Re:Possibly why Memory Stick video can't be 480x27 (Score 1)

I'm sure this was Sony's original intention. After all, why would anyone pay the same price for a UMD as for a DVD which they could easily rip and watch with the same quality on the PSP. Even though the quality is better, I still haven't bought a single UMD. Sony's pricing policy was way off with that one. UMD's should have cost $10 each. If they were cheap enough then some people would have bought them instead of going through the hassle of trying to convert the DVD's. Either way, the original poster was correct. UMD's are dead. And if Sony waved a full screen encoding carrot in front of me to upgrade to 2.9 or 3.0, I would be there in a second.