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Monday, September 19, 2005
UMD gaining popularity
Hollywood Gets Boost from PSP
A lot of people doubted that Sony's UMD format could really take off, but it seems that more and more Hollywood studios are embracing the PSP during a year in which box-office sales and attendance figures are down. UMD sales are expected to generate about $250 million in revenues for 2005.
When the PlayStation 2 made its debut in America, many gamers found themselves watching lots of DVD movies on their new game console. It appears that the PlayStation Portable is in a similar situation, especially since the video game offerings for the handheld have been a bit slim lately.
UMD sales on the rise
Although a proprietary format, Sony's UMD disc has been faring better than expected, with many PSP owners enjoying the DVD-like quality of the movies on the PSP's bright widescreen display. According to Tom Adams, an analyst with Adams Media Research, Hollywood Studios have sold almost 5 million units of UMD movies thus far, with some titles selling hundreds of thousands of units.
"We've been pleasantly surprised by how well movies have done," John Koller, PSP product manager at Sony Computer Entertainment America told Investor's Business Daily. "A lot of retailers have been taken aback as well."
[ "When we saw the picture clarity, it blew us away. It gave us great confidence, and that's why we supported it at launch," Gordon Ho, senior vice president of Disney's home-video division ]
This success has also been a boon for Hollywood in a year that has not seen many big hits—box-office revenues and attendance figures are down significantly from last year, according to Newsweek, and DVD sales are no longer growing at the rapid pace that they used to. UMD movies, however, are projected to generate approximately $250 million in revenues for 2005.
Currently, there are about 150 movies, animated films, music videos and TV compilations available on UMD, and over 250 are expected by the close of 2005, which would actually make it the most widely supported new video format since DVD was introduced in 1997.
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