Talk:Universal Media Disc

message: The article states that the maximum capacity of the UMD is 1.8 Gigabytes, however, there are UMD games that take up more than 1,800,000,000 bytes. For instance, Splinter Cell: Essentials is a little over 1.81GB. So is it possible that a dual layer UMD's capacity is actually 1.8 gibibytes? Or is the capacity something else?--Subversive Sound (talk) 18:07, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 1.8 GB is not precisely 1,800,000,000 bytes, it is 1,932,735,283 byes. Just as 1 KB is not 1000 bytes, it is 1024 bytes. --OuroborosCobra (talk) 01:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Subversive Sound is aware of this difference, which is why he linked to the relevant articles in his post. As explained in the Gigabytes article, there is a disparity between the SI meaning of GB (1,000,000,000 bytes) and the actual computer usage (1,073,741,824 bytes), which is why some people propose the Gibibyte distinction.131.107.204.126 (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Capacity

message: The statement (about the BBC UMDs) "Curiously these are labeled as Region 0 NTSC although the programmes were originally made in PAL." which I removed from the article seems to imply something inaccurate. The TV format of the original programing is not relevant to what format a video program is stored on DVD, VCD, etc. PAL can be converted to NTSC thus it would not be that curious. I have yet to locate a clear information as to whether a PSP unit will only play UMDs in the tv format being used in the country it was sold in. If someone can clarify this I think this info should be added to the article. --Cab88 13:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally, a programme source is referred to as "PAL" if it runs at 25fps, and "NTSC" if it runs at 30. While this might be strictly incorrect when referring to digital sources, the concept (and the resulting TV picture quality) is well-known and a valid use of the terms. The removed sentence makes perfect sense to me - the programmes were originated in (or for) a 625/50 video format, but the UMB recording comes out as 525/60 (this corresponds with the 720x480 resolution). So it would appear that UMD is an NTSC-only format. G7mzh (talk) 20:00, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: PSPs and TV broadcast formats

message: "However, there has been recent profit from licensing fees."
What did they license? Are other companies making blank media? --Gbleem 07:22, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's in the sense of "LICENSED BY NINTENDO". As with other video game consoles and handhelds that use the lockout chip business model, "licenses" cover the right to use Sony patents and Sony trade secrets to author a given title for the PSP and to use Sony manufacturing facilities to press said title in UMDs. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 20:49, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: licensing and blank disks

message: What does this mean? Can someone update the entry with this information? --Da-rb 27 January 2006
Its the PSP version of a .EXE file, essentially its the executable file - it stands for Psp Relocatable Executable. Paulie 16:18, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: PRX

message: Can someone cite a source for the comment (in the section about UMD movies) that the format is a bomb "...just like Blue-Ray"? I question this comment because 1. The format's name is spelled BLU-RAY and I doubt a publication would reprint the quote without checking spelling and 2. The BLU-RAY format hasn't gone on sale yet, so it's obnoxious to refer to the format as being a "bomb". Maybe the quotee meant Betamax? There's also almost no commentary on the quality of UMD movies or their quality Vs. DVD, maybe someone can add some info?
Just to point something out, it's not BLU-RAY either, it's Blu-ray. TJ Spyke 21:47, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  UMD movie comments 

message: it says that it is impossible to play back on a normal television. this will change because of the new video output feature of the redesigned PSP. on a side note, anybody know where to get little britain on UMD in canada? 64.26.148.3 01:41, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite due to new PSP

message: How can it not be seen that the UMD is a descendant of the MiniDisc, and that it is just essentially just a dvd version of the CD MiniDisc. Sure it doesn't have the sliding guard, but it is the 2.0 version if anything of the MiniDisc's case. The MiniDisc had flimsy plastic protection just like UMD's and the Discs both held side to side look and measure the same (almost like holding up a regular cd up against a regular dvd).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.116.112 (talk) 22:07, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Being a minidisc reader owner and having quite some of them i have to agree ! We might need a citation though.. T-oliveira (talk) 01:50, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: UMD aka MiniDisc 2.0

message: All the edit links show up in the wrong place on Firefox in Windows XP not sure how to fix this..  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.246.233 (talk) 16:25, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a consequence of how the float attribute in CSS works. There's no good way to fix it. Λύκος 19:46, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is still a problem, and I haven't seen it on any other article. I don't have the expertise to know how to fix it... Any ideas? --Woodgreener (talk) 17:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: HTML problems?

message: I've been searching the internet looking for proof that it's true that BattleZone is really region locked, but I can't find any. Does anyone have proof or know by first-hand experience? It seems really strange that only 1 PSP game on the planet is region locked. --- Akadewboy (talk) 00:42, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't find anything either on previous searches that i made about this game.. sounds like baloney to me. T-oliveira (talk) 01:51, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any proof that BattleZone is really region locked? 

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