A letter to sony regaurding UMD's

whats dual layer? well anyways, i guess your right, im just tying to say UMD's would totally survive with a burner and such, and could be like the new cassette tape.. i gues....

but anyhelp with the letter to sony? lol, thats why i posted this thread...

how much memory does a umd have like 300mb? i dont know but with that much you can so burn your own movies onto it, then u can buy htose little plastic cartragies to put the umd in.

umm, dude.... a umd is 1.8 gigabytes, thats anout 1800mb, and a saying "then u can buy htose little plastic cartragies to put the umd in." is like saying "then you can buy one of those protective plastic cases to put the floppy disc in" the umd IS the plastic thing, its PART of the umd, ok?

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Originally Posted by 1timeuser

You can just buy a dvd +-r supported cd player now that holds 4 gigs for alot cheaper I imagine. UMD's wont replace CD's at all.... no one is going to pay for this crap when a CF/SD/HDD is so much more sturdy and reliable. I also imagine blank UMD's are over priced (just as everything produced by sony is). Even if Sony did make some kind of umd supported music/movie player.. it would just fail. The current media is much more sturdy and reliable and more likely less expensive than the UMD and its supported hardware.

just.. why would some crappy easy to break disk that is much easier to loose and less only half the capacity of the current common media replace the current media thats had almost 10 good years on the market? Not to mention that sony has a track record of failed media (betamax). The only differance in that case is that Betamax was higher quality than VHS so it was a shame that it failed... but because the DVD can hold alot more digital media then a UMD, It can easily display higher quality video or music... Sorry but the idea that UMD will replace CD and DVD technology is just plain dumb.

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Isn't that what I said?

anyways, sony already made it big with the walk-man as a music player.

why risk it with another betamax type situation, like you said 1timeuser?

The UMD would fail on its own, Just live with it. With how Sony is, It would cost you the same amount of money to buy a 10-20 pack of UMD= 18gb-36gb or so

as to buy an 60-80 cd pack at 600mb= 36gb-48gb or so

so even for cd's it would comes out better
not to mention how much you get for DVDs at 4g a pop.

Just not worth it.




-James

well still, it would be much cheaper than the memory stick, i dont get why theyre freaking out about "pirating" if they just gave us a memstick to put pirated stuff on...

No! No! No!

there is too many dishonest people out there for them to release a UMD burner!

if they do piracy will run rampant and kill the homebrew scene as well as the console itself!

this device is too promising for us to allow it to fall to piracy!

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Originally Posted by leggy

If Sony want the UMD to become a 'standard' then they will have to produce a burner.

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not really UMD videos are selling like hotcakes actually!

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Originally Posted by AKB

how much memory does a umd have like 300mb? i dont know but with that much you can so burn your own movies onto it, then u can buy htose little plastic cartragies to put the umd in.

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AKB - you really should 'google' before you quote figures :D

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Originally Posted by gimpyjr

No! No! No!

there is too many dishonest people out there for them to release a UMD burner!

if they do piracy will run rampant and kill the homebrew scene as well as the console itself!

this device is too promising for us to allow it to fall to piracy!

:mad:

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WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!?!??!?!

kill homebrew? we already have 1 gig memory sticks to pirate movies music and games, what would be the difference of having a umd burner? we couldnt burn the games, retard!

there is a huge pirate scene on laptops and computers, and bill gates is a billionare now, lol...

well i think we actually have 2gig memory sticks now(or in the very near future). but for sony to release a UMD burner would be like saying "here are the keys to my car, please just steal it" UMDs have only one purpose -storing video games for the psp- although i think it would be fun to store backups of my stuff, and all of my roms on a umd and keep my memory stick clean. but honestly people would just rip/download, burn, play, give sony the bird.
im not saying that someone wont come up with a umd burner, but sony would fight it.