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Originally Posted by TedJ
UMD was a rough beast, fortunately one that didn't last terribly long in the marketplace. You had two options:
- Buy the UMD version of your favourite movie for more than the DVD release, and receive a blocky low-res copy that only worked on the PSP.
- Make a digital copy from your DVD using free software and copy to a Memory Stick.
Most people went with option 2.  |
Of course, bear in mind, when the PSP first launched, that wasn't really possible, because memory sticks weren't big enough.
A few years later, sure. But when you only had 512 megabytes , a movie would take up most of the card.
Ironically, if Sony hadn't used memory sticks but something proprietary or a small amount onboard for saving, they likely would have sold a lot more UMDs (and games, since the advent of big memory sticks helped piracy, too)