PSP Gets Smaller, Video Out, Still sucks
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To bad it still uses a proprietary format an has to compete with DVD players, DVRs AppleTV, MythTV...and...well....TV.
if it wasnt for those things (plus the lack of good games), the PSP might not suck as much.
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Couple of things you forgot to mention:
1) Chewbacca endorses this model.
2) First handheld that natively supports video out.
3) Chewbacca endorses this model.
4) With native video out this allows the PSP to display UMDs on TELEVISIONS. Since Sony has still not released a UMD player, because they are dipshits, this may be what the format needs to be useful.
Now, if only they had included that back at the original release...
The PSP still sucks. And my PSP still sucks hard. But this new PSP with video out? Makes the PSP suck a whole lot less. Especially if the video out works for UMD, videos stored on the PSP, MP3s stored on the PSP, and web browing on the PSP.
Video out is a sensible inclusion that ought to have been there for the original model.
"To bad it still uses a proprietary format an has to compete with DVD players, DVRs AppleTV, MythTV...and...well....TV."
The PSP isn't competing with those things in the same way that an iPhone doesn't compete with the iPod. They're functionally different devices. The PSP isn't an alternative to a DVD player. It's a shitty gaming system that supports a shitty proprietary video format.
It's a fundamentally flawed device that Sony keeps throwing features on top of in hopes of increasing the value of the unit as a whole.
Video out is a good addition. Making it slimmer and lighter is a good addition. But these don't solve the fundamental problems of the unit:
1) You can't keep it in your pocket.
2) There are only two or three fun games out for it.
3) The "Web browsing" doesn't really work since it uses internal storage, which means you can go to maybe 3 sites and then the memory is full.
4) The MP3 playback doesn't really work.
5) The video playback doesn't really work.
6) UMD doesn't really work.
If it did all the things it does well, had a protective device over the screen, and wasn't so fucking shiny? It would be awesome. But so long as they keep the basic design the PSP is always, ALWAYS going to suck.
I don't think you can technically say that a proprietary format as a whole is a bad thing. Basically every form of media you enjoy that isn't used on a pc/ipod is a proprietary format. DVDs, CDs, Cassettes, Bluray, HD-DVD, even LPs are all proprietary... does that make them bad? I think not.
iTunes uses a proprietary music format. People seem to not have a problem with that.
acc is not a proprietary format. acc can play in any media player that can support MP3 or .mov files. i can also burned onto a CD or DVD or converted into mp3 lossess and wave.
iTMS files are locked down with the wimpiest DRM around.
i don't think you can do any of those times with UMD
A UMD isn't a file... it's a disc. Much like your CD and DVD which are both proprietary to boot.
also, althought AAC itself is not proprietary, it does use patent license, which means it relies on proprietary technologies.
What kyle said.
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