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Originally posted by dr_doom@Dec 18 2005, 11:31 PM
yeah, but do you have 2 dvd players, an xbox, or a computer with you when you are anywhere away from home?
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Personally, I have at least one laptop and my portable DVD player. That's besides the point, however, as frankly, this is one of my biggest problems with the PSP (and it's not one that's easily rectified, so I'm not blaming Sony engineering on this particular point): that it doesn't actually play DVDs.
I have a collection of DVDs that's of decent size and of considerable cost. Now, with that in mind, a PSP will only play UMD movies (of which the selection is far lower than that of DVDs), an incompatible format. Hence, should I want to watch something from my current collection I would have to go out and hope to find the same titles in UMD format and lay down more money (and UMDs aren't exactly cheap) for something I already have. Now, while I'm sure that the VHS-to-DVD argument will arise, UMD is not a DVD killer or even replacement, it's just one more way Sony is trying to get people to waste money on a wacky new format that only they support (*cough*minidisc*cough*betamax*cough*etc ad infinitum).
UMD movies on the PSP are far from a selling point for most everyone I know.