A questionable purchase.
Apr. 4th, 2007 04:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I was so bored with S.S.D.D. that I bought myself a Playstation Portable (a PSP). Origionally, I was going to slap music and movies on it with a 2 Gig Memory Stick Pro Duo. Forget games.
How wrong I was.
Music is no problem, as long as it's MP3 or AAC format. It's the video -- which requires you to use a specalized version of h264 that dependent on what firmware you have (I upgraded to 3.30) will have you switching setting on your encoder for a full day and a half.
Ugh. I want a media player that's 480x272, plays Ogg Vorbis files and any AVI I can throw at it (and then some). The PSP ain't it. It's a game machine that can play specialty formatted media. Plus, I got it for $200, a full day before Sony dropped the price to $170. The media card's $60 from Office Depot, a 2 gig Memory Stick Pro Duo that doesn't like anything but the PSP.
So I'm basically teh ded. I bought crap and paid a heavy price for it. I'm very tempted to sell it now, and likely recoup half my losses.
Anyone want a PSP?
How wrong I was.
Music is no problem, as long as it's MP3 or AAC format. It's the video -- which requires you to use a specalized version of h264 that dependent on what firmware you have (I upgraded to 3.30) will have you switching setting on your encoder for a full day and a half.
Ugh. I want a media player that's 480x272, plays Ogg Vorbis files and any AVI I can throw at it (and then some). The PSP ain't it. It's a game machine that can play specialty formatted media. Plus, I got it for $200, a full day before Sony dropped the price to $170. The media card's $60 from Office Depot, a 2 gig Memory Stick Pro Duo that doesn't like anything but the PSP.
So I'm basically teh ded. I bought crap and paid a heavy price for it. I'm very tempted to sell it now, and likely recoup half my losses.
Anyone want a PSP?
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Date: 2007-04-04 10:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-05 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-05 02:26 am (UTC)I DO know that there is an add-on you can pick up for the DS that turns it into a media center. Though I"m not sure what it plays.
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Date: 2007-04-06 06:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-04-05 08:23 pm (UTC)The machine you really want would probably be a GP2X. Dual core linux for about $180. "Video Playback of MPEG, MPEG4, AVI, DivX 3.11,4x,5x and Higher, XVid, WMV(7,8,9 Later On) Playback and more
Audio file MP3,OGG,WMA(Later On)"
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Date: 2007-04-08 09:43 am (UTC)