PSP Tickles Studios' Fancy

I'm trying not to get overly excited about Disney's announcement that it will be selling movies formatted for the Sony PSP, because we've lived through this before. Back in the last 90s, when the MP3 format was quickly taking the digerati by storm, there would be flurries of announcements discussing the impending deals with record labels that would flood the market with digital music.

Of course, almost none of that panned out. Record companies, right or wrong, were concerned that they would undercut their own CD market with digital goods.

This, however, could be different simply because the DVD market is already saturated with films -- so putting out specifically optimized disks (albeit with digital works) is really just an extension of an already existing business model. The PSP will ship with a copy of Spider-Man 2. (Ed note: How freakin' cool is that?)

Not surprisingly, as the Cnet article points out, music (or a lack thereof) continues to be a sticking point for the device.