I used to bring them around too. I bought one of those leather gamestop cases with the mesh pockets for all the umds. I could only have like 8 discs at any time so I always had to choose what to bring along.
UMD movies were a godsend to kids who had to go on long family journies, just imagine finally being able to fit a portable DVD player in your pocket! the PSP pretty much still to this day manages to be the most compact portable disc reader that is capable of storing music, videos, photos and games to memory. I can't think of anything else that does all that whilst fitting in your pocket. personally i think Sony is terrible at noticing when they've hit something great in the portable market; UMDs would've been even more sweet if they weren't exclusive to the PSP, I would love to see stuff like UMD music players that can rip to MP3, or simply UMD video players.
@@ekulipse1133 Smartphones weren't really a thing back then (keep in mind this came out in 2005), and PSP also supported MP4 video playback (which in retrospect probably wasn't helpful when you're trying to sell customers on UMDs and they're loading their ripped DVDs onto the MemoryStick instead).
100% agreed, there needed to be more UMD-capable devices. Lowering the cost a bit would've really helped, too. It's a hard sell when it's the same price as DVD, but if it's lower then you'll garner some more interest. I would've loved to see a UMD music player that hearkened back to the MiniDisc players before it, or a slim UMD video player about the size of a PSP Go that included AV out cables in the box. Video rental chains could've taken advantage of this too. You could let someone rent a few UMD movies for a week for $10, and they can enjoy those movies while on a flight or a long car ride.
ekulipse Back then the IPod Video was the closest you could get to a smartphone with big storage. I think that you could get one with 120gb. The iPhone came out on in -07 and only had like 4 or 8 gigs in the first models. Plus that the IPod video screen was very small, like half of a regular smartphone. The psp slim with its card reader, ability to play very good games and watch movies on a pretty big screen etc. was like the ultimate shit in -05.
It'll sound odd, but even now I'd prefer to watch a UMD on my psp. I have an iPod, I have a smart phone, but both of those rely on digital downloads. Just like my game and music collection, I want it to fill up shelves. Also, downloads don't have box art :)
5 years later and physical games are dying man most dont even come with box art anymore. I got the new pokemon 2 days ago and opened the box. All there was was a small cartridge. Nothing else no book. It's just not the same as it used to be. Everything is headed toward streaming services now
The DLC concept was the first and final nail in the coffin for me. After 2010 buying games regularly - at least on a monthly or tri monthly basis was no longer...Unless they were old titles off ebay etc. Shelling out $90-100 for a half baked product where I'm expected to pay extra to download shit that should already be on the disc is just way too much. Back then 'DLC' came in the form of expansion packs which at least gave you a physical tangible product to keep rather than just a virtual copy. Dont get me wrong, having virtual copies is excellent for both backup and portability, but if there's nothing physically to show for it, the product feels incredibly cheap and rather worthless. It's like cryptocurrency vs hard currency/gold standard.
Yup. We should have stayed right around 1998. People were happier and everyone was way more creative. Oh well at least we got to live during those times.
when my brother was stationed overseas we bought and shipped him a bunch of these when they were new. he would rewatch them like crazy and thought the concept was great. Way before smartphone or even iPod video
UMD movie junkie here; I have over 100 UMD movies! When I purchased my PSP (silver) in ‘08, it came with National Treasure and I loved how crisp the video was. Then, I found out that GameStop was running a Christmas special (at that time) with a variety of UMD movies for just $5. That’s what jumpstarted my movie buying frenzy 😉 I still have & love my PSP too 👍 Btw, love your channel!
Who would want to collect them? Easy answer... (More or less what you said at the end of the video) The cinematic version of a game collector. I am not a gamer, but I am a cinema collector. Instead of having every video game format & console, I have every (with a few super rare exceptions) movie format & it's player (21 film formats to be exact). Including a PSP 3000 that I do not own a single game for, but collect UMD Video releases for. I even have a backlit GBA SP that I only use to watch GBA Videos on (there is another topic that would make a good followup). So there are those of us out there who are the cinema equivalents of the (more popular) gamer/retro-gamer, and we love UMD video!
Not many people know this but you can hook up the psp to the tv with a psp component cord. I can tell you that those UMD movies look damn good on a hd tv. They are DVD quality. Its like having a miniature DVD player.
In 2001 ish I got DVD player and my friend came over and was astounded by how clear the format was compared to his VHS tapes, really is hard to describe insane it was when Blu-Ray first came out retailers still had new VCR tapes on shelves for sale.
Me too, all we had to compare it to was flip phones with their potato screens or the DS which were pixelated to shit and back. There just weren’t clear images in this form factor until the PSP.
I love UMDs! They are amazing for flights and since I am a semi-frequent flyer it is great to have them on hand. They don't offer much in ways of entertainment or snacks on planes anymore ( unless you want to pay). Plus the PSP is something I usually travel with and the UMDs are compact.
i just bought a used 3001 and watched my first UMD movie Mirror Mask. It's a little dated but functions fine. I actually liked it so much put in an order for the complete Aeon Flux Animated series for just over $5.00 shipped. PSP, still being an impressive fun system in 2016.
UMD movies were not 720! They were 480p (720x480). And the PSP had a resolution of only 480x272. So not really HD... The Advance had a resolution of 240x160. And so are the movies.
Yes, but GBA Cartridge had almost no space. So it was not possible to put movies, but only less than 1h of video. So usually they just put 2 episodes from a cartoon. And watch cartoons episodes is less attractive than movies.
@@bluekewne That time it didn't exist HD, PSP started at 2004-2005, so HD was not an option that time. And considering that, if there was an UMD Player, it could be better
Sadly I have a few.. They are great when your going long distances or say stuck at work working the graveyard shift and need something to pass the time! I want to get more, but on eBay people want waay too much for em.
***** Well the same can be said about any device with a USB connection.. But that crap takes too long!! I'd rather grab my PSP and some movies/games and go! I don't have time to figure out what I want to watch on my device and convert it to a format it can see, transfer it over a slow 2.0 connection, and hope it all fits on the flash card on the device. With UMDs it's so much easier!!
I found a bunch of these movies at a DollarTree, titles like: Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, Steamboy, Animated Series Spiderman, Dewey Cox's Walk Hard, and Nirvana's Nevermind. Not a huge fan of the volume limitations, but for a dollar apiece? Great video brother!
I dunno, UMDs might have taken off if there was a more "bang for your buck" factor to it like collections/trilogies on 1 disc or included free like the digital copies today. But mini-discs and mini-movies on a mini-screen have mini-appeal and should have had a mini-price, and therefore now have mini-attraction as mini-collectors items. In my mini-opinion.
3:31- When you pulled up that Daft Punk vinyl you earned major respect from me. Discovery is my favorite album ever (although I have it on CD instead of vinyl).
I bought a few of them years ago. UMD made a good way to watch movies when I was living in an Army barracks and didn't have much room for video games and movies in my wall locker.
