PlayStation Portable "PSP" shown with "Value Pack" retail box including accessories. The PlayStation Portable, also known as the PSP, is a handheld game console and a product of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan. It is Sony's third installment in its successful PlayStation line of video game consoles. The PSP was first announced during E³ 2003 and was unveiled on May 11, 2004 at a Sony press conference during E³ 2004. First released in Japan, its official retail release date was December 12, 2004. It was released in North America on March 24, 2005. It will be released in Europe and Australia on September 1, 2005 [1] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4481991.stm). Sony had delayed the European launch (originally set for March) to meet demand from other regions. The PSP launched in South Korea on May 2, 2005 and was followed by a joint launch in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan on May 12, 2005. PSP Value pack. ...
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The PlayStation (Japanese: プレイステーション) is a video game console of the 32-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the 1990s. ...
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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ...
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September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years). ...
2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The PSP can play video games, video content, and digital audio, as well as displaying digital photos. Instead of being distributed on traditional ROM cartridges with battery-backed RAM for saves, games and other content are sold on Sony's new 1.8 GB Universal Media Discs (UMDs). The Memory Stick Duo (regular or Pro, but the high-speed mode of high-speed Sticks isn't supported) is used for storing saved games and moving multimedia to the PSP from other devices. Other notable features of the PSP include WiFi wireless networking support, a rechargeable and removable battery, 4.3 inch (109 mm) TFT LCD 480x272 pixel flat screen, and a sliding flat panel analog stick. According to the E3 show the PSP will be able to connect to the PS3 and make itself a video enabled game controller. Computer and video games A screenshot of Tetris for the Nintendo Game Boy A console game (better known as a video game) is a form of interactive multimedia used for entertainment, which consists of a moveable image displayed on a screen that is usually controlled and manipulated using a handheld...
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Universal Media Disc: Front Universal Media Disc: Back The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable. ...
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Games
Gran Turismo 4 Mobile and UMD. A variety of first- and third-party games are in development. The PSP's inputs are geared for gaming rather than multimedia, with two shoulder buttons (triggers), the iconic PlayStation face buttons, (△○×□: triangle, circle, square, and X buttons), start and select buttons, a digital 4-directional pad, and an analog input. There is also a panel of secondary controls along the underside of the screen, for controlling volume, music settings (either switching the soundtrack off and on in games or selecting different equalizer settings in the OS), screen brightness, accessing the system's main menu, as well as the Sony standard Start and Select buttons. This work is copyrighted. ...
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Universal Media Disc: Front Universal Media Disc: Back The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable. ...
Multimedia is the use of several different media to convey information (text, audio, graphics, animation, video, and interactivity). ...
The PSP's analog input is not a traditional stick, but a sliding flat panel; its odd placement originally led to speculation it was a speaker. Concerns existed regarding the practicality of the input (its position requires a slightly asymmetrical grip on the unit to adequately use, with the left hand being lower than the right.) While it is used in the same way as the analog thumbstick of a modern console, the resistance springs are calibrated differently: they are softer, making quick, coarse adjustments a bit easier, but fine-grained ones a bit more difficult.
A list of PlayStation Portable game articles and List of PlayStation Portable games are available. This is a list of games on the Sony PlayStation Portable handheld game console, both released and in development. ...
Movies Because of the UMD's relatively large storage space, and the PSP's large display screen, film studios have taken the decision to release some of their catalog on UMD in order that they can be played on a PSP. They are priced similarly to DVD videos. Companies that are releasing UMD movies include Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Lions Gate Entertainment, and Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures. Most releases will provide alternate audio languages and content, subtitles, and special features. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
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Sony spokespersons have stated that they intend to match regional DVD prices (for example, between $20 and $28 in the United States), but many retailers are ignoring the MSRP and have been selling movies on UMD Video for as low as $12.99. In Japan, plans exist to release video content in DVD/UMD bundles. [2] (http://psp.ign.com/articles/605/605073p1.html) For people whose family name is Price see Price (disambiguation). ...
