PC Store won't kill off UMD, says Sony. The newly-launched PlayStation Store for PC does not spell the end of the road for Sony's Universal Media Disc format, according to Darren Cairns, ...

Sony released some pricing details yesterday on its studio titles for the upcoming Blu-ray format. New releases will retail for $23.45, while catalog titles, such as the Van Damme-Rodman classic ...

If Sony eliminates the UMD drive, it could open the PSP2 to a new, wider audience, and perhaps gain momentum in the market. The buzz is that the PSP2 would be a fully digital, online device.

UMD film sales top 100,000 - Sony. Sales of film content on Universal Media Disc have topped 100,000, Sony reportedly said this week, and that figure does not include bundled copies of Spider-Man 2.

Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has explained why the UMD Passport system, which allows Japanese gamers to pay to transfer their UMD-based PSP games to a Vita, isn't coming to the US ...

Sony is rumoured to be developing the PSP 2 for release possibly as early as autumn of this year, and it may abolish the UMD format in favour of digital downloads ...

Sony has submitted the UMD optical disc as an official standard for movies and and software, allowing other companies to produce content that will play on the Sony PSP (as well as new devices that ...

Sony bossman of product planning, Naoya Matsui, has stated that the company always planned to eventually release a UMD-free PSP once the digital distribution market matured.

Following up a post from yesterday, we heard a Target employee noticed prerecorded movies distributed on Sony UMDs (an acronym meaning UnMitigated Disaster, um, rather, Universal Media Disc) were ...