UMD movies might be dead but you're still gonna get cinema on your PSP.

In what can only be yet another shining example of a going nowhere proprietary format dreamed up by Sony (what were we gonna do with those little disks anyway?)
Sony is now in talks with movie studios so that we PSP owners and download movies directly to our PSPs (take that iTunes store!!).

Articles have been floating around the web that Sony is chatting with Amazon.com, MovieLink and CinemaNow to investigate the feasability of distributing movies to PSP owners through direct downloads. Let me get this straight...Sony is gonna do something that makes sense for their consumer? This MUST be one result of the shake up in leadership at the MegaCorp! Sony's even looking at launching this service early next year.

Seems that in order to get movies to our PSP we'll first have to download them to our computer and then to a memory stick. Which sounds great but leave it up to the big guys to find a way to put the media in some proprietary format or have some restrictions that limits play.

Is this yet another "shot across the bow" that Sony wants to get into the Xbox live business? With the luke warm reception of the PS3 and Microsoft's chokehold on the downloadable game/media marketplace (let's not forget that Microsoft has deals with Paramount Pictures, CBS, MTV and Warner Bros and are already offering content) it may be less of a warning shot and more of a death knell.