I don't see how the PSP is viable portable movie solution unless you acutally buy UMD's. I mean say you buy a 2GB stick...what does that fit? Maybe 2 movies? And you know continually swapping movies would get old real quick. At least with a hard drive based player you can get like 50+ movies on it (depending on size of course).
Nonsense, I own a PS1, PS2 and about 60 games for the former, around 30 for the latter. I have no hate of Sony per se whatsoever. PSP, however, is *not* a fabulous device. Sleek and sexy as hell, no question about it, but I can't abide the enormous number of Sony proprietary technologies built in. They force you to buy their proprietary movies, proprietary memory sticks, and if you really want to take advantage of the media features you have to *buy* their software at $20 download/$30 retail (yes, I know freeware exists, but it's 3rd party).
If they wanted PSP to be really well designed it would have used mini-DVD's instead (same 1.8-ish GB capacity without the silly clamshell and exorbitant price), and that way we could easily have burned our own media to use with the device. Now *that* would have been a cool design. Also, they could easily have utilized SD, Mini-SD or--god forbid--compact flash (though I could understand design reasons not to use CF due to the form factor being so large) for storage, really opening up the playing field for end users and turning this thing into a *true* multimedia device. As it stands, it's a decently powered game system with a lamentable lack of decent games (sorry, but DS's game selection is vastly superior to PSP's) that also enjoys masquerading as a multimedia device, in which capacity it's *extremely* limited.
Jason
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I do PSP and convert my movies. I have a system in place (all free of course) that will do my movies in under 500mb in near dvd quality. Most are actually around 350mb for a 1 1/2 hour flick.
Converting them takes a bit but it shure beats buying the movie twice, one on dvd and one on UMD. Buy the one, convert, burn it and alot more to one dvd disk and when you want to watch it takes a whole 3 minutes to download to the psp.
This way you can watch near dvd quality movies, old console games, music, pictures, and psp games all with the one system. And there is supposed to be out and may even be out a program where you can watch Divx movies on the PSP saving all kinds o f space.
As far as mem goes a 1 gig stick works fine and at times after rebat can be had for under $40 so you get a few. One for movies and one for everything else and your all set.
As for battery goes. Mine lasts around 2-3 hours and there is an adapter that can increase this.
ALSO there is supposed to be a 3 gig HDD set up for the PSP as well if storage is a big deal and it comes with a battery that will make it last longer as well I believe I saw for $199 if I can find that set up I will post that here.
I love my PSP
My bad its a 4 gig bigger battery set up.
Buy here for $199
Converting them takes a bit but it shure beats buying the movie twice, one on dvd and one on UMD. Buy the one, convert, burn it and alot more to one dvd disk and when you want to watch it takes a whole 3 minutes to download to the psp.
This way you can watch near dvd quality movies, old console games, music, pictures, and psp games all with the one system. And there is supposed to be out and may even be out a program where you can watch Divx movies on the PSP saving all kinds o f space.
As far as mem goes a 1 gig stick works fine and at times after rebat can be had for under $40 so you get a few. One for movies and one for everything else and your all set.
As for battery goes. Mine lasts around 2-3 hours and there is an adapter that can increase this.
ALSO there is supposed to be a 3 gig HDD set up for the PSP as well if storage is a big deal and it comes with a battery that will make it last longer as well I believe I saw for $199 if I can find that set up I will post that here.
I love my PSP
My bad its a 4 gig bigger battery set up.
Buy here for $199
For the record, these two are RIGHT: The Archos devices--and others similar--are far more well suited to someone looking for a portable media device than a PSP or even an iPod video would be.
Jason
Originally posted by: funboy42
I do PSP and convert my movies. I have a system in place (all free of course) that will do my movies in under 500mb in near dvd quality. Most are actually around 350mb for a 1 1/2 hour flick.
Converting them takes a bit but it shure beats buying the movie twice, one on dvd and one on UMD. Buy the one, convert, burn it and alot more to one dvd disk and when you want to watch it takes a whole 3 minutes to download to the psp.
This way you can watch near dvd quality movies, old console games, music, pictures, and psp games all with the one system. And there is supposed to be out and may even be out a program where you can watch Divx movies on the PSP saving all kinds o f space.
As far as mem goes a 1 gig stick works fine and at times after rebat can be had for under $40 so you get a few. One for movies and one for everything else and your all set.
As for battery goes. Mine lasts around 2-3 hours and there is an adapter that can increase this.
ALSO there is supposed to be a 3 gig HDD set up for the PSP as well if storage is a big deal and it comes with a battery that will make it last longer as well I believe I saw for $199 if I can find that set up I will post that here.
I love my PSP
My bad its a 4 gig bigger battery set up.
Buy here for $199
Excellent post, but you do miss some points.
1. The converted movies aren't DVD quality. DVD=720x480, PSP's screen=480x272, and with movies from the memory stick Sony locks you to 320x240, so you're dealing with less than *half* DVD quality. It's certainly a handy feature in a pinch, but the conversion takes forever, and as you point out, with movies between 350-500MB's, you're only going to get 2 of them on a 1gig stick. That's not a good deal at all.
2. The 4GB HDD addon is cool, but at $199 you're still looking at a cost of more than $450 with the PSP, the HDD addon and tax, and you still don't get the ability to play back Xvid, DivX or other formats. For the same price or less you can get a portable media center with 30-60GB, support for multiple formats and the ability to add new codec support.
The PSP's an OK game device, but it's really not a great multimedia device, especially for the average user.
Jason
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