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Using Recode to Convert a Movie for your PSP

MyNeroUserWithNickname@nero.com () — 17 Feb 2008 00:33:28 GMT

Nero Recode will convert and transfer your movies to your psp - it's very easy - just a few clicks.

Take a peek at the guide. (you might need to turn the volume up - oops:) )

Hi im Trish

MyNeroUserWithNickname@nero.com () — 23 Nov 2007 01:47:30 GMT

hi there ,im trish and here to chat ,meet friends ,and share music and movies ,programs or whatever you might like ,come see me on my page .

hugs ,trish

UMD Disk Specification

MyNeroUserWithNickname@nero.com () — 05 Nov 2007 03:38:03 GMT

Here's a surprise.

While looking for the CD-ROM specifications from ECMA, I chanced upon this document:

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-365.htm

Title: Data Interchange on 60mm Read-Only ODC - Capacity: 1,8 GBytes (UMD(tm)).

In English, this means it's the mechanical, physical and optical specifications for Sony's UMD format, as supported exclusively on the Sony PSP. Undefined is the logical format for multimedia content (codecs, menuing, DRM etc.)

So this brings the UMD on-par with the DVD and CD formats, which are defined in ECMA-267 and ECMA-130 respectively. However, the logical formats for both of these media, while widely reverse engineered, remain proprietary documents which require substantial license payments to access.

So we can still call the UMD unwise, unnecessary, and a sad example of Sony Corporation's fetishistic need to control the distribution format. But we can no longer call it proprietary.