Depeche Mode UMD Releases

***wraggster*** · November 9th, 2005, 19:45

I’m not sure how many of you out there are old enough to remember the strange and innovative “Depeche Mode” music in the 80’s, but for those of you who do, you might like to know they went to UMD in November:

Depeche Mode release three Playstation PSP UMD titles on 14th November 2005 - One Night In Paris, Devotional & 101.

One Night In Paris and Devotional are both concert films, directed by long time collaborator Anton Corbijn. One Night In Paris was filmed using 13 cameras to achieve the ultimate illustration of the band's striking performance at the Palais Omnisport, Paris Bercy in front of 16,000 fans as part of the 2001 Exciter Tour.

Devotional was recorded on the band's 1993 sold out world tour and on its original release was nominated for a Grammy award (Best Long Form Music Video).

101 is the documentary film from around the time of Music For the Masses world tour (1998) when the band exploded into the musical mainstream. Their Rose Bowl concert was the 101st and last date of the tour and for 101 the acclaimed film-maker DA Pennebaker (director of the seminal Dylan film 'Don't Look Back') documents Depeche Mode and their audience.

Depeche Mode have recently marked their 25th anniversary with the release of the critically acclaimed Top 10 album Playing The Angel and embark on a world tour in March / April 2006 including a date as the first act to play in the refurbished Wembley Arena in London.

The UMD format was developed for use with the brand new Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) gaming system, recently released in the UK. The UMD discs are 2.3 inch optical discs which hold DVD quality video and audio.

A UMD release of Depeche Mode's latest album, Playing The Angel with extras including a photogallery and the video for the hit single Precious will be released in the near future.

**iball** · November 9th, 2005, 19:50

The original "Emo" music.

**plungmonies** · November 10th, 2005, 01:49

I think I will be snapping up both of 101 and devotional, they were both fantastic concerts.
ps: depeche mode translates as fast fashion for a bit of pointless trivia.

**Jdemon** · November 10th, 2005, 16:01

There are some PSP clips up from Playing The Angel on my site for anyone who's interested.

Unfortunately for these UMD releases there is a limit to the space on a UMD. The DVD versions pack much more stuff into them. There are alternate camera angles,etc. So while this is a cool thing to have it's still more cost effective to buy DVD's and convert your files to watch on PSP. Think about it, for the cost of 5 UMD movies you can get a 1GB MS.

**plungmonies** · November 10th, 2005, 17:10

I already have devotional on an old vhs cassette and 101 on cd, I have been intending on buying one night in paris for a while now but I was a bit put off by the exciter album,(though the dave clarke mixes are fantastic). BTW nice site jdemon, its nice to see a mode fan on this site.....I dont feel so old now.

PS:more mode trivia: Q:what arcade game is dave playing in the clip for everything counts?

A: shinobi by sega

**Jdemon** · November 11th, 2005, 16:52

Thanks plungmonies...

I've been a big DM fan for...well lets just say "years"
PTA is very good...much much beter than Exciter IMO. You may want to check out http://www.dmpire.com/board/main.php it's the greatest DM forum on the web.

**Mr Love** · March 15th, 2006, 21:55

As the sad DM collector I am I've got both 101/Devotional/One night in Paris on UMD although I haven't got a PSP - thus I haven't been able to play them to answer a few questions about the audio I have:
The backsleeves of 101/Devotional say it's PCM stereo - is it possible to check the bitrate and sampling frequency? I guess it's CD quality (strange if it's worse), which means there'll only be about 0.8GB left for the video on a 2 hour movie like 101! (And that also contains commentaries!) As for One night in Paris it doesn't say anything about the audio, but I suppose it's PCM too? The thing is that the DVD only includes a 5.1 Dolby Digital track but I'd really like uncompressed stereo...