I always thought there should be way more live concert UMDs. Watching a few songs on a lunch break or car ride made more sense to me than watching parts of a movie. Also thought that it was a big mistake for Sony to "forget" a TV connection for the PSP-1000. Nintendo had been doing it since the original GameBoy, you would think that Sony would have done it right away too.
I love collecting dead formats (I have a ton of Dreamcast games and HD DVDs), I'm thinking about getting into collection UMD movies next. I still remember gaming journalists singing the praises of these declaring it would help Sony crush the Nintendo DS. Hindsight can be a real bitch...
I've been collecting umd video for along time it's my favorite way to watch movies without being bothered. I'm glad to hear you collect them too. My favorite movie on psp will always be clerks and they actually added bonus features for that one, but the movie national treasure 2 was never released with a full case. It just had a slip cover cause it was bundled with a system. But in the uk there were a lot of newer releases like coraline and the newest Harry potter most region free.
I collect them! I think what made the figurative lightbulb go on in my head was looking beyond UMD as something just for gaming and viewing it as a “lost” video format akin to CED, Laserdisc or even Betamax (which was itself another Sony attempted format). Looking at it that way made collecting quite fun. Interestingly, there are some films, like the anime “Perfect Blue”, which are long out of print on DVD, but available on UMD for a fraction of the cost. Taking into consideration that a PSP 3000+Component cables+AC adaptor means you have an easy to set up movie player that is good to go even on a modern TV, it all becomes that much more appealing.
Sony could have made UMDs a bigger success if they launched alongside UMD movies, a dvd player for tvs that also had a little UMD slot. That way UMDs would have not just been for the psp, but if you wanted you could put them on a big screen
I have around 200 personally. Although I wasn't collecting just to collect them because they're unique. For 12 years I was a Booth Attendant at a local college. Parking booths are not large. So you can only fit a very small radio or hand held TV. Or in my case a PSP. I also ended up buying 10-12 8gb ProDuo memory cards. The largest size at the time in the mid and late 2000's. And also $100 a piece at the time so ended up costing me $1000-$1400. Which I have my entire MP4 library on. Movies and TV shows. Which I had to covert using a PSP video converter program on my PC. And which I still have. And a 4gb memory card for music. And one 8gb specifically just for videogames and game saves. My PSP fit nicely in-between the register and the side of the booth. And all I had to do was hit the pause button (X button) when I would get a customer or need to direct traffic. It was great I had entire series of shows like Scrubs and Family Guy, etc. A large chunk of my music and movies. And then to top it off around 14 8disc UMD holder's full of UMD movies and TV shows. Although there were VERY few UMD television shows unfortunately. An example again would be the first 2-3 seasons of Family Guy, some Saturday night live compilations, Bevis and Butthead and Chapelle's Show. So I own about half the TV shows. But it was great and very convenient. Unfortunately it did run out / ruin my PSP battery after a few years and I had to leave it plugged in constantly. And unfortunately EVERY SINGLE PSP battery I've ever come across not made by Sony. Which are EXTREMELY hard to find. Especially over the last decade or so. Are crap and either immediately don't work out of the box. Won't charge. Or will charge and then only work a few minutes to an hour, tops. I haven't seen a reliable 3rd party PSP battery yet. Some people have gotten lucky with those but from my research and heard from others it's around 1-10%. If you're lucky. Almost all Sony batteries are dead and have been for a decade. And finding a new one is almost impossible and extremely expensive. Even an unopened official Sony battery could be dead for good and dead right out of the box. Unfortunately the PSP requires a battery to work. Even if you have it directly plugged into an outlet. So a dead battery can be useful for that and the PSP will still work. But a PSP will not work just plugged in with no battery. Just an FYI. I have around 50 games but only for when I wasn't working. I mostly used my PSP as a TV/DVD/MP4/MP3 player for almost a decade and a half. A portable DVD player will not fit in a parking booth. Or any TV or radio larger than a palm held. Which at that time in the mid and late 2,000's were your only options outside of an iPod. Which was even more expensive and had a very small amount of memory. Even low quality and condensed and converted a movie would still be 45mb to 120mb. So even a 8gb $100 ProDuo memory card or an 8gb iPod would only hold so much. Usually 10 regular length movies in low quality like 420p. Which condensed into a PSP screen didn't look horrible. A few seasons of a TV show. Or a few hundred songs. Which on an iPod you were stuck with it's internal memory it couldn't be expanded at all. Same thing for the first smart phones which were iPhones. Expandable storage and SD cards weren't really a thing until the early 2010's. Let alone a smart phone that wasn't an iPhone. with a palm held TV you were stuck with only over the air programs and couldn't pause anything. So the PSP was your best bet. It had the ability to play downloaded MP4 and M4V format files. MP3's, games and of course....UMD's. And UMD's you could have dozens and dozens of and it not take up much room and be in a small bag or book bag and basically have an entire home entertainment center in a small bag. It was great. People would just use their smart phone now and put a 500gb or 1 terabyte SD card in it or stream movies and TV off their apps like Netflix and TH-cam, etc. Which I do now. But back then that wasn't an option. And UMD's were amazing for that. And they were dirt cheap even when the PSP was fairly new. You could get UMD's for $1-$10 dollars used usually. Games were fairly cheap used as well. It was a great console and in my top three favorites. Games and everything else I was using it for. I still have everything for it. I rarely use it for movies or TV anymore. With the exception of a few shows or movies I don't own on DVD or Blu-ray. But I still use it for the games. And as a PSP 2000 model I can hook it up to my television which is unfortunately the only thing I can do because of the dead battery/batteries I have. Unfortunately no one has come up with a reliable, stable battery that's quality and works 😢😡. But before smart phones. And memory was unbelievably expensive back in the 2000's. The PSP and the UMD was a must and the go to if you wanted television, movies or entertainment on the go. The iPod was there but it was just as expensive if not more for what you'd get memory wise. And couldn't play discs or videogames. The PSP could do it all. At the time it was the best and really only option for anything that just wasn't an 8gb file player. I still love it. And I still play the occasional UMD. For the time considering how prohibitive the memory and technology was. Because everyone forgets there was a time before smart phones. And the 2000's was it. And at the time the PSP and UMD's were an amazing thing.
I have about 6 or 7 UMD Movies. Spiderman 2 came with the system if you bought it early. I still use my PSP to watch Tron, Dawn of the Dead, The Warriors and Grandma's Boy.
I have 4 of these movies i want to get rid of cheap or free Idc alien vs. Predator - the league of extraordinary gentlemen- pink panther and Narnia they are in great shape
I just collect the cartoons and the anime. I travel with work all the time, and its just great having a little dvd player in my pocket for those flights where you've already gone through every film/tv show a dozen times.
