I sadly never owned a PSP back in the day, but I’ll forever take pride in the fact I own a UMD Video copy of Godzilla: Final Wars

I had a friend who owned a PSP and one time he asked for the PSP port of the PS2 Ghost Rider game for his birthday... or, rather, he asked for "Ghost Rider on PSP," but his parents ended up giving him the UMD release of the movie by accident.

I genuinely only thought there was like 8 UMD movies total because I've only ever seen the same ones everywhere--finding out they have things like "Akira" and "Paprika" is neat.

I got Spiderman 2 UMD when i registered my PSP. The video quality back in 2005 was fucking mind blowing!

To think they released The Hangover Part ll on UMD in 2011 is both hilarious and admirable

We love you

Perfect Blue, Akira, and Paprika on UMD is such a crazy concept.

I really enjoy collecting UMD movies. There’s something pleasing about having a physical movie in such a small format.

I loved these UMDs! I used to watch Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies on my old Darth Vader PSP all of the time

Leave it to Junko to make me care about even more obscure movie releases. In all seriousness though, I always love tuning into this channel to hear about these.

Consider that, in 2004, PSP memory sticks were not bigger than 32MB or 64MB. A format like the UMD was needed to kickstart the console. I love the PSP as I see it as the first rays of sunshine of the mobile revolution we've seen with the iPhone and beyond.

Sony was planning to make a stand-alone UMD player so the PSP wouldn’t be the only platform that could use the disks and the patented a v2 design with a more robust case and higher capacitor but that never happened. The tech was moving so fast. It was less than a year later that Sony introduced the PS3 which popularised BluRay.

Honestly, I feel like the Harry Potter UMDs could be worth good money some day.

When the world needed him most, he returned!

Surprisingly the UMD version of Monty Python & the Holy Grail is a slightly different cut from the VHS version that was found in Blockbusters and such.

I absolutely loved buying movies for my PSP, and i watched all of mine on so many road trips. Watching spiderman, Talladega nights, and the day after tomorrow will always be treasured memories for me.

The PSP, and it's games and movies were a lifesaver for me in the Navy in 2004-2010. So handy to have on the ship.

That damn AMC intro had me rolling

I'm fully convinced that Junko is the first person to actually watch The Whale, and he did it on a PSP

I just wanna say that I'm so glad that there's someone else who appreciates the PSP as much as I do. It's been my favorite for years, and I felt like an insane person for liking it this much. You make me feel a little less craz- well... a little less alone.

In Canada at least, UMD movies were expensive up until the PSP was discontinued. Usually they were MORE expensive than PSP games! As a result of course they never seemed to get off the shelves, lol. It's wild to hear they were in bargain bins over there, definitely not where I grew up.

Missed ya, Junko. Hope everything is going alright on your end. Your PSP videos are some of the best about the format, since it's one of the few systems that I learned the least about over my years of game collecting. A video about the rarest games/umds for it would be cool.

That Harry Potter UMD boxset could very well be the first and only UMD boxset.

Always a good day when my boy Junko uploads. Especially when it's PSP related.

I didn't grow up with a PSP, but the one I got last year is primarily used for watching movies. It's like listening to old music on an 8-track (side note: yes, I am that kind of a hipster): sure, it's not the best way to experience that piece of media, but it helps you get into the mindset of that era. Watching Family Guy on a PSP feels way more natural than watching it on Hulu.

One thing I really liked about the UMD movies as someone who bought *SO MANY* used UMDs is that the movies *NEVER* froze no matter how gnarly they were. Idk how Sony managed that one, but I got so many cheap movies in terrible condition that I could watch the entire way through with no issue. Also, while not ideal, you could plug your PSP into a TV using component video cables and actually watch the UMDs like they were DVDs.

Something about watching Perfect Blue on the PSP makes me want a PSP so I can watch one of the best psychological thrillers of all time when I’m at the airport.

