the most annying thing here is that we have to work hard to CONVERT files to sony video format, which takes time, process space and is quite not needed...
This is the reason ATRAC3 is dead..

Now what do you mean we can just copy ipod video files? they are DRM based???

they should work on making it easy to copy WMV files.

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So, does anyone know if you will be able to upgrade the old PSP Media Software to this version? I am not finding anything on Sony's site.

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Yeah I just got the email for a discounted price of $9 bucks the software seems like it's where it should of been a while ago. I'm not complaining I like it alot

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I really don't see why the iPod/Apple bashing is necessary, especially to say something nice about Sony. So, basically, the last comment is saying, "Since Micrsoft is being stubborn and won't support other (open) standards, then we'll go ahead and conform to them. Wouldn't it be nice if Apple made it easy to get Microsoft's standard on their product?"

First of all, Apple wouldn't do something unless, at very least, Mac users could do it to. So how about Microsoft releasing Media Center Software for OS X (Wouldn't that just cheese Apple off???)?

Second, doing that would cut into the iTunes TV Show $$. Simple economics there...

Third, I still maintain that, although you can view pictures and video on the iPod, it's STILL just an MP3 player and doesn't compete on the same level as the PSP. When Apple can do it RIGHT and make it EASY, they'll do it. For now, video on the iPod is like a camera on a cell phone. This is much like the PSP and how, yes it CAN play music, but the iPod is MUCH more suited to it.

Fourth, the PSP is 'okay' as a PMP. Until it gets a hard drive and an SD slot, it's of little use to me as a PMP.

Don't get me wrong, I love the PSP. The graphics are awsome and it's a great machine, but there are still steps needed to make it a GREAT PMP.

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Arggh, so they want more money...that does not make me happy...ahh well, I guess I'll stick with my freeware.

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While I'm a huge fan of Futurama, someone has to address Mr. Zoidberg... and I'd rather it was me than one of those new borderline illiterate psp fanboys we seem to be attracting.

The bashing is necessary to spark almost pointless internet debate. Be realistic.

Anyway, your first 2 points are valid. Now HOW is it like a camera on a cellphone? Do you know how necessary a camera is on a cellphone nowadays? Not for the nerds that troll video game forums, but for the typical youth that actually knows girls and has social outlets outside of WoW. Average teenagers/college students wouldn't consider a phone unless it has that shitty little camera. Cellphones ARE suited to low-res, on-the-go, never-plan-on-printing cameras.

Regarding your 4th point, I agree we can use a hard drive (as an optional unit... we shouldn't be forced to pay for the expensive flash memory if we don't want it). But the sd card comment? Have you been to a price comparison site lately? Pro Duo cards are extremely comparable in price to SD cards. Look it up.

What you should've addressed (here come the fanboys) is the true portability of the PSP. But I've purchased 6 different cases for it to find the slimmest case possible. I settled on the horribly ugly Gamestop aluminum case, but it's still bulky in my pocket (I don't wear baggy jeans or cargo pants like some of you).

I just toss my Ipod with screen protector in my pocket with my keys. No case. It's all good.

BUYAKA!

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Checking out pricewatch.com:

59.99 secure digital 4gb
34.50 secure digital 2gb
12.98 secure digital 1gb
11.98 secure digital 512mb
11.85 secure digital 256mb
9.09 secure digital 128mb
9.85 secure digital 64mb
14.95 secure digital 32mb

29.99 memory stick pro high speed
41.00 memory stick pro duo gaming
121.75 memory stick pro duo 4gb
59.98 memory stick pro duo 2gb
34.98 memory stick pro duo 1gb
29.99 memory stick pro duo 512mb
29.00 memory stick pro duo 256mb

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To address the SD slot comment, it was meant so that i could take the memory card out of my camera. put it in the psp and dump them on the HD of the PSP (and look at the photos i've taken so far). This I can do with the iPod right now with an add-on. I don't care if the SD option is an add-on, it should be there though along with the HD to make it truely useful for me. For a while, I had a Sony TSC-1 pocket camera that used a MSPD card and it was awsome being able to pull the card out and look at the pictures on a bigger and clearer screen, but then I bought a Nikon D50 SLR camera and it uses SD cards (as do most cameras... this kind of goes with the 'following suit' comment...).

Now, the camera phone compaison was meant exactually as you put it. The only reason the iPod has these capabilites is that it would loose a huge audience if they didn't add it. Just like a camera on a phone, there has to be the ability to play videos and look at pictures on MP3 players these days (though the Nano and the Shuffle are doing quite well....). It's a check box item, not a main focus. When Apple is ready to do it right, we'll all know it because they will release a "real" PMP and not just an iPod with video capability (though it will probably bear the iPod name, IF they do one at all...).

As far as the price compairisons between SD and MSPD, it depends on the week. The cheapest I've been able to find a 1 GB MSPD card (Brick and Morter stores) is $40 (which, really, has come down in price by a HUGE amount). I bought a 1 GB SD card for half that. Now, when SD cards aren't on sale, they're about the same (though that $40 price is a MSPD card on sale, so usually they're $60, and the SD cards are ~$40). You just have to watch the price.

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Right...
PSP trumps the iPod as the PSP has... a whopping 4 GB of storage? That's FANTASTIC for all those videos you can't bring with you!

Thanks but I'll keep my 60 gigs of iPod storage (music, podcasts if i can even utter that word anymore, and especially video). I've really found that PSP is useless as a multimedia machine as it doesn't slip into a pocket and has an extremely limited capacity. To me, it's just for games, and it does that well.

I love my PSP, but only as a gaming machine.
For years I dreamed of having GTA with me anywhere I went. Now I have it. I don't need it to be a swiss army knife, just the games please.

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homi, your prices aren't the lowest for MS. Just the other day a link was posted to a 4GB Pro Duo for $85. Using Froogle (Pricewatch sucks these days), I get the following low prices for MS Pro Duos:

2GB $27.38
1GB $19.00
etc...

So yes, MS is definitely now in line with SD.

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Still in line price wise?? Really, because i used Froogle to find a $12 1GB SD Card and a $21 2 GB Card for SD. SD is still lower by about 1/3.

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