PSP Fun...

Been playing with my new PSP...great little gadget... Granted, I only have two at the moment, but the games are great. Need For Speed: Most Wanted is a pretty frenetic race through the streets trying to avoid the cops. I gotta unlock better cars though... Got the music and pics loaded on too, but the video is the tricky part. Sony, in all their wisdom decided to make up some kind of archaic filename routine and only play vids in MP4, so a lot of converting and such is required to get vids over to the memory card, but once there, they play great. Downloaded the free PSP Video 9, and that pretty much solves the conversion issue. It also allows you to edit the naming of the file and pick the thumbnail pic. Much better than what Sony will let you do. I guess they wanted people to get ripped off buying 20 dollar UMD movies (with no extras) instead of ripping flicks to the memory card. Hmmm, and I wonder why UMD movies are a dying media with studios pulling support... I don't have a WI-FI connection at home, but the PSP does, so I can supposedly surf the 'net with the thing too. And with a tonne of homebrew applications out there, it really is a powerful little portable gaming machine and more. Sure, it's a little on the big side for extreme portability (if you only want music, get an MP3 player), but as an all in one, it's better than lugging around a laptop...