I have a small Umd movie collection. Really love IT, especially now that you could Find Them on the cheap. Awesome VHS of Alice btw. My favorite band ever
Im collecting UMD movies, here in England you can still buy them new and sealed for about £1.50 or $2.15 each and that's for the block buster movies, crappy ones sell even less or are given away for free if you buy a bunch of UMD's at once.
I loved UMD Movies, I liked being able to watch movies (without worrying about a bulky portable dvd player) on road trips and even on a flight to Seattle recently. I still like to collect these mainly cause of all the fond memories I have.
I collect these, but I also collect Laserdisc movies. I fell in love with the PSP in the fall of 2008 when I went on a long trip with my in-laws. The deciding factor between a PSP and a DS was the UMD movies.
I have a few of them including, The Crow, Total Recall, Rock and Roll High School and The Endless Summer. I use to have From Dusk Till Dawn, Both Kill Bills, Terminator 2 and a few I can't remember. I am kind of kicking myself for loosing them. It was just a fun way to watch movies on the go. I don't remember any MP3 players doing video at the time when Sony was putting these out. The PSP was so incredible back then. It's still pretty great.
Yesterday I watched my first UMD Movie "Romeo must die" on my recently bought PSP3004 cause I watched your PSP videos and liked it very well. I'm thinking to start to collect some UMD Movies but the only problem is to find them with German Audio here in Germany is the Movie UMDs harder to find then anywhere else. Thank you for your good advise Metal Jesus, I love your channel. Greetings Horst
I remember I had the TMNT movie on the PSP. Only movie I bought for the game as I bought it alongside Lego Star Wars III and Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes on a scifi convention
I've had terminator 2 and when a stranger calls for a long time, in the cases, I just went to a used bookstore and found superbad and a family Guy collection in the little paper cover and I thought it was so cool, a dollar each was worth it for sure
I recently tossed all my VHS movies in the bin. Must have been close to three hundred or so movies. I've personally fully embraced the digital future, as I ~hate~ shelves and clutter. Anything that can be digitized should be.
What's crazy is that when the medium was first introduced, it sold reasonably well, and I remember major news sources, both broadcast and print, saying that UMDs may be the future of entertainment...
I currently have 18 movies and 8 music UMDs in my collection so far. I found the first 2 Seasons of Little Britain on UMD from the UK, and it works just fine with my US PSP!
Some UMD Movies are EXTREMELY collectible. I own several, and they're all anime features. The film "X" never came out on DVD in North America, UMD is the only way to get it. Also, AKIRA released on UMD.
Hi! Just catching this thread (and starting to re-build my UMD collection). Are there other movies, TV, or music UMDs that are exclusive (ie not released on other formats in the U.S.)?
I always enjoyed the PSP for not just the games but the UMD Movies as well. I would like to get my hands on some of these in the future but I don't know if I would invest too much money into it. Great Video as always!
I was wondering the same thing. :) I bought quite a few of these when they started dropping in price. Many of them were $5 each. I had a CFW installed on my PSP and was able to copy the UMDs to iso's and store most on a single Memory Stick. It was nice to have when I had spent time in the hospital after a back surgery.
I have about..ten perhaps? I like them especially on the go. It came through in a clinch during a storm here last year where we lost power for about 4 days. I have grown to love Lords of Dogtown ; )
i collect VHS, as for the PSP UMD movies. i have a few, i got them for when i was on a road, and i could just watch them. i still have them, and what nice is i can connect my PSP to my TV and watch them, which gives them a plus for me. Personaly i like a physical vs. a digital, but i do have digital stuff. plus i had a lot of music on my PSP. no room for movies.
I only have about 8 UMD movies on the PSP, but I plan on purchasing more titles for the system. My current collection has titles like TRON, Heavy Metal, Steamboy, Appleseed, Vantage Point, Resident Evil: Degeneration and Metropolis. It's a great portable system for movies.
I love collecting the UMD movies !!!! More than the games in fact there is just something to me about watching a movie on a handheld game console that I just love
I'm an over the road truck driver and casual gamer. I love that i can hook my psp up to my tv in the truck and watch movies and play games with it on my tv.
The UMD might have had a better chance if the PS3 had a UMD drive. Charging a million dollars per movie is one thing, but making you buy it twice to play it everywhere is just a bad idea.
MJR as far as vinyl collecting is concerned have you looked into DVS (Digital Vinyl System) ? As a dj i use DVS the 2 top system to use and both reasonably priced are Traktor and Serato. I used to own over 1000+ dance records and have since moved on to DVS on my technique 1200's turntables and a DJM-900 Mixer.
Having still got my PSP collecting UMD Movies is something I've considered on a few occasions.. Thankfully though I always seem to talk myself out of it before I start seriously.. lol This video hasn't helped though by putting the thought back in my head! lol
when your power is out what are you going to do read a book? psh no you are going to pop in your fav movie on the psp and watch til the power comes back on and its a great backup to dvds since the psp 3000 can be hooked up to a tv as a replacement to a dvd player.
Deadcoolification unkown that was another problem with UMD movies, you could only play them on a PSP, and not every model had the AV output, now if Sony had released a low cost stand alone UMD Movie player, and made the Disc cheaper I might have bought into it.
Commodorefan64 i always thought of that too to possibly turn the thing into a home console as well to play on your tv kinda like the new ps vita tv... another thing i thought would be awesome is if the same device had wifi so you could stream your psp UMD game library onto other systems especially a psp go it would have definately made the psp go a much more worthwhile device not to mention it would help with the ps vita now as well to play psp classics
Hey! This is the video that made me subscribe to your channel. I think your observations are very smart and sharp, as I collect UMD's! And, shocker, i also collect vinyls! Great job on the video!
The PSP really was the #1 portable entertainment device back then as it gave you the best of both worlds. The fact that it really was the only mainstream device in terms of not only playing games but also giving the portable DVD player market a seriously good run for its money in terms of excellent video playback quality alone is what set it apart. Sure UMDs didn't take off as well as Sony expected for the points you raised but there's no disputing the versatility of the PSP itself. I personally like the UMDs form factor wise as they are relatively more robust than DVDs and Blu Rays because they don't scratch or tarnish as easily...it's almost hard to scratch these if you're not deliberate. In a way they feel like a bit of a throwback to the DataPlay disks.
Fast-forward 10 years and the prices on e bay have ski rocketed from 10$ plus shipping and for some of the bigger name movies are roughly always 40$-80$ and people put “rare” on UMD’s which also drives up the prices, so if you’re lucky enough to find them at a Goodwill, grab them when you can because the prices are only going to keep going up in price.
A spinning disk of this type/size doesn't have to use a lot of power/battery, presumably even moreso with movies than games(as it's constantly played in order, not jumping around on the disk). Later minidisc players could run for dozens of hours on a single AA battery.
