DVD to UMD??

[F34R]

I see. Sorry for the misunderstanding. But there are DVD burners now, how did those get made? Is it possible that UMD burners would be made then?

Its ok, maybe I was being to blunt. I just dont see UMD writers coming into the picture. What purpose would they serve ? Everything you could use a UMD for on the PSP, can be accomplished with the use of a memory stick.

[pspfan]

Couldn't you have more movies, or am I mistaken?

[the_ape]

In theory you could have a UMD burner (leave the reasons asside), the technology is basically mish mash of DVD and Mini Disk. Sony have made the UMD Disk a standard. However you need to look at this from the other angle. If Sony (or one of it's partners that have licenced the technology) release a UMD writer, Sony would be asking for all sort's of problems with copying disk's ( a lot of the games so far have no copy protection and were relying on the fact the disk is not copy'able, a bit like the Nintendo Cube). Also as we have seen with DVD-+R the first 3 generations of media were not really ver compatible, less issues there as all PSP drives 'SHOULD' be to the same spec, but I garantee the manufacturer will not be the same in all unit's.

It's just not in Sony's best interest to allow a writer, the only real reason to have one is to copy PSP disk's! There not big enough in storage size to be usefull anywhere else!

So technically possible, in practicality will not happen.

[the_ape]

Oh yeah just on another note, the inflated price of MSDuo will not stay that way for ever, and 2GB MSDuo will become more available. UMD only holds 1.8Gb anyhow (in dual Layer mode)