29-Dec-06 14:12:25
Some hapless PowerPoint graphics artist at Samsung may be in trouble, perhaps accidentally (or on purpose?) slipping in a picture of a Sony PSP for Samsung's big roll-out presentation for its latest 60GB 1.8-inch hard drives.
Now speculation runs rampant across the blogosphere, anticipating the next Sony PSP, perhaps at CES 2007 in a couple of weeks. After all, Sony's portable gamer is ripe for a good upgrading.
Or, the graphic could have just been an example of how such a tiny disk packing so much data could be used, you know, hypothetically and all. At this point, it's anybody's guess. – Charlie White
PSP with 60 GB Samsung hard disk? (Google translated) [PSPwelt]
Now speculation runs rampant across the blogosphere, anticipating the next Sony PSP, perhaps at CES 2007 in a couple of weeks. After all, Sony's portable gamer is ripe for a good upgrading.
Or, the graphic could have just been an example of how such a tiny disk packing so much data could be used, you know, hypothetically and all. At this point, it's anybody's guess. – Charlie White
PSP with 60 GB Samsung hard disk? (Google translated) [PSPwelt]
Source: Gizmodo
29-Dec-06 01:12:00
Filed under: Gaming
Hard to imagine, but it's been over two years since Sony unleashed the PSP (at least in Japan), so it stands to reason that we're due for a little upgrade, right? Well, it's difficult to tell precisely what's going on due to the machine translation, but Samsung introduced its new N-Series line of 1.8-inch hard drives today and there's some indication that a 60GB version of the drive may end up in a future PSP. With any luck we may see a proper announcement at CES next month -- we definitely would not kick a 60GB PSP out of bed -- but for right now we're just trying to figure out exactly what Samsung announced today.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Hard to imagine, but it's been over two years since Sony unleashed the PSP (at least in Japan), so it stands to reason that we're due for a little upgrade, right? Well, it's difficult to tell precisely what's going on due to the machine translation, but Samsung introduced its new N-Series line of 1.8-inch hard drives today and there's some indication that a 60GB version of the drive may end up in a future PSP. With any luck we may see a proper announcement at CES next month -- we definitely would not kick a 60GB PSP out of bed -- but for right now we're just trying to figure out exactly what Samsung announced today.
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Source: Engadget
26-Dec-06 22:40:04
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PSP Dark_AleX releases 3.02 OE-B- Run ANY PSX Game at Full Speed on your PSP [PSPNews via Kotaku]
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PSP Dark_AleX releases 3.02 OE-B- Run ANY PSX Game at Full Speed on your PSP [PSPNews via Kotaku]
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Source: Gizmodo
25-Dec-06 21:30:00
Filed under: Gaming
From just about day one, the holy grail of the PSP homebrew scene has been PSX emulation, and while much has been accomplished on this front, the spiffiest emulator yet happens to come courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Itself. Of course, that emulator entails a pay-per-download scheme, limited catalog and requires a PS3 to make it all work, right? Not so much anymore, thanks to hacker extraordinaire Dark_AleX and his new Custom Firmware 3.02 OE-B, which lets you convert your very own PSX ISOs and run them at full speed on the PSP. OE-A worked as a hack for Sony-released download titles by stripping the DRM, but it sounds like OE-B is the real deal here. Sure looks like those PSP fanboys are going to be having some happy holidays this year. Keep reading to spy an incredibly blurry vid of the hack in action.
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From just about day one, the holy grail of the PSP homebrew scene has been PSX emulation, and while much has been accomplished on this front, the spiffiest emulator yet happens to come courtesy of Sony Computer Entertainment Itself. Of course, that emulator entails a pay-per-download scheme, limited catalog and requires a PS3 to make it all work, right? Not so much anymore, thanks to hacker extraordinaire Dark_AleX and his new Custom Firmware 3.02 OE-B, which lets you convert your very own PSX ISOs and run them at full speed on the PSP. OE-A worked as a hack for Sony-released download titles by stripping the DRM, but it sounds like OE-B is the real deal here. Sure looks like those PSP fanboys are going to be having some happy holidays this year. Keep reading to spy an incredibly blurry vid of the hack in action.
