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Remember a couple of years back when the PSP came out and a (over) confident Sony proclaimed that UMD disks would revolutionise the way we watch movies on a games machine?

Well I’m sure they’d like to forget that. iPhone and iPod Touch moved in to tell people how it was going down, and it looked like the writing was on the wall.

The announcement of the PSP 3000’s digital download service must have got UMD manufacturers a little worried about their future, but according to Sony, they have nothing to fear.

Zeno Colaço, vice president of publisher and developer relations for Sony Europe, defended the UMD’s staying power when asked if UMD’s time is over:

“Absolutely not,” he said. “We’ve just released the PSP 3000 so we’re hardly going to be introducing a piece of hardware at the same time as we’re dropping support for UMD. It’s a case of recognising that consumers and content creators want the option of both digital distribution and UMD.”

Sony have a reputation for seeing things through, even if in this writers opinion – its fruitless. UMD is here to stay as far as they are concerned.

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