Sony’s PSP is a cool product. I owned one for a few months, loved some of the games, but eventually parted with it do to the poor placement of the analog control pad, poor text entry capabilities (given the applications which use it), but most importantly, the lack of video output and adequate storage.

If you could play UMD movies on an external device, as well as store 10-20 GB of data on the device it would be an excellent entertainment device for traveling.

As it stands, why buy a UMD movie if you can only view it on the PSP?

It makes no sense at all. I don’t want to own 2 copies of my movies.

Which is probably why Sony is scaling back production of UMD movies.

Hopefully, Sony will either address the output issue or scrap movie playback and focus on improving the gaming aspect of the device.