Read - DCEMUuk
Read - QJ.netContinue reading Sony's PSX emulator for PSP hacked to run any old PSX ISO
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Source: Engadget
21-Dec-06 18:55:39
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•Meizu Lets Users Design Their Next MP3 Player
•Aliph Jawbone Headset: Gets Sexy Redesign, Super Noise-Cancelling, and Bluetooth
•Onkyo VR-1000J MPEG-4 Recorder: Video Alchemy for Your PSP
•Samsung Puts Cameraphones on a Diet with New Image Sensor
Comment of the Day: Ridiculous Gadget of the Day: BreathCapture
"I think Jason should send some of his breath to Tokyo with Brian, that would be so cool. It would be like that astronaut that used to take a roll of dimes with him into space."--buzzaw0nk
Source: Gizmodo
21-Dec-06 13:27:32
Onkyo wants to make it easy for you to record video from a TV or any other video source onto an SD card with its VR-1000J MPEG-4 Recorder, magically turning it into that MPEG-4 format of the Sony PSP or many mobile phones. No PC required, just plug the video in and out comes the PSP-playable video at 30fps at 320x240 in its superfine mode.
Sure, you can compress video for the PSP and transfer it to SD cards with your PC, and this is not the first MPEG-4 recorder, either—a Neuros MPEG-4 recorder beat this Onkyo unit to market by about two years—but this one looks way cooler with its pyramid-shaped design and greatly simplifies that whole pain-in-the-ass PSP video transfer process. If they ever to bring onto the United States, it'll cost around $171. – Charlie White
VR-1000J, the Onkyo media recorder for PSP [Akihabara News]
Sure, you can compress video for the PSP and transfer it to SD cards with your PC, and this is not the first MPEG-4 recorder, either—a Neuros MPEG-4 recorder beat this Onkyo unit to market by about two years—but this one looks way cooler with its pyramid-shaped design and greatly simplifies that whole pain-in-the-ass PSP video transfer process. If they ever to bring onto the United States, it'll cost around $171. – Charlie White
VR-1000J, the Onkyo media recorder for PSP [Akihabara News]
Source: Gizmodo
20-Dec-06 19:07:00
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Video
It looks like Neuros is soon going to have to work a little harder to win over media-happy PSP users, with Onkyo announcing that it's about to bust out a standalone media recorder of its own. Like the Neuros recorder, Onkyo's Wavio VR-1000J doesn't have any internal storage, relying instead on Memory Sticks and SD Cards that you can pop directly into your PSP or other video-capable device. In addition to PSP compatible video, it'll also record in the 3GPP, 3GPP2, and ASF video formats, with three video quality settings for each to suit your needs (maxing out at 320x240, 30 fps, apparently not supporting the PSP's native widescreen resolution). On the audio front, you'll only get AAC, G.726, and AMR formats, making it bit less versatile than the Neuros all around, although it does have the whole pyramid thing going for it. Look for this one to hit Japan Decemeber 25th, coming in around the 20,000 Yen mark ($170US).
[Via Akihabara N...
It looks like Neuros is soon going to have to work a little harder to win over media-happy PSP users, with Onkyo announcing that it's about to bust out a standalone media recorder of its own. Like the Neuros recorder, Onkyo's Wavio VR-1000J doesn't have any internal storage, relying instead on Memory Sticks and SD Cards that you can pop directly into your PSP or other video-capable device. In addition to PSP compatible video, it'll also record in the 3GPP, 3GPP2, and ASF video formats, with three video quality settings for each to suit your needs (maxing out at 320x240, 30 fps, apparently not supporting the PSP's native widescreen resolution). On the audio front, you'll only get AAC, G.726, and AMR formats, making it bit less versatile than the Neuros all around, although it does have the whole pyramid thing going for it. Look for this one to hit Japan Decemeber 25th, coming in around the 20,000 Yen mark ($170US).
[Via Akihabara N...