I only have two UMD movies, Donnie Darko and Superbad (which came with my God of War PSP). I wouldn't mind picking up some of the anime UMD's, like the Cowboy Bebop you showed in your collection. I've only really watched them on road trips.
I actually have a few UMD movies, which include the first couple of Alien movies. The only issue however is due to the length of the movies they have cut a couple of scenes out of the movie to allow it to fit on the disc. This actually stopped me getting any more of them, although I have been tempted as you see them in most of our Cash Converters and even EB Games stores.
Just a quick reply to those who commented about watching movies on a small screen, UMD's are encoded at the same resolution as a standard DVD 720x480. You can also watch a UMD movie on an LCD TV or projector using a component cable attached to a psp 2000, 3000 model. They look and sound great too on the big screen. I know they don't have the extra's a DVD has but way cooler and much more collectable in my opinion. I also have a big DVD collection too. I'm a big Sci-Fi fan.
I collect neither vinyl nor VHS, but you can get UMD movies on ebay new and sealed quite cheap here in Europe so I buy some of those from time to time. If you want to watch the UMDs on a bigger screen, with a special SVHS cable on the PSP 3000 you can get even quite decent picture quality on old SD TVs. ;-)
I only collect the movies I really like on UMD, so far that's only about 10. A couple of them were actually birthday gifts from back in the day. When I was in the hospital waiting on my first daughter to be born in 2005, my PSP never left my side. It was the best portable media system I owned. While my UMD collection is a bit anemic, I do appreciate dead formats in general and I have about 80 discs in my laserdisc collection. In addition to collecting movies I love, like Star Wars, Raiders, etc., I try to pick up movies on LD that I've never seen before to make the experience even more interesting for me. There's something about carving out a solid chuck of time and actually sitting down to watch a film as an event, rather than catching 20 minutes here and there on my phone or tablet, etc. Plus, I love that large-format artwork!
UMD Video has a special feel than compared to other kinds of media: It’s the only proper physical video that is truly portable, GBA Video I don’t count for many reasons (mostly in the video and audio quality aspect), and they’ve become extremely cheap in recent years aside from a few. I even watched an entire season of a show once on the PSP via this format, 24 got a day on there (on 8 discs no less!). Having an entire shelf just dedicated to UMD Video (and a small bit dedicated to Music) is satisfying to have on display, they’re also nice to have in a drawer next to your bed for quick access. I also cannot deny about how bloody brilliant the audio quality of these discs are. I had watched the first series of the Office and I loved the audio quality from those so much that I kept on watching (and even converted my dvd copy to the PSP’s memory card, for consistency sake) until the end of series 2. The video quality is also excellent for the low res (in comparison to our stuff nowadays) screen of the PSP. Not gonna deny of the disc case snapping issues however, as that can be a pain to look after especially when you want to keep it intact for authenticity. TL;DR- UMD Videos maybe niche, but they are very awesome to have.
I have a small computer repair/build/consulting business and we decided to bull/sell/trade video games and systems. people are blown away that we will buy all things video game related no matter how old it is, little does everyone know i have been filling my house with all this stuff, i'm the biz owner btw. i bought a stack of 10 psp umd movies for like $5 for the lot, some were in perfect shape and others look like they were pulled from some dogs rear end, either way i felt so lucky seeing these out in the wild like that.
I have a very small collection of UMD Movies, but it's mostly just stuff I got for free (which is a lot of them, actually). The only ones I bought were Appleseed, Akira and Queen: A Night At The Opera. There's one particular set of UMD Movies I would like to get, but they are pretty expensive. The main reason I want the UMD ones is because the DVD versions of that particular set are WAY too expensive. And yes, I do collect VHS tapes as well. Only VHS tapes that haven't been re-released on DVD or Blu-Ray, though.
I still collect (whenever I can afford to) BR and DVDs and CDs (audio). I like it a lot and I get all my games on retail whenever I Can. BUT, I don't get the UMD thing for one simple reason, only one system can play them. Also, if something goes wrong with the mechanical part of that system, you can't simply replace it as you can with regular consoles/players.
I am a long haul truck driver. and the UMD movies are great for me. have almost a hundred
David Ausemus they rock!!
I remember everytime I went on long car rides, I would bring my psp with a few movies and games back when it was new.
I used to bring them around too. I bought one of those leather gamestop cases with the mesh pockets for all the umds. I could only have like 8 discs at any time so I always had to choose what to bring along.
Same. Good times
David Ausemus they were epic and underrated they should have had Star Wars and the terminator
Soldiers buy tons of these, my dad took them when he was deployed to Iraq and now owns like 150 umd movies.
Yo that’s actually mad cool. My favorite UMD movie for the PSP is The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
Currently going through a nostalgia trip with these, and I now have over 220 films and TV shows on umd, I love them
It is fun to see you much younger.
The only UMD I own is RoboCop. I love that movie and collect it on every format and version that I can find. Laserdisc, VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, ect.
Nostalgia Factor I only have alien
That's how I am with Dr strangelove
That's awesome. I was so happy when I came across the Criterion version of Robocop.
Oh man you name is so appropriate. I watched Terminator on UMD dozens of times when i was a kiddo
I have both Spider-Man 2 and Ghostbusters on UMD. Though i have the 2005 DVD, UMD Video and Rewind Collection Blu-Ray of the latter.
UMD movies were a godsend to kids who had to go on long family journies, just imagine finally being able to fit a portable DVD player in your pocket! the PSP pretty much still to this day manages to be the most compact portable disc reader that is capable of storing music, videos, photos and games to memory. I can't think of anything else that does all that whilst fitting in your pocket. personally i think Sony is terrible at noticing when they've hit something great in the portable market; UMDs would've been even more sweet if they weren't exclusive to the PSP, I would love to see stuff like UMD music players that can rip to MP3, or simply UMD video players.
smartphones and flash storage??
@@ekulipse1133 Smartphones weren't really a thing back then (keep in mind this came out in 2005), and PSP also supported MP4 video playback (which in retrospect probably wasn't helpful when you're trying to sell customers on UMDs and they're loading their ripped DVDs onto the MemoryStick instead).
100% agreed, there needed to be more UMD-capable devices. Lowering the cost a bit would've really helped, too. It's a hard sell when it's the same price as DVD, but if it's lower then you'll garner some more interest. I would've loved to see a UMD music player that hearkened back to the MiniDisc players before it, or a slim UMD video player about the size of a PSP Go that included AV out cables in the box. Video rental chains could've taken advantage of this too. You could let someone rent a few UMD movies for a week for $10, and they can enjoy those movies while on a flight or a long car ride.
I wish they did not have that UMD sticker on the discs because it blocks out some of the artwork on the disc surface.
ekulipse Back then the IPod Video was the closest you could get to a smartphone with big storage. I think that you could get one with 120gb. The iPhone came out on in -07 and only had like 4 or 8 gigs in the first models. Plus that the IPod video screen was very small, like half of a regular smartphone. The psp slim with its card reader, ability to play very good games and watch movies on a pretty big screen etc. was like the ultimate shit in -05.
