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who needs to buy UMD movies? when I end up buying a PSP, I'll get a large memory stick and just transfer video from my PC to my memory stick.

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See, this is something I can understand.

But you can use the memory stick on more then just one product. And for more then one reason. Music, Movies, Saving Games, Pics (can the PSP display pics?)... see money saver.

Sorry, I didn't mean to take this topic OT.

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Don't worry, just pray I never see you on the streets...

I think we can all agree: UMD movies = lame, being able to take various videos and stuff from the computer with you on a memory stick = Nifty!

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yeah, but I dont have any other product that uses Memory stick...

And I will no doubt be using it for music, movies, game-related content and pictures (it displays pictures quite nicely).

UMD, for now at least (and probably until the format becomes writeable) will be only for games. At least as far as I'm concerned.

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Hopfully down the road there will be a way to make the PSP support Divx format for movie files. that would be pretty helpful.

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I don't see it as wasting money CamFu... of course you are entitled to your own opinion. I'm not going to buy movies that I have. I'm not stupid like that, and you didn't call me stupid I know.

My point is.... I'm buying the UMD movies that aren't being released on DVD format here, Such as Final Fantasy VII Advent Children... it is making a UMD release before the DVD in North America comes out. And I'm a regular japanese movie watcher, and a lot of the movies in japan I want are not out here, and I will be purchasing the UMD's. I won' t be buying your regular everyday UMD's just to have them for PSP. I hope that answers your question as to why I would buy UMD movies. In any case, I'm here to support Sony's efforts as well.

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Wondering a few things...

1, I wonder if someone will make a program that uses the USB connection to PSP, to read whats on the UMD movie disc, copy it to the PC hard drive, then make a DVD out of it.

2. I wonder if there will be a way to connect the PSP to the TV and either play games or watch the UMD movies on the full sized TV.


I still would never buy a UMD movie, i agree with camfu that they seem totally pointless. much like buying the tv shows for GBA that they had available.

However getting a big enough mem card to put some movie files on does interest me.

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Yeah, Kyuzo's post also made me wonder if it will be possible to rip the UMD movies. :)

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Actually, Dreamcast was the first system to offer online play at launch, and it was cheaper too.

I want to get a PSP, but I think the price right now is too high. I'm also not too interested in the launch games. I also don't like the fact that it has the exposed screen, and I'm not sure how the UMD will hold up. My combat veteran Game Boy Advance SP has been pretty beat up, but the cartridges had take a beaten, as can the SP itself, since it folds up to protect the screen. My DS is supposed to be here any day now, but I'm assuming it will be the same story, the outside takes abuse, the screen is untouched.

I don't know how many people have handhelds get bounced around in an armored vehicle, but the point is these things are portable, take them anywhere, but being portable should mean throwing it in a bag, or in the backseat of your car, and not worrying about a scratched screen when you take it out.

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Dreamcast at launch offered a modem with no games taking advantage of it...

PSP games are taking advantage of the online play right from the start...

PSP's the first system to actually have online PLAY at launch...

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I dont totally get that tho. With your SP, you dont leave it unfolded and bouncing around in the vehicle right? you fold it up i assume. Same with DS. So what really would be the difference between folding it up and sliding it into a case? either way requires something to be done to protect it, and either way the screen is exposed while playing. So i've never quite understood the argument about one screen being protected and the other not. Seems pretty much exactly the same to me.

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I thought Chu Chu Rocket launched, I was wrong. But DC did have games online, it wasn't multi-player online play, but they were online in various ways to enhance gameplay. This is just another clever play of words from marketing execs.

And with my SP, we take fire, I slam it shut, throw it behind me. There's been a few times where there wasn't time to find a case, and put it inside. And the whole point of a handheld is to be able to put it in my pocket when I'm done, but that will leave the screen exposed.

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yes but if you have time to throw it in your pocket, you have time to put it in a case first. PSP with its case should still be slimmer then the DS folded up.
of course im not talking about emergancies. Ememy ambushes you and starts firing, you stand up and say, TIME OUT! I HAVE TO PUT AWAY MY HANDHELD!.... YOU SEE IT GOT SO BORING HERE FIGHTING YOU GUYS I HAD TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO!

hehe
i dunno. i just find neither better in that reguard. Both ways its up to you to protect your own screen. neither handheld does it for ya.....unless you drop the dS on its lid and it slams shut when it hits the ground. lol.

Eh, im sure someone will make a screen protector that snaps onto the PSP and folds down over the screen, IMO totally pointless but to each his own i suppose.

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I think we need to look at the big picture here.

PSP is the first HANDHELD system to launch online. The preceding statement is for whomever differs upon the statement "...first SYSTEM..." because we all know Dreamcast was online.

We shouldn't compare systems to Handhelds... it's like saying "The DS sucks compared to the Gamecube"

....right?

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But didn't have games that took advantage of online play right at launch...

And when I think of online play, I don't think of "online in various ways to enchance the gameplay"... I think of playing with or against people online, and PSP is the first console to offer that at launch...

It's not just a "clever play of words from marketing execs"...