PS3 Delayed Until November (American release date still unknown)

DailyTech ^ | 3/14/2006 | Brandon Hill

[BurbankKarl]

I wonder how this affects EA and RockStar and the like...everyone will be delaying purchases

[Callahan]

Sony keeps making the same mistake with their stupid proprietary formats including Memory Stick, UMD and now Blu-Ray.

[Thoro]

I've read some rumors online that movie studios are already starting to jump off the UMD bandwagon, so the PSP may be in for some trouble as well.

I thought it was obvious that the movie studios went overboard in their support for UMD. There's a market there, but not near the market that they invested in with the mass releases. I've seen UMD releases of low-selling dvds, and that makes zero economic marketing sense to me. UMD should stick to the big title releases only, and cut the quantity in half.

[theFIRMbss]

>I thought it was obvious that the movie studios went overboard in their support for UMD

DVD's best thing
is the commentary track.
(And digital porn . . .)

But I've heard folks say
UMD films don't come with
DVD extras --

No commentaries,
no alternate endings. Why
rent with less extras?

[LanPB01]

I guess Sony thought people would buy for the convenience of being able to take the movie with you and your PSP at all times. If they would have placed a hard drive in the PSP so movies and music could have been stored in digital format, it would have been great. Instead, you have to buy miniscule memory cards.