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Out Of Bubblegum Mar 19, 2022 @ 3:13pm
UMD disk in a CD player?
On another site, a person is asking if you can buy a CD player that plays UMD disks. He saw an Indian movie where an actor did that. I assume he means a music disk. The movie could have faked it and just pretended it played.


EDIT UODATE: Look at the screen cap in this thread. It does look like there is an indentation on the tray just for a UMD disk. But the disk does not look like it is sitting into the hole correctly.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=65872
Last edited by Out Of Bubblegum; Mar 20, 2022 @ 2:00pm
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_I_ Mar 19, 2022 @ 3:19pm 
no
umd is sonys own disc and drive
not even close to compatible with cd/dvd drives

the umd movie media is mp4 so if you could use a hacked psp to pull the files off the disc and save them to the sony memory stick, and play them on a pc, or burn them to a cd/dvd to play on a dvd player
Last edited by _I_; Mar 19, 2022 @ 3:35pm
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Jamebonds1 Mar 19, 2022 @ 6:25pm 
Do you mean to said Minidisc?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc
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PopinFRESH Mar 19, 2022 @ 7:01pm 
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Do you mean to said Minidisc?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

No they meant to say what they said. Universal Media Disc (UMD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc
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Jamebonds1 Mar 19, 2022 @ 11:28pm 
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Do you mean to said Minidisc?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDisc

No they meant to say what they said. Universal Media Disc (UMD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc
Check the fact. There is no UMD media player. Minidisc does.
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Out Of Bubblegum Mar 19, 2022 @ 11:37pm 
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
No they meant to say what they said. Universal Media Disc (UMD).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc
Check the fact. There is no UMD media player. Minidisc does.
That was the question. Did anyone ever make a player that can play a UMD disk. Other than the Play Station. So, yes, I did mean UMD.
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_I_ Mar 20, 2022 @ 12:39am 
mini cd/dvd is a small 2.5in cd or dvd
a standard cd/dvd player/drive can play/read them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_CD
Last edited by _I_; Mar 20, 2022 @ 12:42am
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PopinFRESH Mar 20, 2022 @ 5:47am 
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:

No they meant to say what they said. Universal Media Disc (UMD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Media_Disc
Check the fact. There is no UMD media player. Minidisc does.

Check the fact, the original Play Station Portable (PSP) used / plays UMDs. Regardless, just because it was a failed technology and Sony abandoned it with the move to the PSP Go doesn't mean UMD didn't exist. Movies do a bunch of stupid things with UMDs, MiniDisks, and mini CDs just because they aren't "standard" looking and people think they look super high-tech because people don't generally know what they are.
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_I_ Mar 20, 2022 @ 7:03am 
a friend had a bunch of credit card sized dvds made for his buisness (in the early 2000s)
i thought it was kinda neat, but who in their right mind would put a strangers disc in their pc
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Jamebonds1 Mar 20, 2022 @ 10:19am 
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Check the fact. There is no UMD media player. Minidisc does.

Check the fact, the original Play Station Portable (PSP) used / plays UMDs. Regardless, just because it was a failed technology and Sony abandoned it with the move to the PSP Go doesn't mean UMD didn't exist. Movies do a bunch of stupid things with UMDs, MiniDisks, and mini CDs just because they aren't "standard" looking and people think they look super high-tech because people don't generally know what they are.
There is no media player for UMD. Check the website.
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Masque Mar 20, 2022 @ 10:42am 
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
There is no media player for UMD. Check the website.

Not so universal, it turns out. :steammocking:
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Out Of Bubblegum Mar 20, 2022 @ 1:58pm 
Look at the screen cap in this thread. It does look like there is an indentation on the tray just for a UMD disk. But the disk does not look like it is sitting into the hole correctly.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=65872

I should have posted this before but I did not look too close to the screencap before now. Oops.
Last edited by Out Of Bubblegum; Mar 20, 2022 @ 2:01pm
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Jamebonds1 Mar 20, 2022 @ 6:32pm 
Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:
Look at the screen cap in this thread. It does look like there is an indentation on the tray just for a UMD disk. But the disk does not look like it is sitting into the hole correctly.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=65872

I should have posted this before but I did not look too close to the screencap before now. Oops.
As I said, there is no media player for the UMD. It is probably a modded disc drive to avoid trouble with copyright.
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PopinFRESH Mar 20, 2022 @ 7:43pm 
Originally posted by Jamebonds1:
Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:
Look at the screen cap in this thread. It does look like there is an indentation on the tray just for a UMD disk. But the disk does not look like it is sitting into the hole correctly.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=65872

I should have posted this before but I did not look too close to the screencap before now. Oops.
As I said, there is no media player for the UMD. It is probably a modded disc drive to avoid trouble with copyright.

Yes there is, its called a PSP. PSP, and UMD have been dead since 2014 so there isn't anything currently using it, just as there aren't HD-DVD players or Betamax players.

I'm not sure what "copyright" trouble you think there would be with a movie faking the use of a UMD, but it is far more likely this is just movies doing movie things and the UMD is just a prop.


Originally posted by Out Of Bubblegum:
Look at the screen cap in this thread. It does look like there is an indentation on the tray just for a UMD disk. But the disk does not look like it is sitting into the hole correctly.
https://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=65872

I should have posted this before but I did not look too close to the screencap before now. Oops.

It looks to me that the UMD is just sitting on the CD tray.
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_I_ Mar 20, 2022 @ 7:48pm 
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
It looks to me that the UMD is just sitting on the CD tray.

yep, the tray cant close with the umd in its cartridge
if you had a top loading cd player, you might be able to put a umd disc outside of its cartridge
but its spindle wont line up correctly
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PopinFRESH Mar 20, 2022 @ 8:21pm 
Originally posted by _I_:
Originally posted by PopinFRESH:
It looks to me that the UMD is just sitting on the CD tray.

yep, the tray cant close with the umd in its cartridge
if you had a top loading cd player, you might be able to put a umd disc outside of its cartridge
but its spindle wont line up correctly

IIRC the UMD center is the same dimensions as CD/DVD/BD so you could remove a UMD disc from the caddie and load it into a top loading CD/DVD player. Regardless it wouldn't matter if it fit, UMD used a different laser wavelength than CD or DVD. DVDs use a 650nm wavelength and UMDs use a 660nm wavelength.
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