Yes as all have said movies for sure but gaming no. UMD has show that it can hold a lot of data for gaming and can help bring those fancy graphics to handhelds. Though I do like carts a little more for handhelds just due to loading but that's minor. Ths would be like if BluRay wasn't doing well. Sony would still make BluRay games.

if toshiba had footed the bill for putting hd-dvd drives on the 360, i would think they wouldn't be in the situation they are now.

it's sorta the same for UMD, except UMDs still get used for other purposes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Sony ever tried to market the UMD outside of the PSP. Do people claim Nintendo is holding on to a dead format with every iteration of their cartridges because they are not used for any thing outside the Gameboy? The UMD is simply the format used for the PSP, and probably future PSP's. And I don't know if you people realize it, but Nintendo uses their handheld format for videos too, not just Sony.

I don't know why people hate on the UMD so much. It's cheaper to manufacture and hold's more data than cartridges, and it's scratch proof because of the outer shell. Sounds perfect for a handheld imo.

what I didn't / don't like is the prices.

DVD quality movies...$10 or less please.

Maybe if they didn't charge full DVD price for a UMD?

apart from games and movies for the PSP. I dont think they have promoted it for another system. Its just an option for PSP owners to buy movies, that it.

The only UMD movie/Tv Show I have is the one that came with the PSP Daxter pak. I don't ever plan on buying a UMD movie, because I would rather just use it to play games.

Who cares. Movies were only ever a bonus of UMD. The primary reason is to play games. With the growning popularity of PSP I dont think UMD can be called a failure when its does exactly what its supposed to do.

if they sold them for less than 10 to 5 dollars. That would be sweet.

I think Sony only success with propriety formats was the 3.5" floppy disk.

The only UMD I have is Spiderman 2 that I got for free from Sony. But I'd only buy a UMD if it was very very cheap.

yeah movie umds are dead unless they lower the price to like 10 bucks.

... it's all about the PRICE of UMDs. The format was dead from the beginning. DVD quality movies at LOWER THAN DVD PRICES would have been a huge momentum bringer to the PSP, but instead, they decided to sell UMDs WITHOUT THE FEATURES OF DVD at full DVD prices. Just plain' ol' DUMB DECISION. I got a PSP Slim Daxter Pack for Christmas, and racked up on cheap/clearance UMDs for $4 and UNDER. But now with Blu-ray downloads to PSP upcoming, UMDs are pretty much history. Still, I think UMD Movies could make a comeback if Sony announced in a major ad campaign that UMD movie prices would now be under $10 for all new releases (even LESS for downloads to Memory Stick?) and under $5 for all old stock. PSP is a hit now, and Sony would be wise to heed all of our suggestions to get UMD Movies going again....

It's always been Sony's thing to push new technology and to get other companies to use them as well. A lot fail, but some get accepted and become standard and HUGE. Remember that thing called the DVD? Yea, Sony was part of that.

Memory stick is all you need for psp.

It is made for the psp and only for the psp. It is not doomed until psp dies off into maybe psp 2 (which will be another fomrat)

Its like saying the gba cartridge is doomed when gba first came out.

Yes sony advertised that it can do more than just play games but in the end of the day it has doomed as a movie format.

At least, here is a useless format that doesn't hurt anyone. Let Sony hope if they wish. Not like HD DVD that is hurting the entire movie industry.

I don't think Sony was ever very concerned about UMD movies. It just doesn't stand to reason that they would allow you to encode dvd's to mp4 format if they thought UMD movies had a chance. Now with the new Blue-ray update coming, that would hurt UMD sales even more. If they were banking on UMD movie sales, these two options would not exist.