It'll sound odd, but even now I'd prefer to watch a UMD on my psp. I have an iPod, I have a smart phone, but both of those rely on digital downloads. Just like my game and music collection, I want it to fill up shelves. Also, downloads don't have box art :)
5 years later and physical games are dying man most dont even come with box art anymore. I got the new pokemon 2 days ago and opened the box. All there was was a small cartridge. Nothing else no book. It's just not the same as it used to be. Everything is headed toward streaming services now
@@thighssancamel8653 yeah same on PS4 games
The DLC concept was the first and final nail in the coffin for me. After 2010 buying games regularly - at least on a monthly or tri monthly basis was no longer...Unless they were old titles off ebay etc. Shelling out $90-100 for a half baked product where I'm expected to pay extra to download shit that should already be on the disc is just way too much. Back then 'DLC' came in the form of expansion packs which at least gave you a physical tangible product to keep rather than just a virtual copy. Dont get me wrong, having virtual copies is excellent for both backup and portability, but if there's nothing physically to show for it, the product feels incredibly cheap and rather worthless. It's like cryptocurrency vs hard currency/gold standard.
Yup. We should have stayed right around 1998. People were happier and everyone was way more creative. Oh well at least we got to live during those times.
I think Metal Jesus Rocks just made UMD movie collecting cool again.
when my brother was stationed overseas we bought and shipped him a bunch of these when they were new. he would rewatch them like crazy and thought the concept was great. Way before smartphone or even iPod video
Nice man
UMD movie junkie here; I have over 100 UMD movies! When I purchased my PSP (silver) in ‘08, it came with National Treasure and I loved how crisp the video was. Then, I found out that GameStop was running a Christmas special (at that time) with a variety of UMD movies for just $5. That’s what jumpstarted my movie buying frenzy 😉 I still have & love my PSP too 👍
Btw, love your channel!
Who would want to collect them? Easy answer... (More or less what you said at the end of the video) The cinematic version of a game collector. I am not a gamer, but I am a cinema collector. Instead of having every video game format & console, I have every (with a few super rare exceptions) movie format & it's player (21 film formats to be exact). Including a PSP 3000 that I do not own a single game for, but collect UMD Video releases for. I even have a backlit GBA SP that I only use to watch GBA Videos on (there is another topic that would make a good followup). So there are those of us out there who are the cinema equivalents of the (more popular) gamer/retro-gamer, and we love UMD video!
Haha, as soon as I saw this video I said to myself, "well CinemaSickness does", alright off it is to watch another Collection update. Cheers!!
BobbiThrashoholic Haha! Sure Do! :)
you win a suscriber without see no videos of you but im on that a big cinema fan too
Not many people know this but you can hook up the psp to the tv with a psp component cord. I can tell you that those UMD movies look damn good on a hd tv. They are DVD quality. Its like having a miniature DVD player.
Well I have all DVD versions of starwars 1-6 as well as on blu Ray, The 7 and 8 can go fuck them selves because disney is trash
I have a UMD of Pink Floyd signed by Roger Waters, i never think that could be happen.
I gasped.
I remembered being amazed at how clear these UMD movies would play when I first got my PSP.
In 2001 ish I got DVD player and my friend came over and was astounded by how clear the format was compared to his VHS tapes, really is hard to describe insane it was when Blu-Ray first came out retailers still had new VCR tapes on shelves for sale.
Me too, all we had to compare it to was flip phones with their potato screens or the DS which were pixelated to shit and back. There just weren’t clear images in this form factor until the PSP.
I love UMDs! They are amazing for flights and since I am a semi-frequent flyer it is great to have them on hand. They don't offer much in ways of entertainment or snacks on planes anymore ( unless you want to pay). Plus the PSP is something I usually travel with and the UMDs are compact.
i just bought a used 3001 and watched my first UMD movie Mirror Mask. It's a little dated but functions fine. I actually liked it so much put in an order for the complete Aeon Flux Animated series for just over $5.00 shipped.
PSP, still being an impressive fun system in 2016.
Nintendo tried something similar with GBA, i remember those spongebob cartridges with episodes and stuff.
Yeah but those were super low quality & compressed - at least the UMD movies were (at the time) HD at 720.
UMD movies were not 720!
They were 480p (720x480).
And the PSP had a resolution of only 480x272.
So not really HD...
The Advance had a resolution of 240x160. And so are the movies.
Yes, but GBA Cartridge had almost no space. So it was not possible to put movies, but only less than 1h of video. So usually they just put 2 episodes from a cartoon. And watch cartoons episodes is less attractive than movies.
@@bluekewne That time it didn't exist HD, PSP started at 2004-2005, so HD was not an option that time. And considering that, if there was an UMD Player, it could be better
tonk82 It’s GameBoy advance video
I love the fact that it had movies as well... Still to this day it's my fav system both portable and home systems
Sadly I have a few.. They are great when your going long distances or say stuck at work working the graveyard shift and need something to pass the time! I want to get more, but on eBay people want waay too much for em.
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Well the same can be said about any device with a USB connection.. But that crap takes too long!! I'd rather grab my PSP and some movies/games and go! I don't have time to figure out what I want to watch on my device and convert it to a format it can see, transfer it over a slow 2.0 connection, and hope it all fits on the flash card on the device. With UMDs it's so much easier!!
I love to collect these UMD movies. Pretty cool stuff!
My local gamestop has over 100 UMD movies that they're blowing out for 2-3 bucks a pop. Nobody is buying them...
I’d buy them if I was in your area in a heartbeat
@@chrismccauley5727 SAME
I found a bunch of these movies at a DollarTree, titles like: Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist, Steamboy, Animated Series Spiderman, Dewey Cox's Walk Hard, and Nirvana's Nevermind. Not a huge fan of the volume limitations, but for a dollar apiece? Great video brother!
I dunno, UMDs might have taken off if there was a more "bang for your buck" factor to it like collections/trilogies on 1 disc or included free like the digital copies today. But mini-discs and mini-movies on a mini-screen have mini-appeal and should have had a mini-price, and therefore now have mini-attraction as mini-collectors items. In my mini-opinion.
Work nights here n there and it’s a different feeling to watch certain movies 🍿 on this device today!!
3:31- When you pulled up that Daft Punk vinyl you earned major respect from me. Discovery is my favorite album ever (although I have it on CD instead of vinyl).
Wow, now there is a blast from the past I completely forgot about. My PSP even came with one of these, and I forgot it could play them.
Can't believe I watched family Guy and Lord's of Dogtown on it as a kid
Love the show, I've started expanding my collection of psp games and now included a few movies with plans to get more
I watched Batman begins for the first time on umd back in the day. Very enjoyable experience
I bought a few of them years ago. UMD made a good way to watch movies when I was living in an Army barracks and didn't have much room for video games and movies in my wall locker.
