Me To Sony: Give Up On UMD

Some of you may be familiar with Sony's UMD format, but in case you aren't here's the general gist of it: The format, which stands for Universal Media Disk, was supposed to be one of the main selling features for Sony's handheld console the PSP (Playstation Portable), and for the first couple of years studios released movies on UMD day-and-date with the DVD. Problem is the format never really caught on, and soon only Sony themselves were really the only ones still supporting the format. It's been my opinion since I heard of the format that it was a lousy idea. An optical disk format that only worked on a handheld format but cost the same as a DVD which could be used on most optical disk platforms? Why would I bother? Well, apparently Sony still considers UMD to be important to their lineup.

Nevermind that the format was undermined right from the start by portable DVD players, but in the age of BluRay do we really want to watch epic movies like "Braveheart," "The Dark Knight," and "300" on a nine inch screen? My advice to Sony is to just give it up. Right now they have an online rental store for the PSP where people can rent a movie for a few dollars and watch them on the system. Sony should persue that instead and cut their losses with PSP. Will they? Not likely, but it's nice to think so.