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» posted on Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 2:32 am by Paul Cameron
The Problem With the PSP UMD Movie
Ever since the PlayStation Portable (PSP) was launched, folks have been interested in much more than the games that could be played on it. There was also a lot of demand for the PSP UMD movies that it could play. It seems like there are many more movies that can be played on these systems than there are games and other PSP stuff. This has also led to the creation of software related to these movies such as PSP Movie Creator and other converter programs.
However it wasn’t long before the sales of PSP UMD movies started to decline radically. In fact, manufacturers started cutting or ceasing production, and dropping their prices considerably. So what took place to cause this decline? When you look at it, it’s actually pretty apparent. The situation is quite similar to downloading songs and movies for free instead of buying the disk. Why pay good money for something that’s freely available online?
The manufacturers of these digital PSP UMD movies obviously didn’t see this coming. Of course it’s just like what happened to the producers of music CDs when the internet became loaded with plenty of free download sites. So the PSP UMD movie industry has virtually ground to a halt due to the great number of internet sites where you can download illegal copies of movies to play on your console.
The industry tried to rebound by producing tough-to-find movies that were perhaps only available on outdated media. Several producers even tried to set up sites where they charge a modest fee for streaming these movies. However even at a reduced price, folks still preferred to download their movies at no cost.
There’s a huge amount of sites out there that convert movies into PSP formats that are easily downloadable to your console. And along with this easy accessibility to free movie downloads, there are also conversion programs you can purchase that make it easier than ever to convert movies you already own into UMD format. Even though this is theoretically illegal, it’s still a popular practice. And of course these files are shared freely on the internet. There are so many choices to getting a movie that it almost seems crazy to do so.
It’s not easy to dream up a solution to this situation, but any steps to change things would need to involve some sort of law enforcement effort to search out and shut down these sites. This could be something that the big manufacturers would like to be involved in. Furthermore, it’s important that the laws against piracy are implemented more forcefully with wider coverage. However it’s much less difficult to talk about this than to do anything about it. If the situation concerns you, you can do your part by paying for your PSP UMD movies instead of “borrowing” them.
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