Movies were first made available in April 2005 and the first batch included House of Flying Daggers, xXx,Hellboy, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse from Sony Pictures, along with Kill Bill: Volume 1 and Pirates of the Carribean from the Miramax wing of Disney Pictures. Promotional poster for House of Flying Daggers House of Flying Daggers (Chinese: 十面埋伏; pinyin: ), is a 2004 action/romance movie directed by Zhang Yimou. ...
xXx, pronounced Triple X, is a 2002 action movie starring Vin Diesel. ...
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) is an action film by Robert Rodriguez, the capper to the El Mariachi trilogy, which includes El Mariachi and Desperado. ...
Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the sequel to the 2002 film Resident Evil from Screen Gems, written by Paul W. S. Anderson and directed by Alexander Witt. ...
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is the television and film production unit of Japan-based corporate giant Sony. ...
Kill Bill is the fourth feature film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino released in two parts: Volume 1 & Volume 2. ...
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ...
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Launches
Japanese launch The first shipment of 200,000 PSP units were made available for purchase in Japan on December 12, 2004. All units were sold out within the first two days. Some users have reported problems with the launch units, including dead pixels (discolored squares) within the screen and game discs ejecting abruptly if the system is twisted (the latter being restricted to the Japanese units from the initial launch). In Japan, Sony is offering to replace PSPs under warranty as normal, however they have stated that they do not consider a display to be faulty unless four faulty pixels are within 1 cm (0.39 in) of each other. December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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A dead pixel is a defective pixel that remains unlit, permanently lit, or a solid color on an LCD screen or monitor. ...
In Japan, two sales packs are available. The basic package contains the console, battery, and AC adaptor for ¥20,790 including tax (around US$193, €148, UK£106). The "Value Pack" contains the console, battery, AC adaptor, 32MB Memory Stick Pro Duo, headphones with remote, slip-case, and wrist strap, for ¥26,040 including tax (around US$245, €192, UK£133). An alternating current (AC) is an electrical current, where the magnitude and direction of the current varies cyclically, as opposed to direct current, where the direction of the current stays constant. ...
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Japanese launch games Armored Core 3 Armored Core is a mecha-based video game series for the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. ...
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Ridge Racer on the PlayStation Ridge Racer is the name of an arcade and home 3-D racing game developed and published by Namco. ...
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Lumines is a game released in 2005 for the PlayStation Portable. ...
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North American launch The PSP was released on March 24, 2005 in North America (the United States and Canada). The only package on sale is the Value Pack, identical to the Japanese release save for the inclusion of a UMD of preview videos, and the bundle in North America includes the Spiderman 2 movie and a cleaning cloth for US$249.99 or CDN$299.99. Sony claims it will have one million units available for sale in these territories by the end of the fiscal year (March 31, 2005). In order to accommodate the large demand in North America the European release date was pushed back several months. In the US, the first million units include the movie Spider-Man 2 on UMD, free of charge. In Canada, PSP bundles were made available with Gretzky NHL (a Sony-developed hockey game). March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ...
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Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to the popular 2002 film Spider-Man and was released in the U.S. on June 30, 2004. ...
Universal Media Disc: Front Universal Media Disc: Back The Universal Media Disc (UMD) is an optical disc medium developed by Sony for use on the PlayStation Portable. ...
After user complaints, Sony instituted a replacement policy for dead pixels more liberal than the one instituted in Japan. In North America Sony will replace a PSP for a single dead pixel, but asks users to wait for "a week or two" of use to see if the dead pixel is truly intrusive. It is unclear what stance Sony's European branch will take on LCD quality. World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...
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Lumines is a game released in 2005 for the PlayStation Portable. ...
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European Launch The PSP is to be released in Europe on the 1st of September, five months after Sony's original estimate (March). This was due to high demand for the system in other territories—namely the North America and Japan. Like the American launch, the Value Pack will be the only available package type, retailing for £179 or EUR249. An undisclosed number of users (on a "first come, first served" basis) will receive a free Spider-Man 2 Video UMD after registering their systems on SCEE's Your PSP (http://www.yourpsp.com) web portal. Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ...