I always thought there should be way more live concert UMDs. Watching a few songs on a lunch break or car ride made more sense to me than watching parts of a movie.
Also thought that it was a big mistake for Sony to "forget" a TV connection for the PSP-1000. Nintendo had been doing it since the original GameBoy, you would think that Sony would have done it right away too.
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You could play your Game Boy games on your Super Nintendo if you had a Super Game Boy.
I hope MetalJesus covers more psp stuff. Such a good hand held yet not enough channel give an attention.
I love collecting dead formats (I have a ton of Dreamcast games and HD DVDs), I'm thinking about getting into collection UMD movies next. I still remember gaming journalists singing the praises of these declaring it would help Sony crush the Nintendo DS. Hindsight can be a real bitch...
I've been collecting umd video for along time it's my favorite way to watch movies without being bothered. I'm glad to hear you collect them too. My favorite movie on psp will always be clerks and they actually added bonus features for that one, but the movie national treasure 2 was never released with a full case. It just had a slip cover cause it was bundled with a system. But in the uk there were a lot of newer releases like coraline and the newest Harry potter most region free.
It was cool but i used to rip movies and save it on the memory stick, the psp screen was very vivid, with my akg headphones was my portable cinema.
I collect them! I think what made the figurative lightbulb go on in my head was looking beyond UMD as something just for gaming and viewing it as a “lost” video format akin to CED, Laserdisc or even Betamax (which was itself another Sony attempted format). Looking at it that way made collecting quite fun. Interestingly, there are some films, like the anime “Perfect Blue”, which are long out of print on DVD, but available on UMD for a fraction of the cost. Taking into consideration that a PSP 3000+Component cables+AC adaptor means you have an easy to set up movie player that is good to go even on a modern TV, it all becomes that much more appealing.
0:25 Man feel like "hold my beer" here.
Sony could have made UMDs a bigger success if they launched alongside UMD movies, a dvd player for tvs that also had a little UMD slot.
That way UMDs would have not just been for the psp, but if you wanted you could put them on a big screen
If u have a 2000 or 3000 you can buy a cable and plug it to ur tv then play your movies and games and all that fun stuff
I feel like in an alternate reality this replaced DVD and minidisc replaced CD.
I loved the PSP movies. What surprises me was the commentary in Big Trouble in Little China.
Just got old school rare as hell 1987 dawn of the dead on umd just this week with fast and furious, burnout legends, and Prince of Persia revelations.
1977 and i have a signed by copy by ken foree
I have around 200 personally. Although I wasn't collecting just to collect them because they're unique. For 12 years I was a Booth Attendant at a local college. Parking booths are not large. So you can only fit a very small radio or hand held TV. Or in my case a PSP. I also ended up buying 10-12 8gb ProDuo memory cards. The largest size at the time in the mid and late 2000's. And also $100 a piece at the time so ended up costing me $1000-$1400. Which I have my entire MP4 library on. Movies and TV shows. Which I had to covert using a PSP video converter program on my PC. And which I still have. And a 4gb memory card for music. And one 8gb specifically just for videogames and game saves. My PSP fit nicely in-between the register and the side of the booth. And all I had to do was hit the pause button (X button) when I would get a customer or need to direct traffic. It was great I had entire series of shows like Scrubs and Family Guy, etc. A large chunk of my music and movies. And then to top it off around 14 8disc UMD holder's full of UMD movies and TV shows. Although there were VERY few UMD television shows unfortunately. An example again would be the first 2-3 seasons of Family Guy, some Saturday night live compilations, Bevis and Butthead and Chapelle's Show. So I own about half the TV shows. But it was great and very convenient. Unfortunately it did run out / ruin my PSP battery after a few years and I had to leave it plugged in constantly. And unfortunately EVERY SINGLE PSP battery I've ever come across not made by Sony. Which are EXTREMELY hard to find. Especially over the last decade or so. Are crap and either immediately don't work out of the box. Won't charge. Or will charge and then only work a few minutes to an hour, tops. I haven't seen a reliable 3rd party PSP battery yet. Some people have gotten lucky with those but from my research and heard from others it's around 1-10%. If you're lucky. Almost all Sony batteries are dead and have been for a decade. And finding a new one is almost impossible and extremely expensive. Even an unopened official Sony battery could be dead for good and dead right out of the box. Unfortunately the PSP requires a battery to work. Even if you have it directly plugged into an outlet. So a dead battery can be useful for that and the PSP will still work. But a PSP will not work just plugged in with no battery. Just an FYI. I have around 50 games but only for when I wasn't working. I mostly used my PSP as a TV/DVD/MP4/MP3 player for almost a decade and a half. A portable DVD player will not fit in a parking booth. Or any TV or radio larger than a palm held. Which at that time in the mid and late 2,000's were your only options outside of an iPod. Which was even more expensive and had a very small amount of memory. Even low quality and condensed and converted a movie would still be 45mb to 120mb. So even a 8gb $100 ProDuo memory card or an 8gb iPod would only hold so much. Usually 10 regular length movies in low quality like 420p. Which condensed into a PSP screen didn't look horrible. A few seasons of a TV show. Or a few hundred songs. Which on an iPod you were stuck with it's internal memory it couldn't be expanded at all. Same thing for the first smart phones which were iPhones. Expandable storage and SD cards weren't really a thing until the early 2010's. Let alone a smart phone that wasn't an iPhone. with a palm held TV you were stuck with only over the air programs and couldn't pause anything. So the PSP was your best bet. It had the ability to play downloaded MP4 and M4V format files. MP3's, games and of course....UMD's. And UMD's you could have dozens and dozens of and it not take up much room and be in a small bag or book bag and basically have an entire home entertainment center in a small bag. It was great. People would just use their smart phone now and put a 500gb or 1 terabyte SD card in it or stream movies and TV off their apps like Netflix and TH-cam, etc. Which I do now. But back then that wasn't an option. And UMD's were amazing for that. And they were dirt cheap even when the PSP was fairly new. You could get UMD's for $1-$10 dollars used usually. Games were fairly cheap used as well. It was a great console and in my top three favorites. Games and everything else I was using it for. I still have everything for it. I rarely use it for movies or TV anymore. With the exception of a few shows or movies I don't own on DVD or Blu-ray. But I still use it for the games. And as a PSP 2000 model I can hook it up to my television which is unfortunately the only thing I can do because of the dead battery/batteries I have. Unfortunately no one has come up with a reliable, stable battery that's quality and works 😢😡. But before smart phones. And memory was unbelievably expensive back in the 2000's. The PSP and the UMD was a must and the go to if you wanted television, movies or entertainment on the go. The iPod was there but it was just as expensive if not more for what you'd get memory wise. And couldn't play discs or videogames. The PSP could do it all. At the time it was the best and really only option for anything that just wasn't an 8gb file player. I still love it. And I still play the occasional UMD. For the time considering how prohibitive the memory and technology was. Because everyone forgets there was a time before smart phones. And the 2000's was it. And at the time the PSP and UMD's were an amazing thing.
