BREAKING NEWS... Yet Another Sony Propietary Format is a total failure!
Posted by Some Guy at 10:51pm on Fri Mar 31st 2006
Betamax. MiniDisc. MemoryStick. ATRAC. What do all of these products have in common? They're all propietary, all created by Sony, and all complete and total failures. So no one should be shocked to hear that Yet Another Sony Propietary Format, this one being the UMD movie format for PSP, is also a complete and total failure. Several major studios have completely stopped releasing UMD movies, many stores are scaling back their inventory, and an anonymous executive at Universal went so far as to say, "It's awful. Sales are near zilch. It's another Sony bomb - like Blu-ray." Mmmmm, now that's some juicy gossip! Universal is currently the only studio who is not supporting Blu-ray, and it sounds like they're already predicting its demise. So now the question is, will Blu-ray also be YASPF failure? Well, history does tend to repeat itself... ;)But seriously now, people. Is anyone really surprised that consumers didn't want to pay twice for a movie they already owned, only to get it in a crappier format with lesser resolution that only plays on one device that has a tiny screen that you can't even hook up to your TV? Whose brilliant idea was this anyways?