Singaporean Launch The PSP is to be released in Singapore on the 12th of May, retailing at SGD$455 for the Value Pack. There will be no free Spider-Man 2 Video UMD included in the package. However, MySony (http://www.sony.com.sg/mysony/index.html?page=sonyhome) members are entitled to participate in a pre-order programme (http://www.sony.com.sg/email/psp/index.html) from 28th of April to 3rd of May. The special pre-order package, retailing at SGD$499, consists of a Value Pack, an extended 18 month warranty, a PSP "Goodie" Pack (PSP pouch, UMD case, handstraps and wristbands) and a pair of tickets to the Singapore PSP launch party on the 5th of May at renowned dance club, Zouk. Zouk is a nightclub in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. ...
Australian and New Zealand Launch The PSP is to be released in Australia and New Zealand on September 1, 2005. It will be sold in a single version value pack consisting of PlayStation Portable system with a pouch, 32MB Memory Stick Duo, Battery Pack, Headphones with Remote Control, AC Adaptor, Wrist strap, cloth and a video/music/game sampler Universal Media Disc (UMD) including several non-interactive game demos.
It will retail for AU$429.95 (NZ$469.95).
A copy of Spider-Man 2, on UMD Video will be available as an extra value offer to early purchasers of PlayStation Portable, who register their PlayStation Portable and order their Spider-Man 2 UMD Video through www.yourpsp.com.au (www.yourpsp.co.nz), the official SCEE web portal for PlayStation Portable.
Design and specifications
Technical specifications The unit measures 170 mm (6.7 in) (Length) * 74 mm (2.9 in) (Width) * 23 mm (0.9 in) (Depth), and weighs 260 grams (9.17 oz) including the battery. The most noticeable element of the PSP is its 4.3" 16:9 ratio TFT LCD screen sporting a 480 x 272 pixel resolution capable of 16.77 million colors. For other meanings of gram, see gram (disambiguation). ...
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TFT LCDs are a variant of liquid crystal display which use thin-film transistor technology to improve their image quality. ...
The PlayStation Portable's CPU is a MIPS R4000 (32-bit) CPU, split into two cores each operating between 1 and 333 MHz. (During GDC, Sony claimed it has currently capped the PSP's CPU at 222 MHz in hopes of prolonging battery life. When battery technology catches up with the PSP, Sony could remove the cap and allow the PSP to function at peak performance.) The primary CPU core is responsible for traditional game processor functions; the secondary core, dubbed the "Virtual Media Engine", is responsible for decoding multimedia, for example the H.264 decoder. The central processing unit (CPU) is the part of a computer that interprets and carries out the instructions contained in the software. ...
A MIPS R4400 microprocessor made by Toshiba MIPS, for Microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages, is a RISC microprocessor architecture developed by MIPS Computer Systems Inc. ...
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H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). ...
The system has 32 MB of main RAM and 4 MB of embedded DRAM. A megabyte (derived from the SI prefix mega-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one million bytes. ...
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The independent 166 MHz 90 nm graphics chip sports 2MB embedded memory and through its 512 bit interface it provides hardware polygon and NURBS rendering, hardware directional lighting, clipping, environment projection and texture mapping, texture compression and tessellation, fogging, alpha blending, depth and stencil tests, vertex blending for morphing effects, and dithering, all in 16 or 32 bit colour, along with handling image output. Specifications state that the PSP is capable of rendering 33 million flat-shaded polygons per second, with a 664 million pixel per second fill rate. (source: press release on Aug 25 2004 by Masanobu Okabe of Sony, processor designer - example news article here (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1639250,00.asp)) Wiktionary has a definition of: Polygon A polygon (literally many angle, see Wiktionary for the etymology) is a closed planar path composed of a finite number of sequential line segments. ...
NURBS, short for nonuniform rational B-spline, is a computer graphics technique for drawing curves. ...
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Clipping has several meanings: Telecommunications In telecommunication, the term clipping has the following meanings: In telephony, the loss of the initial or final parts of a word, words, or syllable, usually caused by the nonideal operation of voice-actuated devices. ...