I have about 6 or 7 UMD Movies. Spiderman 2 came with the system if you bought it early. I still use my PSP to watch Tron, Dawn of the Dead, The Warriors and Grandma's Boy.
I remember when I was a kid I had a PSP and I was always traveling long journeys and j always watch Ghostbusters on UMD Movie over and over
Ohmaygad, that Daft Punk vinyl is my favourite album of all time
I collect these even today. I love them! Nice to see them getting some love
I have 4 of these movies i want to get rid of cheap or free Idc alien vs. Predator - the league of extraordinary gentlemen- pink panther and Narnia they are in great shape
I just collect the cartoons and the anime. I travel with work all the time, and its just great having a little dvd player in my pocket for those flights where you've already gone through every film/tv show a dozen times.
The nice thing about collecting vinyl is that you can have the vinyl and (with right equipment) a digital copy.
I have a small Umd movie collection. Really love IT, especially now that you could Find Them on the cheap. Awesome VHS of Alice btw. My favorite band ever
Im collecting UMD movies, here in England you can still buy them new and sealed for about £1.50 or $2.15 each and that's for the block buster movies, crappy ones sell even less or are given away for free if you buy a bunch of UMD's at once.
I loved UMD Movies, I liked being able to watch movies (without worrying about a bulky portable dvd player) on road trips and even on a flight to Seattle recently. I still like to collect these mainly cause of all the fond memories I have.
I collect these, but I also collect Laserdisc movies. I fell in love with the PSP in the fall of 2008 when I went on a long trip with my in-laws. The deciding factor between a PSP and a DS was the UMD movies.
I have a few of them including, The Crow, Total Recall, Rock and Roll High School and The Endless Summer. I use to have From Dusk Till Dawn, Both Kill Bills, Terminator 2 and a few I can't remember. I am kind of kicking myself for loosing them. It was just a fun way to watch movies on the go. I don't remember any MP3 players doing video at the time when Sony was putting these out. The PSP was so incredible back then. It's still pretty great.
Yesterday I watched my first UMD Movie "Romeo must die" on my recently bought PSP3004 cause I watched your PSP videos and liked it very well.
I'm thinking to start to collect some UMD Movies but the only problem is to find them with German Audio here in Germany is the Movie UMDs harder to find then anywhere else.
Thank you for your good advise Metal Jesus, I love your channel.
Greetings Horst
I remember I had the TMNT movie on the PSP. Only movie I bought for the game as I bought it alongside Lego Star Wars III and Star Wars Clone Wars: Republic Heroes on a scifi convention
When he was in his sixties, and nearing retirement, my dad got really into PSP movies. He'd watch them on the bus to and from work.
I've had terminator 2 and when a stranger calls for a long time, in the cases, I just went to a used bookstore and found superbad and a family Guy collection in the little paper cover and I thought it was so cool, a dollar each was worth it for sure
I recently tossed all my VHS movies in the bin. Must have been close to three hundred or so movies. I've personally fully embraced the digital future, as I ~hate~ shelves and clutter. Anything that can be digitized should be.
What's crazy is that when the medium was first introduced, it sold reasonably well, and I remember major news sources, both broadcast and print, saying that UMDs may be the future of entertainment...
to this day I still dont understand why the minidisc failed, i mean they were smaller, better and couldnt be scratched, whats not to like?
im not talking about umd's for psp's im talking about minidiscs that sony invented
Jimmy Burke Because normal CDs are cheap as fuck and minidiscs were overpriced back in the days
CD-Rs, MP3 players killed them
Liking the end roll with you and your psp! Made me smile :)
I currently have 18 movies and 8 music UMDs in my collection so far. I found the first 2 Seasons of Little Britain on UMD from the UK, and it works just fine with my US PSP!
Some UMD Movies are EXTREMELY collectible. I own several, and they're all anime features. The film "X" never came out on DVD in North America, UMD is the only way to get it. Also, AKIRA released on UMD.
Hi! Just catching this thread (and starting to re-build my UMD collection). Are there other movies, TV, or music UMDs that are exclusive (ie not released on other formats in the U.S.)?
I always enjoyed the PSP for not just the games but the UMD Movies as well. I would like to get my hands on some of these in the future but I don't know if I would invest too much money into it. Great Video as always!
I was wondering the same thing. :) I bought quite a few of these when they started dropping in price. Many of them were $5 each. I had a CFW installed on my PSP and was able to copy the UMDs to iso's and store most on a single Memory Stick. It was nice to have when I had spent time in the hospital after a back surgery.
i would like to collect UMD films because they look cool and i like movies that you can watch on your console everywhere you are idk just love em :)
CatFat ikr me too
I have about..ten perhaps? I like them especially on the go. It came through in a clinch during a storm here last year where we lost power for about 4 days. I have grown to love Lords of Dogtown ; )
i collect VHS, as for the PSP UMD movies. i have a few, i got them for when i was on a road, and i could just watch them. i still have them, and what nice is i can connect my PSP to my TV and watch them, which gives them a plus for me. Personaly i like a physical vs. a digital, but i do have digital stuff. plus i had a lot of music on my PSP. no room for movies.
I only have about 8 UMD movies on the PSP, but I plan on purchasing more titles for the system. My current collection has titles like TRON, Heavy Metal, Steamboy, Appleseed, Vantage Point, Resident Evil: Degeneration and Metropolis. It's a great portable system for movies.
I love collecting the UMD movies !!!! More than the games in fact there is just something to me about watching a movie on a handheld game console that I just love
I'm an over the road truck driver and casual gamer. I love that i can hook my psp up to my tv in the truck and watch movies and play games with it on my tv.
The UMD might have had a better chance if the PS3 had a UMD drive. Charging a million dollars per movie is one thing, but making you buy it twice to play it everywhere is just a bad idea.
MJR as far as vinyl collecting is concerned have you looked into DVS (Digital Vinyl System) ? As a dj i use DVS the 2 top system to use and both reasonably priced are Traktor and Serato. I used to own over 1000+ dance records and have since moved on to DVS on my technique 1200's turntables and a DJM-900 Mixer.
I collect these as well. Fun format to have on trips
Having still got my PSP collecting UMD Movies is something I've considered on a few occasions.. Thankfully though I always seem to talk myself out of it before I start seriously.. lol
This video hasn't helped though by putting the thought back in my head! lol
when your power is out what are you going to do read a book? psh no you are going to pop in your fav movie on the psp and watch til the power comes back on and its a great backup to dvds since the psp 3000 can be hooked up to a tv as a replacement to a dvd player.
