Bandai to Ship UMD and DVD Discs Together

Anime publisher Bandai has announced that they will be shipping UMD and DVD discs together for some of their releases, and GamesIndustry.biz has the tale. From the article: "Brand new anime series Eureka 7, which has been created by the team behind the hugely successful RahXephon, will be the first to get the treatment - with a single box housing both UMD and DVD, for slightly more than the price of buying both separately." UMD stands for Universal Media Disc, and is the proprietary format that Sony uses for the PSP.

So...

[Anonymous Coward]

A "Universal Media Disc" is proprietary?
Boy, I hate marketing people.

Universal?

[yotto]

Am I the only one who finds it odd that the proprietary format for the PSP is called "universal"?

Don't you just love that.

[Captain Rotundo]

ITs always the proprietary, closed formats that get names with words like "universal" in them. Universal to what? The disc that is universally used in psps? how retared is that?

Makes sense

[Mike Hawk]

You can use it anywhere in the Universe that you bring your PSP. Universal.

Re:Universally universal

[Minna Kirai]

No. They have underwater bases in both hemispheres.

Doesn't matter. If you look carefully at the region-code map, you'll see it only covers the land-masses. The Atlantic and Pacific oceans are technically not inside any region.

In fact, it is even illegal for humans. To watch any DVD in a ship on the high sea is an act of terrorism, and Sony is authorized to launch cruise missiles at anyone attempting this.