Texture mapping is a method of adding realism to a computer-generated graphic. ...
A tessellated plane A tessellation of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fill the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. ...
Distance fog is a technique used in 3D computer graphics to enhance the perception of distance. ...
Alpha blending is a convex combination of two colors allowing for transparency effects in computer graphics. ...
Morphing is a special effect used in motion pictures and animations. ...
Unlike Sony's PlayStation 2 console, the GPU (PS2 Vector Unit equivalent) is not programmable, meaning that many effects that the PS2 can resolve in hardware must be implemented in software on the PSP. The PlayStation 2 (PS2) (Japanese: プレイステーション2) is Sonys second video game console, after the PlayStation. ...
Multimedia & codecs The PSP is capable of displaying still image, movie, and audio files stored on the UMD disk format or a memory stick. The system supports MP3 and Sony's ATRAC3plus formats for audio, AVC (H.264 encoding, in an *.mp4 wrapper instead of *.avi) for video, and JPEG images. The PSP also has the capability to decode MPEG-4 Part 2 and MPEG-4 Part 3 from the memory stick. MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. ...
ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) is an audio compression algorithm used to store information on Minidiscs and other Sony-branded audio players. ...
H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). ...
MPEG-4 Part 14 or *.mp4, is a file format (a so called container) specified as a part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard. ...
AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a video file format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ...
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MPEG-4 Part 2 is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standard. ...
MPEG-4 Part 3 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-3) is, as the name suggests, the third part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard. ...
Sony has announced that Image Converter 2, a piece of PC software for converting video files to AVC for playback on CLIÉ PDAs, will be available before the end of the year, and may be used with the PSP. A preview version was made available shortly after the PSP launch. It can convert AVI, MPEG1/2/4, QuickTime and WMV movie files to AVC, as well as the "Giga Pocket" and "Do VAIO" files used by VAIO PCs to record television. It will also convert most common still image files into JPEG format. Sony's SonicStage software can be used to copy MP3s and ATRAC files to the PSP as well. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...
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Palm IIIxe PDA Personal digital assistants (PDAs or palmtops) are handheld devices that were originally designed as personal organizers, but became much more versatile over the years. ...
AVI, an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, is a video file format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992, as part of the Video for Windows technology. ...
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is a small group charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ...
QuickTime logo QuickTime is a multimedia technology developed by Apple Computer, capable of handling various formats of digital video, sound, text, animation, music, and immersive virtual reality panoramic images. ...
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of streaming video technologies developed by Microsoft. ...
VAIO notebook VAIO, an acronym for Video Audio Integrated Operation, is a brand slogan for many of Sonys computer products. ...
MP3 is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format. ...
Sony's software is not the only toolset for getting music or movies onto a PSP, and a cottage industry has grown around offering useful tools for converting and copying files for use on the PSP. Some popular alternatives include iPSP (http://www.kaisakura.com/iPSP/), PSPWare (http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/pspware), and PSP Multimedia Extender (http://sonypsp.sourceforge.net/) all simplify the task of converting and transferring files to and from the PSP's Memory Stick. Using these tools, nearly any digital video file (including movie files ripped from DVDs or digital video recorders like the TiVo) can be played on a PSP, after conversion to AVC. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
The TiVo personal video recorder is a consumer video component allowing users to capture television programming to internal hard drive storage. ...
In January 2005, Sony announced plans for the creation of software that allows for watching television broadcasts via WiFi which will be released for both the PSP and Sony's portable television sets. Sony plans to add the functionality to PSP in the first half of 2005. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in January • 29 Ephraim Kishon • 25 Philip Johnson • 23 Johnny Carson • 22 Parveen Babi • 20 Jan Nowak-Jeziorański • 17 Virginia Mayo • 17 Zhao Ziyang • 15 Ruth Warrick • 14 Rudolph Moshammer Recent deaths Ongoing events • Tsunami relief...
