Sony To Distribute Movies On Memory Stick -- PSP movies on a stick
perhaps because PSP movies on disk are going away ...
The dying days of UMD movies are upon us
what is PSP?
what is UMD?
Telecom is the most acronym-centric technical field (outside the military), including acronyms formed from other acronyms. Teleclysm appears to be perpetuating that tradition.
Okay, here's some acronym unwrapping.
PSP is Sony PlayStation Portable. Anyway, it's a game player with WQVGA (Wide QVGA (368 x 208 pixels) -- a wide screen version of QVGA (where QVGA is quarter VGA, or 320 x 240 as seen in the video iPod (while VGA is from last century))).
In addition to playing games, the PSP can be used as a media player (as will Microsoft's upcoming portable XBox/media player).
UMD (Universal Media Disc) is a propriety disc format developed by Sony for the PSP. Sony is notorious for going it alone on format (see Betamax). UMD isn't supported by home DVD players or PCs, so a movie bought on UMD is useless without a PSP.
There are a variety of mobile devices that support video -- phones, game players, portable DVD players, iPod, non-iPod MP3 players, etc., etc. Capabilities of these devices include various subsets of video displays, disc readers, WiFi, USB, harddisk, flash memory, media decoders, wireless WAN (e.g. EV-DO), optical sensors, etc., etc. This ill-defined product space is a battleground that will host a smackdown between consumer electronics companies and computer (HW and SW) companies as various niche products begin to overlap in functionality..
Thanks. Looking at that chart, I can only say, "everyone should be ashamed of themelves!"
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perhaps because PSP movies on disk are going away ...
The dying days of UMD movies are upon us
- mark 7-14-2006 2:49 am
what is PSP? what is UMD?
- tom moody 7-14-2006 4:19 am
Telecom is the most acronym-centric technical field (outside the military), including acronyms formed from other acronyms. Teleclysm appears to be perpetuating that tradition.
Okay, here's some acronym unwrapping.
PSP is Sony PlayStation Portable. Anyway, it's a game player with WQVGA (Wide QVGA (368 x 208 pixels) -- a wide screen version of QVGA (where QVGA is quarter VGA, or 320 x 240 as seen in the video iPod (while VGA is from last century))).
In addition to playing games, the PSP can be used as a media player (as will Microsoft's upcoming portable XBox/media player).
UMD (Universal Media Disc) is a propriety disc format developed by Sony for the PSP. Sony is notorious for going it alone on format (see Betamax). UMD isn't supported by home DVD players or PCs, so a movie bought on UMD is useless without a PSP.
There are a variety of mobile devices that support video -- phones, game players, portable DVD players, iPod, non-iPod MP3 players, etc., etc. Capabilities of these devices include various subsets of video displays, disc readers, WiFi, USB, harddisk, flash memory, media decoders, wireless WAN (e.g. EV-DO), optical sensors, etc., etc. This ill-defined product space is a battleground that will host a smackdown between consumer electronics companies and computer (HW and SW) companies as various niche products begin to overlap in functionality..
- mark 7-14-2006 5:18 am
Thanks. Looking at that chart, I can only say, "everyone should be ashamed of themelves!"
- tom moody 7-14-2006 6:35 am