MoDoJo has a nice write up about the Sony UMD format and its imminent death.

So now we’re reading reports, a year later, that indicate that the UMD format is dying, if it isn’t already dead. It was a huge gamble on Sony’s part, one that required a great deal of thinking and marketing that eventually blew up in their face. So, what went wrong?

They cover all the points about the UMD format as you would expect, including the fact that no one wants to purchase films in a format that can only be played on one device, and the fact that some of the choices for release were poor to say the least.

Its well worth having a read of the article, and also a browse through some of the comments on Digg.