In addition, Sony has announced plans for an iTunes Music Store-like download capability, using its Sony Connect service, to be added in the near future to the PSP. Users will be able to use the online component of the PSP to buy songs or albums and listen to them on the PSP, with a similar pricing strategy as iTunes. Downloadable content for games (tracks and vehicles for Wipeout Pure, for example) as well as playable game demos are also promised. As of yet, no announcement for a rollout date in any region has been announced. iTunes Music Store currently viewing the United States store. ...
Sony Connect is an application made by Sony to compete with Apples ITunes. ...
Wireless networking Wi-Fi support allows the PSP to connect to wireless networks, other PSP units for multiplayer gaming, the Internet, and according to several industry insiders, Sony's upcoming PlayStation 3. Details for Internet connections or what that would entail have yet to be announced (and may not ever materialize), and, as with everything about the PlayStation 3, any sort of handheld/console connectivity is rumor at best. The PlayStation 3 (colloquially known as the PS3) is the next video game console in Sony Computer Entertainments (SCEI) market-leading PlayStation series. ...
Recently, PSP hackers have used the web browser provided for the purpose of downloading extra content in Wipeout: Pure to view legitimate webpages and search via Google. This merely involves setting up your PSP's primary DNS server so it reaches a PSP webportal (http://67.171.70.72/wipeout/index.html) and your secondary DNS server to your router IP address. Whenever you access the downloads section of Wipeout Pure, you will be promptly redirected to the webportal. Google, Inc. ...
Ad-hoc networks Ad-hoc wireless networking allows up to 16 PSPs to communicate with other units within range, directly, typically for multiplayer gaming. The launch titles Ridge Racer and Lumines, for example, support this. One unit can act as the host for a game, which is available to other PSP units within that systems range, and appears in a list when the client PSP searches for available hosts. As expected, hosting a game in this manner increases power consumption and reduces battery life. Lumines is a game released in 2005 for the PlayStation Portable. ...
In computing, a client is a system that accesses a (remote) service on another computer by some kind of network. ...
Infrastructure networks The PSP's main menu allows the user to configure the system for use across the Internet via a wireless connection, known as infrastructure mode. The PSP's menu can recognize protected and non-protected wireless networks within its range, and attempt to request a firmware update from Sony's servers.
A handful of titles, including three U.S. launch games and an as-of-yet untitled MMORPG, have been announced which use this wireless network functionality. Packet tunneling systems are in development by third-parties which allow any Wi-fi game to operate across the Internet (see external links, below). The United States of America — also referred to as the United States, the U.S.A., the U.S., America, the States, or (archaically) Columbia—is a federal republic of 50 states located primarily in central North America (with the exception of two states: Alaska and Hawaii). ...
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Use of infrastructure networks in PSP software began with a small number of titles at the US launch, supporting online play. South Korean PSPs will ship with software providing web browsing and multimedia streaming features, but only though company-owned WiFi hotspots, and with a monthly fee[3] (http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/03/28/news_6121153.html). South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK; Korean: Daehan Minguk (Hangul: 대한 민국; Hanja: 大韓民國)), is a country in East Asia, covering the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. ...
Game sharing Sony has confirmed that it will be possible for hosts of games to transmit playable game files to PSPs lacking that game (listed on the main menu as "Game Sharing"), in a manner similar to single-cartridge Game Boy Advance or Nintendo DS multiplayer. While a Namco Museum title has been demonstrated sending single-player games to other systems using this feature, no multiplayer functions using this feature have yet been revealed. The Game Boy Advance is a best-selling handheld. ...
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Wired networking The USB connection allows the PSP to connect to the PS2 or PC. Armored Core: Formula Front, for example, allows players to connect their PS2 and PSP versions to share information, such as parts and AI configurations, between the two. Also, users can connect their PSPs to the Internet via a USB or wireless connection to a PC, and copy their vehicles temporarily to other players' PSPs, in order to compete. Note: USB may also mean upper sideband in radio. ...
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The PSP can also be connected to a PC via USB to allow the computer to copy files to the inserted Memory Stick, using the mass storage device driver.
