UMD

A google search revealed this:

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The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation

MUD?

It is indeed for the PSP (the playstation portable, not the consoles that hook up to a tv).

I have a PSP and got spiderman 2 on PSP in the bundle with it. Quality is pretty good on the PSP's screen, but I doubt it will look any good if it is blown up to anything much larger than that. I'm not sure if they are going to do that well since due to quality reasons they are only good for watching on the move and you can take a film from DVD and downgrading the quality fit a couple onto a 1 gig memory stick and the quality is fine on the PSP's small screen.

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Originally posted by Stephen B:
A google search revealed this:

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The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation

That's "universal" in the sense that only Sony use it on PSPs then? Kind of like "World Series" I suppose

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That's "universal" in the sense that only Sony use it on PSPs then? Kind of like "World Series" I suppose

I'm not sure how far your tongue is in your cheek, but device wise then it is even worse than the world series (at least a Canadian team has an very outside chance of winning the world series!). I think the universal term is to be applied to the content, it could hold a game, a film, music or whatever really.

I think the theory behind the World Series is that America is theoretically the best country in the world at baseball, since it was invented there. Therefore the best team in America is the best in the world according to this reasoning.

This doesn't actually work if you have ever seen those Olympic things they show on TV every couple of years...

On the other hand, I'm almost totally certain that in Sony's mind, they are in fact the universe. Sony just loves to invent a proprietary format (good or bad, doesn't matter) and force people to buy their products to use things in this format. It works sometimes if you have a marketing department with the grunt to back it up. Or if you own a couple movie studios...

Plenty of crappy Sony formats are still hanging around because of this. Memory Stick? S/PDIF? Hell, their old Network Walkman player didn't even play MP3. You had to use Sony's propietary format just to listen to your own damn music. Thank goodness consumers didn't play THAT game.