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Article: More studios line up with films for Sony PSP.(demand of Sony PlayStation Portable)
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- Screen Digest
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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In addition to current backers Sony Pictures, Buena Vista and Lions Gate, the home entertainment arms of three other Hollywood majors look likely to offer their support for the PlayStation Portable (PSP) as a portable movie platform. Twentieth Century-Fox is reported to be in advanced negotiations to release feature film titles on the PSP's Universal Media Disc (UMD) format. Paramount and Universal are both said to be examining their own entry strategies.
Sony will be especially encouraged that Paramount and Universal are interested in supporting its proprietary portable video format, given that both companies are signed up to rival next-generation DVD technology ...