It can hold up to 1. While the primary application for UMD discs is as a storage medium for PSP games, the format is also used for the storage of motion pictures and, to a lesser degree, television shows for playback on the PSP.
The video is encoded in the H. Some adult films have been released on UMD in Japan. However, all PSP games are region-free. The UMD format never saw implementation on any device other than the PlayStation Portable , and as a result the market was very limited compared to those for other optical media formats. Buyers were generally put off by the high price of UMD releases, which often retailed at comparable prices to but lacked the extra content found on DVDs. Poor sales of UMD movies early in the format's life had caused major studios Universal and Paramount to rescind their support.
By most non-specialty retail stores had stopped bringing in new UMD movies and no longer had a separate section devoted to them, with a few stray unsold titles mixed in among the regular PSP games. Since , there have been no more movies released on UMD [13]. The successor of the PlayStation Portable, the PlayStation Vita , dropped UMD support entirely in a move similar to the PSP Go, focusing instead on digital downloads and opting for low-profile flash-based media for its retail software.
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