Power The PSP uses a rechargeable lithium-ion battery for power (an AC adaptor is included for charging and running from the mains). The system's manual states that the PSP is capable of 4 to 6 hours of gameplay on average, or 4 to 5 hours of movie UMD playback on average, depending on the screen brightness or volume level selected. Li-Ion Camera Battery Lithium ion batteries (or Li-ion) have become very common and dropped in price recently. ...
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Battery life is heavily dependent on the game chosen; games such as Lumines are expected to greatly extend the battery life of the system, with graphically advanced games (or games that frequently access the UMD drive) such as Ridge Racers providing shorter battery life. Sony Corporation COO, Ken Kutaragi, has compared the system to the Walkman, in that battery life will be improved with each product revision, and has outlined some steps (switching to a different fabrication process, for example) which will be used to improve the system's endurance. Currently the PSP's CPU is fabricated using a 90-nm process, but Sony has 65-nm and 45-nm technology available. Lumines is a game released in 2005 for the PlayStation Portable. ...
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In practice, tests using Ridge Racers have given between three and a half and slightly less than six hours of continuous gameplay, depending on screen brightness and volume. In one test[4] (http://psp.ign.com/articles/574/574557p1.html), this dropped to approximately two and three quarter hours when using Wi-Fi multiplayer continuously. The system is capable of approximately ten hours of MP3 playback from memory stick on a full charge and around half this for AVC playback. While full-length movie UMDs were not available for this test, a repeating loop of the demo UMD bundled in the Value Pack provided a little over 4 hours of playback on a full charge.
The PSP's battery is removable for replacement by the end-user. This may be a response to the criticism of the nonremovable batteries in other portable electronics such as the iPod. One is thus able to purchase extra batteries as an accessory; at the Japanese launch, they cost ¥5,040 including tax (around US$47, €37, £26, AU$62). A fourth-generation iPod with earphones. ...
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Various third parties are providing options for extending the PSP's battery life. For example, carrying cases with built-in batteries and charging connectors to the PSP are in development, and one case aimed at movie fans integrates a battery, PSP stand, and speakers.
The system ships with a multivoltage power supply for recharging the battery allowing it to be charged in any country with the appropriate power lead. The PSU itself is about the same size as a deck of cards and has a standard figure of eight power input allowing different leads to be plugged in.
A number of companies are now offering other chargers for the device. These are typically either USB charging cables that allow the PSP to charge from any PC with a USB port or are simply a series of AA batteries with a voltage regulator.
Operating system The PSP's main menu interface is the XMB ("Cross Media Bar") used by recent Sony TVs and the PSX hardware. It consists of a horizontal sequence of icons (Settings ,Video, Music, Photo, Games) which when highlighted show a vertical sequence of sub-icons (for example, selecting Games allows the memory stick or a UMD to be selected). PSX is the name of a Sony media center, PVR and DVD recorder based on the PlayStation 2 video game console. ...
The main menu system allows the user to, amongst other things, adjust settings such as date, time, and the PSP's nickname for wireless networking, play video or audio files from the memory stick, load games or movie UMDs, check on estimated battery life, and set the PSP into a "link mode" which makes the inserted memory stick available to a PC via USB. The OS may be accessed at any time in a game by pressing the "Home" button on the console.
The default background colour of the menus is blue, however it changes colour depending on the current month of year, as follows:
- January: Light Blue
- February: Yellow
- March: Green
- April: Pink
- May: Dark Green
- June: Purple
- July: Aqua
- August: Sky Blue
- September: Violet
- October: Gold
- November: Light Brown
- December: Red
User skins can also made available from game publishers within their game discs, an ability that publishers have yet to take advantage of.
The PSP's firmware is apparently updateable via WiFi, or games. (The Japanese firmware has already been updated, to fix certain problems with the WiFi "infrastructure" mode, used for connecting to the internet.) There are rumors, based on some early firmware evidence of questionable validity, that future firmware upgrades may incorporate support for a web browser, email, scheduler, voice recording, word processing, or spreadsheet software.
