Commerce

Watching Movies on Your PSP

On March 24th, Sony will be releasing it’s hot new portable gaming system, the PSP (Play Station Portable) into retail stores. The following month Sony will be 4 movies in it’s proprietary Universal Media Disc (UMD) format that will play on its new PSP.   The titles include “XXX,” “Hellboy,” “Resident Evil 2,” and “Once Upon A Time in Mexico.”  UMD is a proprietary disc format created by Sony, which can store up to 1.8GB of data on a single disc. Sony has embedded digital rights management into the format to stop illicit duplication.  The obvious questions are, “How will they look?” and “Does a PSP customer want to watch a movie on it or pay games on it?”