Key facts
- Media type
- Optical disc
- Capacity
- 900 MB (single layer), 1.8 GB (dual layer)
- Read mechanism
- 660 nm laser diode
- Developed by
- Sony
- Usage
- Games , movies , music
- Released
- December 12, 2004 ; 21 years ago ( 2004-12-12 )
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Wikidata facts
- Developer
- Sony Group
- Image
- Universal Media Disc, an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable.jpg
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- different from
- MiniDVD
- Commons category
- Universal Media Disc
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Encyclopedic overview
UMD disc front
The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is a discontinued optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming and multimedia platform. It can hold up to 1.8 gigabytes of data and is capable of storing video games, feature-length films, and music.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Universal Media Disc” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.