I loved UMD back in the day. When I was in college and rode the bus to work, I’d watch Dave Chappelle’s ‘For What It’s Worth’ and episodes of Family Guy and Ali G over and over again.

This video brought back so many memories, my psp was my entire entertainment system as a teen.

I think I spent more time on my PSP watching the Beavis and Butthead collection, Ren & Stimpy and the SpongeBob movie more than I did playing the games I had

This video made me go looking for my old PSP, come to find out, I've got every UMD release of the Jackass TV show and every UMD release of Family Guy 😂

The mirror bit sold me on this entire channel, I don't care what any of your other videos are, you're not getting rid of me, I'm in your walls playing Soul Sacrifice.

I had a couple of UMD movies but only really watched Robots, Guess Who and Bewitched on there, which is probably the weirdest trio of films to have watched on the system.

This is initially what sold me on the PSP. At the time this was by far the best way to watch movies and TV on the go

Honestly I want the Harry Potter one. With pretty much every movie now freely available with just a few yohoho's, I like to have collections like these on the most obscure format possible.

UMD wow! That takes me back. I had Batman 1989, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Punisher (2004), The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, and Sin City.

The god of war psp bundle with Superbad 🔥🔥😭😭 so legendary

i remember showing my classmates in secondary school 28 days later with my psp its was my first & last psp movie :)

HELL YEAH, YOURE BACK! I've missed ya man.

I hear that Exit music at 2:07, you legend! That was my first game on the PSP and it's nice to hear I'm not the only one who remembers it!

I had to pause this video to look up Thumb Wars. 10/10 great parody, thanks for showing it off Junko

2:45 If I remember correctly, back in the day in Japan, Sony and several JAV studios had a “backdoor” agreement in distributing the studio’s “content” in UMD form. Sony really wanted the PSP to be the definition of “One handed gaming” there. Surprisingly, you can still find (and buy) these UMDs on some Japanese auction sites. Also, some of those UMDs actually made its way to the UK.

First of all, Junko I’m glad you’re back! This video was awesome, brought back a lot of awesome memories. I remember having a couple of UMD movies on my PSP back in the day but the one I loved so much was my copy of The Warriors Directors Cut. I love that movie and the video game adaptation that Rockstar did which I also had that game on PSP.

Shout outs to both the game store nearby that had a UMD of Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo on their shelves for at least a year recently, unable to be sold, or the time I went to Target a couple of years ago and found a new UMD of Hollow Man.

For 3 & a half months I lived in a house where my bedroom was literally a tent in the backyard. I'd get home from work at midnight and I didn't want to wake everyone up by turning the TV on in the living room. So I I'd go to my tent and watch UMD movies on my PSP. I had 2 jobs at the time and one of those was at Target. Since I got paid every Friday, I would buy a few UMD's every week. Even if it was a movie or show I wouldn't normally watch I would still get it to that I can have something to watch when I got home. I built up quite the collection but ended up selling all of it GameStop and randos on Craigslist. Being able to watch shows on my PSP with my earbuds in made me forget that I was sleeping in a tent every night, at least for a few hours.

This is an excellent video! This actually reinforces a personal epiphany I've been having recently. I swear that there's something just inherently intimate and carefree with dedicated handheld entertainment devices with actual buttons instead of the caution-demanding touchscreen on our phones. The same applies to UMDs, I mean loading up your PSP with a physical disc back and forth really sells your intent as a consumer with what you want there and then entertainment wise. (Really who can forget that *click* and *clack* sounds of ejecting and inserting UMDs?) I understand people are giving Sony flack for the upcoming PlayStation Portal, but with it being a modern handheld entertainment-specific device without it's overreliance on a touchscreen, it's simple conveniences like that that feels inherently personal as an avid video-gamer. I mean cons are there for sure for the Portal, but if the desire to press buttons on a screen inches from one's face is there, I can't help the want to revisit that intimacy. I already pre-ordered the PSP (PlayStation Portal). Don't underestimate simple luxuries, everyone. Simple things can be that powerful.

