Sony to Release First Batch of Four UMD’s

Source: Yahoo

MGM, now partly owned by Sony, will release its first batch of four titles Sept. 13: Beauty Shop, Be Cool, Stargate: Atlantis and Bulletproof Monk.

Benjamin Feingold, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the first studio to supply movies on UMD, says it was always Sony’s intent that the PSP be more than a game player. Releasing movies for the PSP, he says, allows studios to “establish a beachhead in the portable, mobile market.”

Feingold says that as people spend more and more time with cell phones, personal digital assistants and other portable devices, “it’s important for our industry to have movies available.”

Source: Yahoo

MGM, now partly owned by Sony, will release its first batch of four titles Sept. 13: Beauty Shop, Be Cool, Stargate: Atlantis and Bulletproof Monk.

Benjamin Feingold, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, the first studio to supply movies on UMD, says it was always Sony’s intent that the PSP be more than a game player. Releasing movies for the PSP, he says, allows studios to “establish a beachhead in the portable, mobile market.”

Feingold says that as people spend more and more time with cell phones, personal digital assistants and other portable devices, “it’s important for our industry to have movies available.”