Region locking The PSP supports region locking for games and movies, which limits which software may be played on each region's hardware. They have announced in interviews that the system will adopt the DVD CCA's DVD regional lockout scheme; Japanese PSP hardware already has a R2 logo on its box. However, support for regional lockout does not necessarily mean it will be used for all software. DVD is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for storing data, including movies with high video and sound quality. ...
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According to Sony, games for the PSP will currently be encoded as region-free, and a recent statement (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=58810) states that this will continue indefinately. There will be no limitation as to what country's handheld can play what country's version of the game. This will open up the "portability" of the handheld, as well as enable gamers who buy a PSP game on holiday to play it on their native PSPs. GameSpot released a hands-on review of the US version PSP before launch. They were able to play Japanese games on the US PSP and vice-versa, but the Spider-Man 2 UMD would not play on the Japanese PSP, proving that movies are region locked, and the games, for now at least, are not. IGN had also conducted a similar test. The GameSpot Portal provides access to both textual and multimedia content GameSpot is a website launched in 1996 by Pete Deemer, Vince Broady and Jon Epstein. ...
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"PSPCasting" The PSP's large screen and the tools made available to get open-content videos on to the device have prompted some people to acquire the device more for its video playback than its gaming capabilities. The developer of PSP Video 9, an encoding tool for Windows XP coined the term PSPCasting to refer to the process of creating video content, encoding it in AVC, and then sharing it on an RSS or similar feed to be automatically downloaded, much like podcasting, only with video instead of music. While this infrastructure is not as elegant as podcasting (from which it obviously gets its name) because of the less-elegant tools and inherent larger size of video files, the term has caught on in the blogging community, and many developers are working on more efficient ways to get video content made available for the PSP. As of late March 2005, there is already plenty of free content available on the various P2P networks, formatted specifically for the PSP's video playback capabilities. Windows XP (codename Whistler, also known as Windows NT 5. ...
PSPCasting The PSPs large screen and the tools made available to get open-content videos on to the device have prompted some people to acquire the device more for its video playback than its gaming capabilities. ...
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Creating video content Several third-party products have been created specifically to format video for the PSP. In addition to codec and aspect ratio restrictions, the files must be placed in the /MP_ROOT/100MNV01 directory on the Memory Stick, and be named in the following format M4V#####.MP4 (where "#" is any digit). Some of these products automatically create corresponding .THM files, which are JPEG files of an exact aspect ratio of 160x120, renamed with a THM extension and a name matching one of the MP4 files in the same directory. A digit is: In anatomy, a finger or toe. ...
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Though file sizes largely depend on the audio sampling rates and video resolution, A 22 minute TV program at a aspect ratio of 320x240 and an audio sampling rate of 22050 kHz is roughly 55 megabytes in MP4. This means that a 512 MB Memory Stick (which costs roughly $70) can hold about 9 of these shows. The aspect ratio of a two-dimensional shape is the ratio of its longest dimension to its shortest dimension. ...
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Sharing and acquiring video content Most P2P systems already have PSP formatted content available, and several PSP-oriented Bittorrent sites have sprung up, specifically offering video content and themes specifically formatted for compatibility with the PSP. The acronym P2P has the following main meanings: Peer-to-peer (communication, network, etc) point-to-point(communication, network, etc) Person to Person. ...
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Homebrew game development and hacking As of May 2005 it has been found that PSPs using the 1.00 version of the firmware (meaning Japanese PSPs that have not been updated to the latest firmware) can execute unsigned code. What this means in practice is that these PSPs can run homebrew software, as the mechanism for checking to make sure that software has been approved by Sony hadn't yet been activated. (A proof-of-concept "Hello World" program has been released to demonstrate this.) While the version 1.00 firmware has been dumped from the Japanese PSPs (by desoldering the firmware flash chip and reading it), there is currently no way to revert firmware versions downwards, save for desoldering the equivalent flash chip, reprogramming it, and resoldering it. More hacks include having a Gameboy emulator and a SNES emulator too. In cryptography, digital signatures are a method of authenticating digital information often treated, sometimes too closely, as analogous to a physical signature on paper. ...