David Lynch said watching a movie on your phone is dumb, but he secretly loves it on a PSP

Always a delight to see new videos from you! What a wild '00s time capsule it is to see some of those movie choices. It's interesting that we got two Pixar releases but not a single animated Disney film.

I loved my PSP and I loved the UMD movies. It was better than carrying a gigantic ass portable DVD player

It's been so long, but I'm always glad to catch a new Junko video. Love your work!

PSP had the Trigun series on UMD. I loved the selection

The Vice City UMD was a good chunk of my PSP playtime, I loved how convenient it was to carry around that format

Certified hood classic, your videos never fail to impress keep fighting the good fight

You know what movie UMD needed? Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead

I’m glad this video showed up in my feed because I’ve been on a goal collecting all the umd movies because getting my first psp I watched so many movies on it

I remember watching Thumb Wars like 4 times back to back with a friend and just being in tears the whole time

The PSP still holds up to this day, glad I still have mine in working order with a stack of games. It delivered excellent escapism from boredom on long trips while the games served as perfect companions to their main stories on the PS3 and elsewhere. Me and my friends of the time would play ad hoc or just take turns passing it around trying to complete levels.

Holy shit, didn’t everyone get Lords of Dogtown with their PSP’s? Also, the magic of musicals volume 6 had me rolling…subscribed.

Movies on the PSP was WILD back in the day. I had a CRT TV that I used for my original Xbox and Xbox 360, and didn't upgrade to a modern day flatscreen till around 2009. So the PSP's widescreen format and high resolution at the time blew my mind because things just looked so much better on it than it did on anything else I was playing on at the time.

I still remember sitting on a bus in 2008, or so, when I was 9 or 10 and behind me was a guy watching a movie on his PSP and my mind was blown. Watching a movie, on a handheld device? unthinkable, nay, impossible, you just can't fit whole TV into your pants.

It was about a year ago when I first got to experience the UMD format, it brought me back to the good old days of bringing my portable DVD player on road trips The PSP formfactor just feels so nice to hold and watch a movie or show on, and the fact that Napolean Dynamite is on the just sells it for me Also yay the PSP trashcan is back!

My biggest memory of umd watchings were with Viva La Bam season. The sink in front of my toilet had handles on the cabinet that perfectly fit a PSP. So I watched a lot while taking a dump. Thank you for your time.

I had Ghost Rider, Talladega Nights, Wildboys Season 1, Click, Dodgeball, Bewitched and The Matrix. Sooo many memories of watching those on my Darth Vader PSP.

If anything, I love the novelties that come with formats like UMD. I would really love for Sony to bring back the ideas of the PSP with a new standalone handheld in this era, with its own library of exclusive(if also ported to PC and console) games. I love the novelties of consoles like the 3DS and the DS, the beautiful designs of stuff like the PSP and Vita, and just the overall air of just plain fun. Playing Elden Ring or RDR2 on the go is fun and all, but the gimmicks of the 3DS, DS, and other handhelds are just as cool. Also, the 3DS circle pad is one of the best joysticks ever, fight me.

honestly the selection of movies is pretty good. a lot of timeless classics i return to every year

Your videos are always great Junko glad you’re back 🫶

I'll always love the PSP for its ambition, and UMDs are a good case for it.

i appreciate the time and setup it took to film the toilet mirror bit

Dude I thought some other KZfaqr did a video essay on the umd but u sir took it to another level

Paprika, of all movies, being on a UMD is so insane. i kind of of want to buy one even though I don't own a PSP. Paprika is one of my favorite movies all of time

Hey, Junkos back. I was just finishing your Razzie Collab video and it left me craving some early aughts nostalgia. Perfect timing!

I was so stoked when I got click and team America for Christmas. Watched them so many times in room.

My psp came with spider man 2 way back in 2004. I couldn't believe it played movies. It was so surreal

I used to have a few films for the psp that i used to watch when i went to work with my dad, I used to sit and watch Austin powers goldmember on repeat ❤

It’s cool to see someone else talk about UMD movies. I’ve been collecting them pretty hard these last couple of years. I have The Departed shipping from Japan as we speak.

