Mord Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 I have a few only that I bought dirt cheap. Otherwise, I'd have none. Pretty much the same for me. I suppose I should check the dollar stores around me if they really are showing up there. Paying a dollar or two isn't that bad if the movie itself is at least half way interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 This thread got me wanting to start to collect. I just bought four cheapies, most >$5 (One was $7, but one was free!) I just started looking and it seems like all the movies that are actually movies and not TV shows or other stuff are still very expensive, at least around here. I saw "50 First Dates" in a store, they wanted $14 for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotterpop Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I've got about a dozen of these UMD movies and I think it's a pretty cool format. But my biggest gripe about the UMD is its plastic shell. These things are WAY too flimsy and prone to breakage. The clear window can easily fall out of place and keep your disc from working. And the white plastic frame can split open or crack very easily. It's a shame that the replacement "sandwich" style cases are 10 times better than what Sony came up with. They should have just stuck with the minidisc case. Squares are way more stackable/manageable that that goofy UMD shape! BTW, @Metal Jesus: I've got that Heavy Metal UMD also. It's one of the few movies I have on multiple formats... awesome film with the best soundtrack ever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 (edited) If your in to anime Right Stuf as a few UMDs still available http://www.rightstuf.com/1-800-338-6827/catalogmgr/aosVoZfDT0qjWzNKt0/browse/search/5/4/0/0/results/desc/asc/50/1 I have one UMD Video disc, the first two episodes of Trigun, and I bought it from RightStuf a few years ago specifically just to have a UMD Video disc. The PlayStation Store was already offering video content by then, so it wasn't that I wanted to check out video on my PSP, but rather the curiosity that was UMD Video. That was how I discovered that their video resolution was a full-SD 480 lines, even though the PSP itself only had a 272-line display; this was before the PSP had AV-out cables, too, and there were obviously no UMD-format devices ever released besides the PSP. At any rate, if you have AV-out cables for your PSP, UMD Video is the same visual quality on your TV as a DVD without upscaling. UMD Video overall was a failure, but in the realm of anime releases, it looks like Samurai Champloo may have been an unusually good seller. For most anime TV series released on UMD, there was only ever a single volume put out. Samurai Champloo had a volume released every 2 months, ending at Vol. 4. Of course, the way Geneon did their UMDs, this only meant 8 episodes total, in comparison to the 4-5 episodes per UMD that Bandai did in their brief venture into the format (in which they never released more than one volume of any series). A nice touch, I thought, with my Trigun volume--and I don't know how common this was in UMD Video releases, though it was fairly uncommon in UMD games--it takes advantage of the clear UMD case by having an illustration on the reverse side of the cover insert. Incidentally, Metal Jesus, the scrolling screen of Japanese UMDs that you have at the end, when talking about anime releases, almost all of what you're showing are actually visual novel games, not UMD Video. You can tell because they have a CERO (Japan's equivalent of ESRB or PEGI) ratings symbol in the corner of the cover. Also, it's worth noting when discussing other-region UMD Video that, unlike UMD games, there's region coding there, using the same regions as DVD. A certain region (guess which) allowed pornographic UMD Video content, but it won't play on a North American PSP. onmode-ky Edited January 14, 2014 by onmode-ky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariFriend Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 I was at the local antique mall the other day and saw On Her Majesty's Secret Service on CED for sale. Came on two CEDs. It was a bizarre find. Wow and CED's where double sided too so thats 4 inserts for 1 movie! Back when I used to collect CED's I swear every yard sale lot I got they all had Saturday Night Fever. I kid you not I must have had close to 10 copies of SNF at one point. I guess if you where into CED you where into Disco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Darrin9999 Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 What was the last CED Released? Jewel of the Nile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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