So the PS3 isn't coming out until next XMas season, which means I'll be sitting in a corner hugging the box wondering if I should sell it on EBay the first day I have if the price goes high enough. On top of that, all HD-DVD players have had their release delayed by about a month. Are there that many problems with the new formats? I'm usually very weary about buying first gen tech products anyway because of bugs and glitches, but with all these hold ups, I'm hoping that these new systems will work flawlessly on release. Next, Walmart ain't gonna sell UMD movies no more. Major studios are starting to drop the format. Is it the end of using UMD's for movies? Yeah, it is. I own 2 UMD's that have video on them, HellBoy and the free sampler. The only reason I have HellBoy was a buy 1 get one half price sale at deepdiscountdvd's, whom I will never buy from again (but that is a different story). I bought 4 UMD's and sold 3 on EBay to pay for HellBoy. Before I even owned HellBoy, I owned a 1 GB memory card and PSP movie conversion software. So when I decided I wanted KungFu Hustle, I bought the DVD and converted it. Can the UMD movie format be saved? I think it can, but they are going to need to make the movies cheaper. A lot cheaper. Like half the cost of a DVD. I remember the first movie I bought. Eddie Murpy RAW on VHS. My mom wasn't too happy with me, but at the video store this used movie was on sale for $25, marked down from $75! Only the rich had personal video collections back then. The rest of us rented. DVD's started off in the $20 to $30 range where VHS left off for new release movies and delivered much, much, much better quality video and sound. When the DVD Players started droping to $25 on sale, Blockbuster should have yanked all the VHS tapes off the shelves. Honestly, why are they still there? Anyhow, the PSP is not going to replace the portable DVD player I own. It's just going to allow me to watch movies when I want to take a break from a game. If there were home UMD players with a HDMI connector and a UMD-RW drive for my computer , both reasonably priced, that would also help the format out. On it's current track, I expect to find cheap UMD movies flooding EBay in the near future. Oh, yeah. They are already there. Finally, I work in a school. A girl needed an MP3 on her flash drive for some class performance, but it wouldn't play. I went to use WMP to play it, but the DRM from walmart.com prevented it. Nothing I tried could play or convert the MP3. Not that I tried to hard. If I had an analog solution at work, I could have converted it to CD, but since I usually don't deal with music files excpet to keep them off the network, I didn't. I believe in DRM, but there has to be someway to transfer songs to another computer. I have 5 at my house in different rooms and I stream my MP3 collection. Would buying a song online prevent me from doing this? I'm guessing WMP would let me burn and rip the song into a non-DRM format. Honestly, the last CD I bought was the latest Saw Doctors CD and before that was the previous Saw Doctors CD. I have a 6 CD changer in the car that I don't use and XM Radio. DRM doesn't effect me right now and I do believe in it, but my first experience with it made it feel a little too restrictive.