Source: Engadget
18-Dec-06 21:45:00
Filed under: Gaming
Tilt sensing isn't quite the novelty it once was, with all these new-fangeled controllers and laptops flooding the market, but as much as the execution might lack, or our child-like joy wane, we've always got room for one more tilt-enabled doohickey at the Engadget HQ. This time around it's the Nintendo DS sporting the fancy functionality (again), via a homemade tilt sensor which plugs into that handy mini-USB port. Unfortunately for the bleeding edge types, the actual use of this thing is an exercise in frustration, since the control is merely digital -- full left or full right, none of those fancy degrees. Still, if your mom and her gal pals have commandeered your Wii for the afternoon, you've just gotta get some Nintendo-flavored tilt-sensing action on, and you can't find your Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble cartridge anywhere, then it sounds like this DS hack is the hack for you. Alternatively, you can apparently plug this thing into your PSP, but we don't hav...
Tilt sensing isn't quite the novelty it once was, with all these new-fangeled controllers and laptops flooding the market, but as much as the execution might lack, or our child-like joy wane, we've always got room for one more tilt-enabled doohickey at the Engadget HQ. This time around it's the Nintendo DS sporting the fancy functionality (again), via a homemade tilt sensor which plugs into that handy mini-USB port. Unfortunately for the bleeding edge types, the actual use of this thing is an exercise in frustration, since the control is merely digital -- full left or full right, none of those fancy degrees. Still, if your mom and her gal pals have commandeered your Wii for the afternoon, you've just gotta get some Nintendo-flavored tilt-sensing action on, and you can't find your Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble cartridge anywhere, then it sounds like this DS hack is the hack for you. Alternatively, you can apparently plug this thing into your PSP, but we don't hav...
Source: Engadget
18-Dec-06 18:55:07
Sony's UMD failures (we haven't seen any UMD news since July) don't necessarily mean that the PSP is a failure for movies. It just means people hate the UMD. Now Sony's in discussions with Amazon, Movielink, and CinemaNow in order to strike a deal for PSP movie downloads.
What do you think of this? We think that a rental service, where you can pay, say, $25 for an all-you-can-watch download scheme for your PSP would be great. People probably wouldn't' want to purchase a second version of Batman Begins just so they can watch it on their PSP when they can rip the DVD and shove it on a memory stick themselves. A concept which had a big part to do with why the UMDs failed. – Jason Chen
Sony to launch video download service for PlayStation Portable [ via Kotaku]
What do you think of this? We think that a rental service, where you can pay, say, $25 for an all-you-can-watch download scheme for your PSP would be great. People probably wouldn't' want to purchase a second version of Batman Begins just so they can watch it on their PSP when they can rip the DVD and shove it on a memory stick themselves. A concept which had a big part to do with why the UMDs failed. – Jason Chen
Sony to launch video download service for PlayStation Portable [ via Kotaku]
Source: Gizmodo
18-Dec-06 15:50:00
Filed under: Gaming, Portable Video
It really wouldn't be the shock of the century, since Sony's been rumored to be at least be working on PSP music downloads for a while now, but Financial Times is reporting that Sony now has some sort of PSP video download service in the works, and they pretty certain about it. The best news -- if this rumor pans out, that is -- is that Sony is apparently doing this thing in conjunction with other services such as Amazon's Unbox, Movielink and CinemaNow, instead of taking its usual proprietary path. The not-so-best news is that Sony purportedly won't be releasing a fancy new memory-enhanced PSP with the service, but instead hopes consumers will spring for a new 4GB+ Memory Stick to store the video. With supposed room for 10 flicks and accessibility for all current PSP users, it might not be the worst move ever for Sony, but that doesn't mean an 8GB flash-based PSP still wouldn't be the hawterness. Supposedly we should be expecting these ...
It really wouldn't be the shock of the century, since Sony's been rumored to be at least be working on PSP music downloads for a while now, but Financial Times is reporting that Sony now has some sort of PSP video download service in the works, and they pretty certain about it. The best news -- if this rumor pans out, that is -- is that Sony is apparently doing this thing in conjunction with other services such as Amazon's Unbox, Movielink and CinemaNow, instead of taking its usual proprietary path. The not-so-best news is that Sony purportedly won't be releasing a fancy new memory-enhanced PSP with the service, but instead hopes consumers will spring for a new 4GB+ Memory Stick to store the video. With supposed room for 10 flicks and accessibility for all current PSP users, it might not be the worst move ever for Sony, but that doesn't mean an 8GB flash-based PSP still wouldn't be the hawterness. Supposedly we should be expecting these ...
Source: Engadget
