No Modification PSP TV Adapter 200
Craig writes "PSP Owners have long been interested in watching the UMD films and playing games on the TV, well now according to a report from Lik Sang they can, the new PSPTV being produced eventually by Gametech will be a no modification addon. From the article: 'The TV Adapter for PSP lets you hook up your PSP to your home television (NTSC and PAL) via Composite or S-Video and Stereo connectors. This adapter requires no modification of your PSP console. This new peripheral takes a completely different approach and clips on top of your PSP screen, with two screws to fit at the back of the handheld (in these two holes you can see on the top of the UMD drive). Some sort of pyramid grows from the base, with a precision lens and mirror system at the top, capturing the image and light, in a similar way a scanner or camera would. It then converts it into a video signal that is sent through video leads going from the adapter to your TV set.'"
anyone else (Score:5, Insightful)
Covert it from the out put via capture to digital back to analog, just a couple conversions too many imo.
Hahahah. (Score:4, Insightful)
UMD? More like D U M! Giggady giggady gig!
What's the point? Buy a PS2 (Score:5, Insightful)
I Don't See... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:anyone else (Score:5, Insightful)
Someone will buy it.
Re:Hahahah. (Score:1, Insightful)
Get a job, then you can buy shit. Nobody likes to read a poor man's critiques of products he wouldn't buy.
I am proud to have owned my favourite movies on LaserDiscs (no DRM!), DVDs (plays on my laptop!), and UMDs (plays on my handheld game consoles!). Go watch your XviD movies on your 6-year-old ThinkPad you bought off eBay for $200 and save the righteousness for priests.
Sincerely,
Seth Finklestein
White-Collar Worker
Re:anyone else (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, it will look like ass. And what the hell is the point of providing component and s-video support when the video is already trashed?
UMD (Score:2, Insightful)
Also, Lik-Sang does sell a modification kit with a pure s-video out and PS2 controller port if you look around in TFA.
LMFAO (Score:1, Insightful)
So if it's not a 'mod', but it voids your warranty, what is it? Oh yeah, a PIECE OF CRAP! Ok, I'm going to take 480 x 272 video and blow it up to wide screen using an A/D/A conversion device costing $120
I hate to say it, but this is one of those times where it REALLY is better to buy the effing DVD! And, I HATE the MPAA (and the RIAA, for that matter).
Re:Hahahah. (Score:3, Insightful)
Trading less than an hour's work for 4+ hours of entertainment is well within reason.
Besides, do you really think that most people watch most DVDs that they buy only 1 or 2 times?
PSone (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hahahah. (Score:3, Insightful)
Or it proves that some people find themselves spending time idling and they want something to occupy themselves. I've heard a few times that people who ride the bus a lot find the PSP to be a wonderful little device. Frankly, I'd probably be interested in one as well if I were still at my previous job. I travelled by plane a lot. Sometimes I'd spend up to a week at a time in a hotel. The idea of a pocket sized device with an interesting collection of movies would have been quite attractive to me. Every trip, I'd pick up a couple of UMDs and be off.
That said, I'm actually more attracted to the video iPod. 30/60 gigs of storage plus a video out. I could keep a reasonably large library of shows or movies to watch on it, then hook it up to the TV at the hotel to kill a couple of hours before bed. Not a bad deal since I'm on the market for an iPod anyway.
You don't see it, that's fine, but that doesn't mean everybody's stupid.
Sony vs Sony (Score:5, Insightful)
One has to protect the content at all costs, the other has to sell hardware with restrictions imposed by the content division. What fun it must be to work at Sony
It's like all the DVD players they sold that wouldn't read DVD-R (even those written in Sony burners) a few years ago.
Re:Hahahah. (Score:3, Insightful)
DVDs, encumbered with the stupid zoning and encryption as they are are, at least reasonably versatile. I can read them on my desktop, on my TV, on my laptop, I can rip them to a pocket media player...
When you buy UMD content, there's a fair chance you'll never be able to do anything worthwile with it, even if you manage to extract the video, it will look like VHS at best. But it's still sold at about the same price as a DVD.
All in all it's not very tempting.
Re:anyone else (Score:3, Insightful)
Why would they do that when they've discovered that millions [joystiq.com] of suckers will pay for both a DVD and UMD of their favorite movie(s)?