Wednesday, January 9th 2008
Blu-ray to Feature PSP Transfer
It looks like Sony has truly admitted defeat with UMD movies following plans to allow the PS3 to transfer Blu-ray movies onto PSP memory sticks. Rather than re-encoding the HD content for the PSP's resolution, Sony plans to have Blu-ray disks which feature a PSP-specific version of the movie on the same disk as the main feature, allowing the PSP to simply copy it from the disk directly to the memory stick. The one downside of this would be that Blu-ray films which have already been sold will probably not be compatible with this feature. President of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, David Bishop, said:
Source:
DailyTech
This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you. There was always the promise of greater interactivity. You'll see that coming in the new year.
11 Comments on Blu-ray to Feature PSP Transfer
Then I found the magic of ripping DVDs to the memory sticks and UMDs became useless to me.
It really isn't that bad watching videos on the PSP screen. It isn't like it has to be big, you are only holding it a foot or two away from your face.
i have a long tube ride from work each day... use my psp to watch movies and stuff... you can download some clips from googles video site... some good comedy stuff on there..
Havent used a UMD though.. useless to me to own it... i never watch something more than once.. and id get bored of having to carry all those discs around
I have a PSPSlim!
Hmm...
The only thing I need now is just a PS3 :pimp:
They should add MP4 versions of the featured film/TV series all DVDs - save me a lot of time ripping and encoding, and when you consider how many people have PSPs / iPods / Zunes etc I bet it would be very well received.