Deadcoolification unkown that was another problem with UMD movies, you could only play them on a PSP, and not every model had the AV output, now if Sony had released a low cost stand alone UMD Movie player, and made the Disc cheaper I might have bought into it.
hmmm, i wonder if we could ask ben heck to build one on the ben heck show.
Deadcoolification unkown Now that would be cool to see.
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i always thought of that too to possibly turn the thing into a home console as well to play on your tv kinda like the new ps vita tv... another thing i thought would be awesome is if the same device had wifi so you could stream your psp UMD game library onto other systems especially a psp go it would have definately made the psp go a much more worthwhile device not to mention it would help with the ps vita now as well to play psp classics
I have researched those types of movies and it shows that there may be around a 1000 of those movies that was made for the PSP
I like these. They're just so cool. I can also use them when my phone has no wifi or if it's dead
Hey! This is the video that made me subscribe to your channel. I think your observations are very smart and sharp, as I collect UMD's! And, shocker, i also collect vinyls!
Great job on the video!
i just have a few of the psp umd movies i will still watch them once in a while
As a railroader the psp is a must for the road/hotels and cabs.
I have a minor UMD collection but I just got into the PSP last year
The PSP really was the #1 portable entertainment device back then as it gave you the best of both worlds. The fact that it really was the only mainstream device in terms of not only playing games but also giving the portable DVD player market a seriously good run for its money in terms of excellent video playback quality alone is what set it apart. Sure UMDs didn't take off as well as Sony expected for the points you raised but there's no disputing the versatility of the PSP itself. I personally like the UMDs form factor wise as they are relatively more robust than DVDs and Blu Rays because they don't scratch or tarnish as easily...it's almost hard to scratch these if you're not deliberate. In a way they feel like a bit of a throwback to the DataPlay disks.
I do, I have about 136 of them including 12 UK imports. I love them, trying to find a complete list of the us releases.
Fast-forward 10 years and the prices on e bay have ski rocketed from 10$ plus shipping and for some of the bigger name movies are roughly always 40$-80$ and people put “rare” on UMD’s which also drives up the prices, so if you’re lucky enough to find them at a Goodwill, grab them when you can because the prices are only going to keep going up in price.
A spinning disk of this type/size doesn't have to use a lot of power/battery, presumably even moreso with movies than games(as it's constantly played in order, not jumping around on the disk). Later minidisc players could run for dozens of hours on a single AA battery.
Wow never really gave it a thought. Might be fun to collect
I only have two UMD movies, Donnie Darko and Superbad (which came with my God of War PSP). I wouldn't mind picking up some of the anime UMD's, like the Cowboy Bebop you showed in your collection. I've only really watched them on road trips.
Got a PSP with my graduation money and have loved it ever since. think i had spiderman and resident evil on the movie UMD
I actually have a few UMD movies, which include the first couple of Alien movies. The only issue however is due to the length of the movies they have cut a couple of scenes out of the movie to allow it to fit on the disc. This actually stopped me getting any more of them, although I have been tempted as you see them in most of our Cash Converters and even EB Games stores.
Nice I’m trying to collect some
I respect your choice of vinyl prop.
Just a quick reply to those who commented about watching movies on a small screen, UMD's are encoded at the same resolution as a standard DVD 720x480. You can also watch a UMD movie on an LCD TV or projector using a component cable attached to a psp 2000, 3000 model. They look and sound great too on the big screen. I know they don't have the extra's a DVD has but way cooler and much more collectable in my opinion. I also have a big DVD collection too. I'm a big Sci-Fi fan.
I collect neither vinyl nor VHS, but you can get UMD movies on ebay new and sealed quite cheap here in Europe so I buy some of those from time to time.
If you want to watch the UMDs on a bigger screen, with a special SVHS cable on the PSP 3000 you can get even quite decent picture quality on old SD TVs. ;-)
I only collect the movies I really like on UMD, so far that's only about 10. A couple of them were actually birthday gifts from back in the day. When I was in the hospital waiting on my first daughter to be born in 2005, my PSP never left my side. It was the best portable media system I owned. While my UMD collection is a bit anemic, I do appreciate dead formats in general and I have about 80 discs in my laserdisc collection. In addition to collecting movies I love, like Star Wars, Raiders, etc., I try to pick up movies on LD that I've never seen before to make the experience even more interesting for me. There's something about carving out a solid chuck of time and actually sitting down to watch a film as an event, rather than catching 20 minutes here and there on my phone or tablet, etc. Plus, I love that large-format artwork!
I remember watching Ghostbusters on the UMD during a 5 hour road trip, great times, now they’re all going digital on smartphones & tablets.
UMD Video has a special feel than compared to other kinds of media: It’s the only proper physical video that is truly portable, GBA Video I don’t count for many reasons (mostly in the video and audio quality aspect), and they’ve become extremely cheap in recent years aside from a few. I even watched an entire season of a show once on the PSP via this format, 24 got a day on there (on 8 discs no less!). Having an entire shelf just dedicated to UMD Video (and a small bit dedicated to Music) is satisfying to have on display, they’re also nice to have in a drawer next to your bed for quick access.
I also cannot deny about how bloody brilliant the audio quality of these discs are. I had watched the first series of the Office and I loved the audio quality from those so much that I kept on watching (and even converted my dvd copy to the PSP’s memory card, for consistency sake) until the end of series 2. The video quality is also excellent for the low res (in comparison to our stuff nowadays) screen of the PSP. Not gonna deny of the disc case snapping issues however, as that can be a pain to look after especially when you want to keep it intact for authenticity. TL;DR- UMD Videos maybe niche, but they are very awesome to have.
I have a small computer repair/build/consulting business and we decided to bull/sell/trade video games and systems. people are blown away that we will buy all things video game related no matter how old it is, little does everyone know i have been filling my house with all this stuff, i'm the biz owner btw. i bought a stack of 10 psp umd movies for like $5 for the lot, some were in perfect shape and others look like they were pulled from some dogs rear end, either way i felt so lucky seeing these out in the wild like that.
Only UMD I own are The Silent Hill Experience!
I'm thinking of starting a UMD collection.
I used to love these mud movies are they still made to this day?
I have a very small collection of UMD Movies, but it's mostly just stuff I got for free (which is a lot of them, actually). The only ones I bought were Appleseed, Akira and Queen: A Night At The Opera.
There's one particular set of UMD Movies I would like to get, but they are pretty expensive. The main reason I want the UMD ones is because the DVD versions of that particular set are WAY too expensive.
And yes, I do collect VHS tapes as well. Only VHS tapes that haven't been re-released on DVD or Blu-Ray, though.
I still collect (whenever I can afford to) BR and DVDs and CDs (audio). I like it a lot and I get all my games on retail whenever I Can. BUT, I don't get the UMD thing for one simple reason, only one system can play them. Also, if something goes wrong with the mechanical part of that system, you can't simply replace it as you can with regular consoles/players.