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Sony to release movies for PSP

11 February 2005 13:06 by Petteri "dRD" Pyyny | 12 comments

Sony announced today that it plans to launch four movie titles in UMD format, used by the Sony's hand-held PSP console and one additional movie to be bundled with the PSP console once it will be released in the United States.

The movie line-up includes titles produced by Sony's movie unit, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Movies that are about to be released on 19th of April are Hellboy, XXX, Resident Evil 2 and Once Upon A Time in Mexico. The movie that will ship bundled with the American version of the PSP will be Spider-Man 2.

Sony will use AVC as its video encoding format for the movies and all movies will use 16:9 aspect ratio. Unfortunately the movies will use "advanced copy protection mechanism" in order to block unauthorized copying of the movies. Pricing of the movies remains a mystery, but Sony has promised to start selling UMD movies also in Japan in April with Europe to follow later.

Source: Sony's press release

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philipman (Senior Member) 11 February 2005 15:12
How advanced is this copy right protection. Whould there be any way to copy these discs because that would be kool. [ + quote]
MXGzX (Member) 11 February 2005 16:34
....people don't know yet are there even any movies in japan for psp? I don't think so [ + quote]
punx777 (Senior Member) 11 February 2005 20:18
im sure these will be copyable, sony is going to release the UMD format still right? [ + quote]
rdevanat (Junior Member) 11 February 2005 20:32
What is meant by this: "Unfortunately the movies will use "advanced copy protection mechanism" in order to block unauthorized copying of the movies". Basically it is saying it is rather unfortunate unauthorised copying is not possible with the advanced copyright. Whats unfortunate about it? Isnt thatw hat Sony wants!!! [ + quote]
dRD (I hate titles) 11 February 2005 22:35
rdevanat: Having a copy protection on movies/CDs/whatever: a) restricts "fair use rights" available in most countries b) wastes consumers' money, as companies spend millions -- if not billions -- for these schemes despite the fact that they will get cracked eventually anyway. And obviously all development costs are always added to the prices that consumers pay for those items. [ + quote]
daemonzx6 (Senior Member) 12 February 2005 15:50
haha, they will probably use arccos or something else that AnyDVD can crack before anybody ever notices the protection is in place. [ + quote]
SiD_UK (Newbie) 13 February 2005 5:30
There is already a conversion tool to convert movies onto a memory card to be watched on the PSP, I have an imported version and it works a cracker :P [ + quote]
neewbie (Member) 14 February 2005 17:37
People will crack it. :-) [ + quote]
CHADSR (Junior Member) 20 February 2005 13:55
There is the conversion software which may work since you can hook up your psp to your pc and transfer data to your memory card but only time will tell. [ + quote]
JAYO1980 (Inactive) 20 February 2005 19:21
i cant copy troy or gone in 60 seconds with any software any ideas [ + quote]
JAYO1980 (Inactive) 20 February 2005 19:28
i tried DVD Decrypter the newest one can figure out how to up date it it wont says timed out. i tried shrink x copy everything [ + quote]
slick21 (Newbie) 27 February 2005 10:15
According to [ http://sonypsp.tblog.com ] and IGN theres going to be PSP with a Harddrive in, So pirateing movies will be no big deal for criminals. lol And 50Gigs would be alot of movies. Like a hundred or sumthin :-P [ + quote]