I just bought the psp. first of all, i'd like to say it's great. I love the design. However, i doubt the UMD will every be big... even if sony decides to make other devices that use it. the main reason, because it' proporitory. psps' would already sell alot... but think of a competing system *hint hint to someone* if the hand held system took 3 inch recordable DVD.
I was going to agree with you because I thought you were talking about the University of Maryland...but now I don't know what you're talking about.
I was thinking you were referring to the home of the terrapins too. I like UMD though. I think it's pretty. Long live Testudo.
This guy I know in Katy, named Andy, used to go to Maryland. I never knew what TERRAPINS were until I met him. Come to think of it, I had never heard the word TERRAPINS. it's PROPRIETARY, Kyakko dude.
FWIW, I seem to remember reading something about Sony being open to opening up UMD if sales aren't too bad, allowing us to burn our own stuff onto UMDs. I'm not sure if they were just saying that to get sales, or exactly what good sales would have to be, but it would be awesome if they did open up the format. Instead of paying $100-$200 for a 1 GB memory card, I could just buy some blank UMDs (cheaper than DVD's) and burn some of my music, movies, etc. on to that. They are opening up to MP3, so maybe they are going away from some of their whole proprietary stuff. It probably depends on how much that Stringer guy cares about this stuff. I want to say he hates that kind of stuff too (proprietary), but I'm not sure. I believe the head of SCE, Ken Kutaragi, doesn't like it; in fact, I think he was trying to push Sony to do something like the iPod before the iPod, but they were afraid to do so or something like that. Oh well, I getting off-topic and talking about stuff I know little about. Let's just hope that they do open it up. As for the whole UMD=Maryland, I actually mistaken someone meaning University of Maryland for Universal Media Disc in a thread not to long ago. I was a little shocked to see it since it didn't seem to belong. I guess you can see where my mind is most of the time.
