The Sony PlayStation Portable is the only handheld gaming device that uses an optical disc for storage, called the universal media device. You can back up the game or movie on a UMD you purchased in ...

When Sony revealed the PSP Go this week, it confirmed rumors that the handheld console won’t use the unpopular UMD format. In fact, it looks like Sony really wants you to trade-up to a Go: It’ll ...

Update: North American PSP owners will not be treated to the same three free PSP Go games offer as Europe, a Sony America spokesman has told GamesIndustry.biz. "We were evaluating a UMD conversion ...

Last night I threw in the towel, unboxed my original PSP slim-3000-lite-whatever-it’s-called, and fired up the UMD version of Final Fantasy Tactics. The game’s not available through the PlayStation ...

A pamphlet explaining how PlayStation Vita owners can use their PSP UMD collection has been circulated at a Sony sales briefing in Japan. Andriasang heard the news from a shop representative present ...

Current PSP owners waiting to buy a PSP Go would feel a bit hard done-by since they won’t be able to play their current UMD games on it. Sony Computer Entertainment America have confirmed that there ...

A new report from market research firm The NPD Group concludes that the outlook for movies and other entertainment on Universal Media Disc (UMD) — the tiny optical disk used by Sony’s PlayStation ...