Harry Potter Temporarily Resurrects UMD Video

By Spencer . July 15, 2009 . 11:15am

Harry Potter Temporarily Resurrects UMD Video

Sony is aggressively shifting towards digital downloads, but apparently Warner Brothers still believes in UMD video. They’re celebrating the launch of the latest Harry Potter movie with a UMD box set containing the first five films.

 

The Harry Potter collection has five movies on five UMDs and it’s only being released in Europe. Since PSPs are region coded for video, but not games, you won’t be able to watch these films if you have a Region 1 North American PSP. Region 2 PSPs — Japanese and European PSPs can play the movies, though.

 

Since the PSP Go is right around the corner I don’t think this will get a huge print run. So, take note Harry Potter fans and track this down before it becomes an obscure collectable sold on eBay!


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  • MadMirko

    XD

    That's almost unbelievable! I'd really like to meet the person responsible for that decision. At the very least I would thank them for one of the best laughs today.

  • JeremyR

    Personally, I think the only real trouble with UMD movies are the price. I was in Best Buy today, and some of the UMD movies were $25. No wonder they don't sell, priced at $10 more than dvds. ''

    If they had sold them at $5 a piece (what I've bought the ones I own for, at least), it would have worked out a lot better…

  • Aoshi00

    Even at $5 or $10, UMD is still not worth it since you could get a DVD at that price now, w/ Blu-rays being the high end media. The PSP screen is too small to enjoy a movie, and it's a hassle to connect to the big TV via PSP-2000's video out.

    The funny thing is I assume most Potter fans would already own all of these movies on DVD, and might double-dip by upgrading to Blu-ray, not downgrading to the useless UMDs..

  • MadMirko

    XD

    That's almost unbelievable! I'd really like to meet the person responsible for that decision. At the very least I would thank them for one of the best laughs today.

  • JeremyR

    Personally, I think the only real trouble with UMD movies are the price. I was in Best Buy today, and some of the UMD movies were $25. No wonder they don't sell, priced at $10 more than dvds. ''

    If they had sold them at $5 a piece (what I've bought the ones I own for, at least), it would have worked out a lot better…

  • Aoshi00

    Even at $5 or $10, UMD is still not worth it since you could get a DVD at that price now, w/ Blu-rays being the high end media. The PSP screen is too small to enjoy a movie, and it's a hassle to connect to the big TV via PSP-2000's video out.

    The funny thing is I assume most Potter fans would already own all of these movies on DVD, and might double-dip by upgrading to Blu-ray, not downgrading to the useless UMDs.. I actually do have a Jpn 2000 to view this Euro UMDs if I want, lol..

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