I had a UMD of Dumb & Dumber as a kid and it was the greatest thing ever👏

I borrowed my cousins for a month and was so hooked I had to get my own. My parents ended up getting me the renegade squadron version, and this was great growing up with siblings having to share a television

I had a decent handful of UMD movies, these rocked

From a technology standpoint, I've always found it interesting that they used Blu-ray compression to fit DVD quality films on a disc that could hold less than half of the data of a DVD. I bought a PSP on the day of release and I was excited about the idea of UMD movies but I didn't start purchasing them until a couple years in, because the early releases cost the same as a DVD but did not have any extra features. I didn't start buying them until they started coming with more than just the film.

Yay, you're back!!! Missed ya, Junko!

I got myself a 3000 since your last upload. Loving it so far, even more than the Vita surprisingly

underated channel, think you're going to go places

Time to scroll all the comments and see peoples' lists of UMDs they bought and/or ended up with because they didn't know what to do with them! Hahaha I think I have three of them in a box somewhere that I picked up for $0.25 a piece once... but I never had many. I remember thinking it was a neat option when I got the PSP, but I ended up spending a lot more time trying to figure out how to set up video files in the right size/formats to put them directly on the PSP so I could watch without the spin sound of the drive. Always fun to explore these old trial-and-error tech things like that though! And PSP stuff in general, as always. Fun video again! Positive Vibes, and Yaddle Approves or something

Thank you so much for creating this content for us

I loved UMD back in 2005. I had “SWAT,” “Guess Who” and that Dave Chapelle special. It was an exciting time. I watched “Guess Who” every week at work.

I had the Fantastic Four. I remember everyone wanting to sit next to me on the bus

I remember getting Stealth UMD for Christmas 05 simply because it came with the Wipeout Pure demo. PSP was an amazing system.

Oh sweet I'm glad I got a notification of this upload, I binge watched your channel when I was in the hospital with ulcerative colitis and kind of forgot about your channel

I remember my cousins owned a psp back in the day and I wanted it sooo bad, it looked and felt cool to have. After begging my parents for months, they finally gave one to me, with the rule that I share with my siblings (I never did). I have many memories with it and I'm surprised it works to this day. I love my psp.

The Junkman is back! Love to see more PSP content

I had a PSP back in the day and few UMD, I was a kid and didn't always had access to the TV. loves to watch them on my psp

One of my friends gave me a couple of UMD's in high school, I watched Bad Boys on the bus ride to my after school job program and then on the ride home(and watched a bit at the VA hospital where I worked since they were having a party that day and I didn't have to do my usual work duties).

I loved UMD movies and miss them! I have a little collection. Makes sense why no one really wanted them.

My 1st(of mannnnyyy) PSP came with National Treasure. I was blown away by the quality. My 1st experience watching FF VII Advent Children was on the PSP. It was such a fun way to watch movies on trips when i didnt really feel like gaming.

I always felt bad about missing the PSP (I mean, not that I really had a choice as a broke 10 year old nintendo fanboy). When this thing came out most of us were still using GBAs, and even those who were early DS adopters had to be envious of it in many regards. The graphics and features were so impressive for the time; I remember watching a friend play on the school bus something as mundane as MLB '05 or whatever and just being blown away, then when people were watching movies during down time/indoor recess it felt like this thing was from the future lmao. Smartphones really killed a lot of the excitement of "portable innovation" we saw during the 90's and 2000's, I'm glad I was at least around to appreciate it at the time.

0:47 - Guitar riffs started going off in my head, for a second it smelled like the early 2000s.

Thank you for PSP content!

Owning the UMD of Spider-man 2 and National Treasure 2 as a child definitely formed me as a person.

One of the best channels on KZfaq nowadays!

Ive probably seen the first pirates of the Caribbean over 30 times because that was the only umd movie I owned as a kid and would always just rewatch it