and it also takes up valuable real estate on your memory stick. Just buying UMD's is relatively cheap, requires no additional time investment, and doesn't take up memory stick space--just grab the movie UMD('s) you want, stuff them into your briefcase/backpack/wherever along with your PSP, and you're set. They're convenient. For some of us, the savings in time and effort is worth dropping an extra $15-20 here and there. *shrug*
michael000
Banned
I'd buy plenty of UMD's at the right price. I'm sure i'm like most people in that 90% of the stuff i'd consider buying on UMD i already own on DVD. That being said though i honestly wouldn't mind rebuying due to convenience and quality but i just refuse to spend more than $10 unless it's an A-list movie in my book.
At their current price point, they're still too expensive to just "buy on a whim" imo. Can't tell you how many times i've walked into a store with no intention of buying a DVD and walked out with one just cause it was a deal. Hell i walked into circuit city today just to check out TVs and walked out with 3 dvds cause they were $10 each lol.
Funny how much of a difference $5 is. If i buy something that's $10+tax in my mind it's $10 spent and that's pocket change, but if i buy somethign that's $15+tax my mind racks that up as $20 and that's when the "damn that was a waste of money" thoughts come up :lol.
At their current price point, they're still too expensive to just "buy on a whim" imo. Can't tell you how many times i've walked into a store with no intention of buying a DVD and walked out with one just cause it was a deal. Hell i walked into circuit city today just to check out TVs and walked out with 3 dvds cause they were $10 each lol.
Funny how much of a difference $5 is. If i buy something that's $10+tax in my mind it's $10 spent and that's pocket change, but if i buy somethign that's $15+tax my mind racks that up as $20 and that's when the "damn that was a waste of money" thoughts come up :lol.
Myoclonic Jerk
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watching movies on a small screen knocks off 4 points of the rating automatically..
let alone playing them on PSP!!??
EDIT: how much UMD's go for?
let alone playing them on PSP!!??
EDIT: how much UMD's go for?
Look at all the hate(and so little of it is actually where it should be focused at... the price point)... anyway I'm glad to see the studio support, just not happy with the price. Flying Daggers is sweet... can't believe so many people are buying it at that price though...
Leatherface
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demi said:
Awesome horror movie btw...
i guess it shouldn't come as a total shock that UMDs are selling pretty well. iTunes has surpassed a million downloads a while ago. i guess there's really a market for people who are willing to pay for portable entertainment that's convenient, versus using more versatile, cheaper, "hi-fi" traditional mediums like CDs and DVDs and converting the media to the device. i know it's not the ideal example, seeing as how iTunes plays into the instant gratifcation aspect, but parallels between the two can be drawn.
Personally, i'm waiting for prices of UMDs to drop before i start buying them. Twenty dollars is just way too much for a movie i can get on DVD for ten or twelve dollars, and convert to MS. The hassle of transcoding is definitely there, but i'm willing to take a slight quality drop and the time necessary to transcode files versus spending twenty or twenty-five dollars to watch a movie.
Of course, if rumors of UMDs being encoded at 740x480 are true and UMD players become a reality, i'll feel slightly less like a sucker for having bought into a proprietary format.
Personally, i'm waiting for prices of UMDs to drop before i start buying them. Twenty dollars is just way too much for a movie i can get on DVD for ten or twelve dollars, and convert to MS. The hassle of transcoding is definitely there, but i'm willing to take a slight quality drop and the time necessary to transcode files versus spending twenty or twenty-five dollars to watch a movie.
Of course, if rumors of UMDs being encoded at 740x480 are true and UMD players become a reality, i'll feel slightly less like a sucker for having bought into a proprietary format.
Outcast2004
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I'm with the majority.. who's buying this shit? It's only good in one thing and in some cases costs TWICE as much as the DVD release.
Why do I have a feeling these are for people not smart enough to put the movies & TV shows on their mem stick.
It's really not that hard....
Hell I don't know ANYONE that has a PSP anyway (I'll be getting one soon as a gift to my self for anew job HOPEFLLY)
Why do I have a feeling these are for people not smart enough to put the movies & TV shows on their mem stick.
It's really not that hard....
Hell I don't know ANYONE that has a PSP anyway (I'll be getting one soon as a gift to my self for anew job HOPEFLLY)
WrathOfOtaibah
Banned
There are many places that sell these UMDs for much cheaper than $30. So that argument gets tossed out the window.
Finally the UMD gets some good shit on it:
Chappelle's Show
South Park
Sin City
Finally the UMD gets some good shit on it:
Chappelle's Show
South Park
Sin City
Agent Icebeezy
Welcome beautful toddler, Madison Elizabeth, to the horde!
I need to buy one of these damn things sooner or later. I held one for the first time the other day, it screamed buy me, but I got X360 games to get. I'll come back to it eventually. Anyways, with all the PSP has going for it, if it doesn't surpass the DS in sales, that would be a big disappointment.
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
xsarien said:
Well, when I say 14.99 Max, I mean retail max.
IE, you could order the same movie on amazon for 9.99-11.99
New releases would be 14.99, and older movies would be 9.99..
That would be.. in a perfect world :lol
Outcast2004
Banned
The Experiment said:
Um.. no it doesn't throw it out the window. Your average retailer has the movies anywhere from 19.99 to 29.99 RETAIL.
That's the basis for this.
It's bullshit prices for STRIPPED DOWN movies that are good on ONLY the PSP.
Awesome. I'm not gonna say I told you so but I knew UMD movies would sell decently by looking at the Game Boy Video sales.
I wouldn't be surprised if the power of the UMD movies alone help propell the PSP past the DS in North America.
BTW not everyone is charing $29.99 for HoFD. Target is charging $19.99 for it. I want to know where retailers are going to start stocking all these UMD movies. They should just make a new section out by the DVDs.
I wouldn't be surprised if the power of the UMD movies alone help propell the PSP past the DS in North America.
BTW not everyone is charing $29.99 for HoFD. Target is charging $19.99 for it. I want to know where retailers are going to start stocking all these UMD movies. They should just make a new section out by the DVDs.
WrathOfOtaibah
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Amazon.com:
Hellboy - 13.97
Resident Evil 2 - 13.97
XXX - 13.97
Once Upon A Time In Mexico - 13.97
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I'm not saying all movies are this cheap but cheap UMDs are out there.
Hellboy - 13.97
Resident Evil 2 - 13.97
XXX - 13.97
Once Upon A Time In Mexico - 13.97
Brand New
I'm not saying all movies are this cheap but cheap UMDs are out there.
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