A letter to sony regaurding UMD's

[rmedtx]

the same way DVD took/taking over VHS, UMD will eventually take over DVD and CD, considering the unversal media part, there are many application, music, vids, etc. , so a real good move for sony would be to make a home UMD player (for vids or movies), and then market the UMD's for all aplications not just for PSP

I agree.

[RedKing14CA]

well, i havent sent it yet, i was wondering if you guys could HELP me with it, make it better, maybe sign it? and it would be excellant if mulstiple people could send this letter.... it would be dumb of sony not to make a umd burner to "protect" its users from "piracy"...

shiver me timbers, i aint bein no pirate....

i get my music from my cd's directly to my psp....

and umm, bill gates is a billionare, do you know why sony, because he makes CD's, that you can "burn" ANYTHING too, and wtf, you give us memory sticks!?!?!? we cant put pirated movies/music on that, now can we

i would love to see umd's prosper, there so small, and they protect themselves, and 1.8 gigs, wow....

edit- wait, i gots an idea...

RedKing14CA: *waves his hand* "you will make a UMD burner.."

Sony Employee: "who are you, what are you doing here?"

RedKing14CA: "you dont need my identification..."

Sony Employee: "i dont need you indentification..."

RedKing14CA: "you will take me to your master"

Sony Employee: "i will take you to my master, come with me"

*the weak minded sony employee guides the jedi in the red cloak through a sony building, until they reach a musty smelling cave within... "follow me" says the sony employee... the red cloaked jedi follows the Sony employee... until they reach a fowel smelling area..*

RedKing14CA: "whats that horrid stench"

Sony Employee: "my master..."

*the red cloaked jedi looks up, and sees on top of a platform, a huge worm like creature, eating..*

RedKing14CA: "who are you.."

Creature: "I am Sony the Hutt, who are YOU, and why have you come here?"

RedKing14CA: "I am know as RedKing14CA, i have come to help you make money..."

Sony the Hutt: "excellant, RedKing, how so?"

RedKing14CA: "By making a UMD burner, to make UMD's for the psp and players to come..."

Sony the Hutt: "No, evil pirates will put BAD things on our PERFECT devices, i cant have that!!!"

RedKing14CA: "you will make a UMD burner"

Sony the Hutt: "what do you think you are, some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? gaurds, escort this 'jedi' to his vehicle outside!"

RedKing14CA: "I have a bad feeling about this" *activates his Redish orangish LightSaber*

TO BE CONTINUED....

[sarla1596]

whoa whoa whoa is that the acutal email!?!?!? do u honestly think there gonna take an email like that seriously enough to even consider what were proposing to do, the best way to get there attention is to be as formal and serious as possible cause if u dont they wont even bother read ur whole email, itll end up in the trash along wit 2 millions other emails. you have to make it stand out but make it stand out in a good way not the way that makes it look like a bunch of 4 year old kids are asking this of them, no offense. just a suggestion. thats my two cents

SaRlA

[RedKing14CA]

this is th emessage you dork, i was joking about the jedi thing, dork!!!

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Dear PlayStation, I have recently acquired a PSP handheld system, and 2 32mb memory sticks... it is a truly extraordinary device, yet before it came out Sony released the UMD... it is suppose to be, and I quote, "common application for everyone" yet there has been some controversy about all this, for the Nintendo DS has a movie player that you can get memory for, much more cheaply, than the PSP... hence forth I researched online, everything I could of what Sony is going to do about this, and I came to a number of people / websites, that said "About the only thing Sony can do to make their video and media on the PSP cheaper, and more efficient, than the Nintendo DS, is by making a UMD burner, however, Sony always charges A LOT of money for their burners, so IF they even release one, expect it to be about 500$"... the Nintendo DS can acquire 2GB of movie/ media for under 100$ extra... so will you release a UMD burner? For you did say "a common application for everyone" so if you want UMD's to be as popular as CD's you will ultimately need a burner, one of the main things making CD's popular...

So why don't you surprise them all, and make millions at the same time, by releasing a UMD burner for about 50-120$, and sell blank UMD's for 20-50$... this way it will work similar to a memory stick, in that when you put it in the PSP, you can go to music and select UMD, or video and select UMD, simple really...

So please, I beg of you, respond to this letter! Millions of people await upon it, and it will draw free attention, if you answer it, in a positive, or negative way
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[bill00000]

A UMD holds 1.8 gb. That's a bit of a step backwards for a new format. And a home UMD player? Considering the DVD's of today use 720x480 for standard 4:3, how much of a market is there for watching movies on your TV at a measly 480x272 pixels? I don't think the UMD will be a failed format. Will it die with the PSP? Yes, unless they use it with the next gen of handhelds. So why won't it fail? because it's main function is to prevent Joe Anybody from burning UMD's and cutting Sony's profits. They've given us enough with our memory sticks, and hopefully through firmware upgrades, we can encode video in the native 480X272 resolution for full quality.

[RedKing14CA]

umm, bill you sound.. erm... uneducated in the ways of the force....

the UMD is suppose to replace CD's.... 1.8 gigs measily? how about 700mb for cd's????

its not suppose to be like a umd movie player for a home tv, im talking when they come out with umd players (music)... and perhaps a UMD player (for computer)..

its not going to be like the new DVD, for Big screen t.v's... its suppose to be the new CD, not DVD, there is a difference!

[Velo]

Why? I believe a DVD player and rewriter came out a while ago for PC. Many games are now being set on these DVD's of which is much, much, much larger than a UMD.
No developers are going to use them, seeing as they would be much more costly to make more then one of them as opposed to one DVD. Therefore, the UMD format will be useless to developer.

Sony would also tag on a nice price tag to buy a 10-set and a Burner. There goes the consumers. Unless of course you think Sony is going to put a cheap price on em', if so, then that would go against everything you stand for.

and to be clear, I doubt that a UMD could stomp a DVD. DVDs already have multimedia capabilities and enough space to make a UMD look like a floppy disk.

Therefore, for PCs the UMD will fail.


Nothing says Sony doesn't make a video and music player, such as Video Now.
Developers of films and music would be happy, but I doubt they would make a burner and seperate "write-able" UMDs just for it.

[Cap'n 1time]

umm, bill you sound.. erm... uneducated in the ways of the force....

the UMD is suppose to replace CD's.... 1.8 gigs measily? how about 700mb for cd's????

its not suppose to be like a umd movie player for a home tv, im talking when they come out with umd players (music)... and perhaps a UMD player (for computer)..

its not going to be like the new DVD, for Big screen t.v's... its suppose to be the new CD, not DVD, there is a difference!

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.

[Kpow]

Couldn't have said it better myself 1timeuser

[bill00000]

umm, bill you sound.. erm... uneducated in the ways of the force....

the UMD is suppose to replace CD's.... 1.8 gigs measily? how about 700mb for cd's????

its not suppose to be like a umd movie player for a home tv, im talking when they come out with umd players (music)... and perhaps a UMD player (for computer)..

its not going to be like the new DVD, for Big screen t.v's... its suppose to be the new CD, not DVD, there is a difference!

Uneducated? I'm just being realistic. I can get a dvd+-r that'll hold 4gb for about 50 cents (thats canadian money, too!). Sony would have a rough time undercutting that. It's all about supply and demand, and a lot more people have hardware that will read dvds. Considering the "measly" 700mb CDs were introduced 12 years ago, a brand new format with a little more than double that isn't all that impressive.

Maybe the UMD would have worked a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but in the here and now, no dice.