In addition, UMDs were recently dumped using a homebrew technique that allowed the UMD discs to be read to files over USB. Also these dumped UMD disks are able to be inserted on a Memory Stick and played on a 1.00 firmware PSP.
See also
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Download high resolution version (600x742, 184 KB)Photo of the Sony PSP and Nintendo DS, taken by my friend Richard. ...
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External links Official : Reviews : - Sony PSP As Personal Media Player (http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/5002/psp_review.html) - Detailed review on MP3 Newswire focused on the PSP's movie and audio abilities
- Sony PSP Handheld Entertainment System (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/psp.ars/) – In-depth 8-pages review, Ars Technica, 28 March 2005
Interviews : MP3 Newswire is one of the earliest news sites focused on digital media technology. ...
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- Izumi Kawanishi (http://www.pspemu.com/psp-developer-interview-1.htm) : An interview with Izumi Kawanishi, one of the lead developers of the Playstation Portable, covering everything from hardware specifications to the finer details of the PSP's design.
Media coverage & articles : - Sony PSP Handheld Entertainment System (http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/psp.ars/) – In-depth 8-pages review, Ars Technica, 28 March 2005
- Sony takes on GameBoy (http://money.cnn.com/2003/05/13/technology/e3_psp/) – CNN/Money, 14 May 2003
- The PSP FAQ (http://psp.ign.com/articles/513/513175p1.html) – PSP.ign.com
- PSPCasting information (http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/psp/variation-on-a-theme-pspcasting-036603.php) – From Gizmodo
- PSP Size Comparison (http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/live-blogging/photo-psp-size-comparison-036212.php) – Kotaku
- PSP Photos and Specs (http://www.ps3land.com/psp.php)– Overview
- First Sony PSP™ sample unit [...]: Image gallery, impressions, and videos of the system (http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-17-74-ox.html) – play-asia.com
- Sony Details PSP Chip Specs @ ExtremeTech (http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1639250,00.asp) – ExtremeTech's PSP preview, August 2004
- UMD Developer Kit (http://www.psp-vault.com/Article82.psp) – Pictures and information, from PSP Vault
- PSP embraced by DIY technicians (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4420745.stm) – BBC News, 7 April 2005
Third-party software and hacks : - The PlayStation Wiki (http://ps-wiki.org) – Dedicated to collecting information about hacks and homebrew software for PlayStation consoles
- iPSP (http://www.kaisakura.com/iPSP/) – Converts and installs movies, music, and images onto a Memory Stick for use in a PSP
- PSPware (http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/pspware) – Converts and installs movies, music, and images for use on a PSP; includes synchronization functionality (Mac-only
- PSP Video 9 (http://www.pspvideo9.com/) – Free video conversion and management (PC)
- J. River Media Center (http://www.jrmediacenter.com/psp.html) – Move music files from your computer to the PSP, upload photos (PC)
- PocketMac (http://www.pocketmac.net/products/pmpsp/psp.html) – Sync Entourage or Address Book contacts, music & photos from your Mac to your PSP using iSync
- Mobile Media Maker (http://www.makayama.com/mobilemediamakerpsp.html) – Convert video files (avi, mpeg, divx, etc.) and DVD into MPEG4 to be viewed on PSP (PC)
- ffmpegx (http://homepage.mac.com/major4/psp.html) – A tutorial on using ffmpegx to encode video files for the PSP (Mac)
- Non-Duo Memory Sticks (http://www.psp-vault.com/Article63.psp) – Pictures and guide on how to use non-duo memory sticks in the PSP, from PSP Vault
News & community : Macintosh, also known as Mac, is a family of personal computers manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. ...
- XLink Kai global gaming network (http://www.teamxlink.co.uk/) – Free online multiplayer PSP gaming, plus Xbox, PS2, and NGC, from one application
- PSP Vault (http://www.psp-vault.com/) – Community for trading and sharing game save files; how-to's on music and video transfer
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