IGN gets excited over playing MP3's

[MuGen]

Just so we're all clear, the PSP is a media handheld, so to call it solely a gaming handheld in comparison to the DS would be unjustified. Since SONY clearly stated it to be a multimedia handheld... it wouldn't be WRONG for them to have the extra features it has.

So why bust on the PSP because it plays mp3's and people get excited over it? Truth be told, I drive so.. i dont need an mp3 player..... the one thing I'm excited about is the UMD movies..

*orgasms over Final Fantasy Advent Children*

[Null]

Originally Posted by Kyuzo

Truth be told, I drive so.. i dont need an mp3 player.....

i need a mp3 player BECAUSE i drive. i have an indash 5disc cd changer, but it doesnt compare to having a few thousand songs from my ipod hooked up to my car stereo

[bobcat]

Originally Posted by Null

i need a mp3 player BECAUSE i drive. i have an indash 5disc cd changer, but it doesnt compare to having a few thousand songs from my ipod hooked up to my car stereo

True this.

I need to buy another iTrip. I had the iPod + iTrip in my pocket when I was drunk jumping on a swiss ball. The pin bent.

So heart breaking. Oh and I'll try replacing the battery then. Sweet!

[Canyarion]

Only no one will ever have something even close to 1000 songs on a PSP.

Remember that hybrids usually don't do that well.... But Sony can probably handle it.

edit: never-->ever

[Null]

Originally Posted by bobcat

True this.

I need to buy another iTrip. I had the iPod + iTrip in my pocket when I was drunk jumping on a swiss ball. The pin bent.

So heart breaking. Oh and I'll try replacing the battery then. Sweet!

itrip? no no my friend. you want... http://www.neocaraudio.com/prod-ion.html

hook it DIRECTLY up to your car stereo, and actually control the ipod with the buttons on the radio.

i dont have that yet but im planning on getting it. my car is suported on the list

Originally Posted by Canyarion

Only no one will never have something even close to 1000 songs on a PSP.

i wouldnt say never, how do you know no one will have that many songs on a psp? the memory sticks are just going to get bigger and bigger. i say eventually they will have one big enough to hold 1000, of course by then we'd already have 100 GB ipods.

[Xantar]

Originally Posted by Kyuzo

So why bust on the PSP because it plays mp3's and people get excited over it? Truth be told, I drive so.. i dont need an mp3 player..... the one thing I'm excited about is the UMD movies..

*orgasms over Final Fantasy Advent Children*

I hope you really like Advent Children, then, because it's likely to be the only movie released on PSP. Unless they release Digimon episodes as well. IGN may be a bunch of PSP fanboys, but even they don't get excited about UMD movies. Maybe they realize that it's going to be about the most anemic movie playback ever conceived.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Xantar

I hope you really like Advent Children, then, because it's likely to be the only movie released on PSP. Unless they release Digimon episodes as well. IGN may be a bunch of PSP fanboys, but even they don't get excited about UMD movies. Maybe they realize that it's going to be about the most anemic movie playback ever conceived.

indeed indeed.

now if they later on start selling blank umd discs and a umd burner, its an entirly different story.

[Perfect Stu]

how about them PSP GAMES?

after filming my trip to Las Vegas early next year, a PSP will be great to display pics and videos from the vacation, as well as play games (its main function) and MP3's without having to take my digital videocamera everywhere.

Now the DS may have OMG BETTER BATTERY LIFE AND NONE OF THAT EXTRA CRAP, and that's fine. the PSP's multimedia aspect appeals to me more...I'd be more willing to pay more money for the better screen, the better graphics and the extra functions.

Isnt that all there is to it? If the system appeals to you, talk about it. Share anticipation. People prancing into threads just to point out the shortcomings of this or that is getting tired and old.

[MuGen]

I agree... I simply said how UMD movies is exciting for me, and they simply shot that one down too.

But to give them all a blindshot Blu-Ray is working with Toshiba to release a UMD-R drive. Also.. My sister who just came from Japan told me she saw a poster for upcoming UMD releases for PSP:

House of Flying Daggers
FF7 Advent Children
Warriors of heaven and earth
Ace Venture Pet Detective
Bourne Supremecy

So... I highly doubt Advent Children will be the only UMD movie... but I have no doubt thats what nintendo fanatics hope.

[Xantar]

Waa waa waa...people are pointing out that the UMD format won't get a lot of support...damnit, they are so tiresome! We need enthusiasm! ENTHUSIASM!!!

Look, guys, if you enjoy it and want it, I'm not going to stop you. I'm not so self-centered that I want people to actually have a bad time and waste their money. But if you expect me to just not notice that Sony is trying to shovel a new format down our throats when a perfectly workable and widely accepted alternative already exists, you've got another thing coming.

Anyway, I could point out here that subtitles will get tiresome to read on the PSP's small screen which also incidentally has a lower resolution than a TV. But hey, maybe you'll like it. I could also point out that the prospect of seeing Ace Ventura several years after it's gone by and faded into pop culture history doesn't exactly light my viscera on fire. I guess that leaves The Bourne Supremacy which is a decent movie (if perhaps a little too shaky with the camera). Will it cause PSP movie playback functionality to skyrocket in popularity? Only time will tell, but I'm guessing not.

Now I exaggerated a little bit when I said that Advent Children will be the only movie released on UMD. I have no doubt that a few movies will come out on UMD initially. But it will also peter ou. Why should any production company put their movies on UMD format, which will reach an audience of maybe 5 million people within the next two or three years, when they can just put it out on DVD and reach hundreds of millions of people with DVD players? Yeah, the PSP is portable, but people don't watch full length movies on the go all that much. Those who do have portable DVD players of some sort (maybe in their laptops). Either that or they rent the DVD player (I've been saying rental stations at airports a lot lately). If you know anything at all about the electronics and media business, you know that UMD is just going to be a speed bump for DVD to roll over.

Now if you want to talk about the PSP games, I'm all for it. As Perfect Stu points out, that's what it was made to do. And if you want to talk about how you're excited about this or that new function, go right ahead. It's your opinion. I don't begrudge it. But in my opinion, PSP's multimedia functions suck. And I have no doubt that within five years, if the PSP makes it that far, people will just be talking about its games and nobody will care about its movie or mp3 playback. Kind of like nobody cares about GBA connectivity for the GameCube.

And hey, if you're tired of posts like these...well, don't read them.