The PSP's cute little video format - UMD Video

JUNKO IS BACK! Come watch some movies and television shows (and perhaps a booba tape or two) with your favorite can of trash on what is perhaps the cutest video format ever made...UMD Video for the Sony PSP.

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[DarkOverlord]

I had a friend who owned a PSP and one time he asked for the PSP port of the PS2 Ghost Rider game for his birthday... or, rather, he asked for "Ghost Rider on PSP, " but his parents ended up giving him the UMD release of the movie by accident.

[MajorMechazawa]

I sadly never owned a PSP back in the day, but I’ll forever take pride in the fact I own a UMD Video copy of Godzilla: Final Wars

[TiNRiB]

I got Spiderman 2 UMD when i registered my PSP.
The video quality back in 2005 was fucking mind blowing!

[treysandbothe]

I genuinely only thought there was like 8 UMD movies total because I've only ever seen the same ones everywhere--finding out they have things like "Akira" and "Paprika" is neat.

[mxtorres]

I had the Fantastic Four. I remember everyone wanting to sit next to me on the bus

[vagamer]

Perfect Blue, Akira, and Paprika on UMD is such a crazy concept.

[FrameRater]

In Canada at least, UMD movies were expensive up until the PSP was discontinued. Usually they were MORE expensive than PSP games! As a result of course they never seemed to get off the shelves, lol. It's wild to hear they were in bargain bins over there, definitely not where I grew up.

[J.Wick.]

The PSP, and it's games and movies were a lifesaver for me in the Navy in 2004-2010. So handy to have on the ship.

[kirishima]

Sony was planning to make a stand-alone UMD player so the PSP wouldn’t be the only platform that could use the disks and they patented a v2 design with a more robust case and higher capacity but that never happened.

The tech was moving so fast. It was less than a year later that Sony introduced the PS3 which popularised BluRay.

[nickb]

I really enjoy collecting UMD movies. There’s something pleasing about having a physical movie in such a small format.

[doofusdan_]

Leave it to Junko to make me care about even more obscure movie releases. In all seriousness though, I always love tuning into this channel to hear about these.

[CosmicKangaroo]

I absolutely loved buying movies for my PSP, and i watched all of mine on so many road trips. Watching spiderman, Talladega nights, and the day after tomorrow will always be treasured memories for me.

[SplendidCoffee]

I loved these UMDs! I used to watch Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies on my old Darth Vader PSP all of the time

[Dairunt]

Consider that, in 2004, PSP memory sticks were not bigger than 32MB or 64MB. A format like the UMD was needed to kickstart the console. I love the PSP as I see it as the first rays of sunshine of the mobile revolution we've seen with the iPhone and beyond.

[GreenskullAI]

Honestly, I feel like the Harry Potter UMDs could be worth good money some day.

[thehallowayboys]

When the world needed him most, he returned!

[ethanisfancy]

I'm fully convinced that Junko is the first person to actually watch The Whale, and he did it on a PSP

[stashmerkin]

Surprisingly the UMD version of Monty Python & the Holy Grail is a slightly different cut from the VHS version that was found in Blockbusters and such.

[GorTheMovieGod]

Always a good day when my boy Junko uploads. Especially when it's PSP related.

[keegansheppard]

I just wanna say that I'm so glad that there's someone else who appreciates the PSP as much as I do. It's been my favorite for years, and I felt like an insane person for liking it this much. You make me feel a little less craz- well... a little less alone.