One of our longtime readers, Brian B., recently attempted to purchase the PSP camera,
Chotto Shot. However, when he attempted to purchase the product, he got a strange, foreboding message from the retailer. "Due to a safety issue and high defect rate, we are issuing a product recall to anyone who has purchased a PSP Chotto Shot Camera after July 1st, 2008. Even though these units have been tested, we have been getting reports that some of these units have been running extremely hot, and have emitted a burning smell from the unit. An already dangerous and unfortunate situation, this could lead to the even more serious event of a fire starting from the unit."
According to the retailer, "the manufacturer is already aware of the problem." Considering the camera is
not available in America, we cannot contact a SCEA representative to comment on this problem. However, a look at both import sites Play-Asia and NCSX show that the PSP camera is currently not in stock.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-11-2008 @ 10:06PM
Jacksons said...
1/3 the photo quality of my 8 year old digital camera. I don't understand the attraction.
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8-11-2008 @ 10:34PM
Anthony said...
i did just get an email update from play-asia saying that the chotto chot was out of stock.
interesting...
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8-11-2008 @ 10:45PM
Andrew said...
that sucks
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8-11-2008 @ 11:30PM
Yan said...
wow. luckily i got mines before july 1st so mines should be okay.
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8-12-2008 @ 12:07AM
Lucky_Bastard said...
this is true. mine feels hot after long use.. thank god i already sold it.
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8-12-2008 @ 12:37AM
Yan said...
when did you get yours? after july 1st?
8-12-2008 @ 5:41AM
elephant_stone said...
Mine seems fine - although I hardly use it. I got it free from ThreeSpeech.com :)
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8-12-2008 @ 7:59AM
ikebana said...
This is really bad...it will totally disappoint the current users of the camera. This must be rectified ASAP.
http://www.ashopping.biz/
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8-14-2008 @ 2:12AM
Yan said...
so how does it disappoint me? i been using it to make videos and uploading to youtube with no problems.
@ lucky_bastard
i guess you have doubts about your camera even though you bought it a year ago. =/
8-12-2008 @ 8:19AM
Lucky_Bastard said...
@yan
funny thing. mine was purchased april 2007.
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8-12-2008 @ 1:16PM
Manuel said...
dang. And I was thinking of getting one. :(
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8-12-2008 @ 5:49PM
1stladyofkrypton said...
Okay, completely off topic but, what PSP is that? I've never seen that color before.
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8-12-2008 @ 6:00PM
Soapy911 said...
cool. a portable flamethrower
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8-13-2008 @ 8:49AM
dust said...
I cant help but wonder if this is Sony spreading a lie to keep us from importing it.
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8-14-2008 @ 3:56AM
Lucky_Bastard said...
@Yan
No doubts. it doesn't affect the performance of the cam, u just need to cool it down a little. mine just like 4 times it happened. i sold that cam and bought a GPS on my PsP. Very useful while travelling.
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8-15-2008 @ 6:37AM
dentaku said...
Well, you can burn insects by reflecting the sun in it's tiny lense, but anything else is just psp-bashing.
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