December 31, 2005

PlayStation graffiti ads drama

Last night, while strolling through Christopher in New York, I came across some slutty ads for Sony's Playstation Portable, AKA the PSP.

The black-on-white graffiti shows cartoon characters riding the Playstation like a skateboard, licking it like a lollipop or cranking it like a Jack-in-the-box.

Like Sony, I thought it was pretty cool, others disagree

More PSP ad drama

December 23, 2005

Sony PSP or PlayStation Portable on track to ship 6 million in North America

Sony Computer Entertainment America is on track to accomplish their goal of six million PlayStation Portable units shipped to retailers in North America by the end of the year.

Back in October, SCEA boss Kaz Hirai predicted that the firm would reach six million units by the start of 2006; at that point, Sony had recently announced hitting 4.47 million units shipped in North America, as part of 10 million units shipped worldwide.

Speaking to Reuters this week, Sony spokesperson Molly Smith said that "we're mapping to that forecast... We're very comfortable with where we are," but did not clarify what, exactly, the forecast called for.

December 10, 2005

Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder 2 records video to PSP

The Neuros MPEG-4 Recorder is a digital VCR for the portable video age. Instead of buying proprietary UMD discs at $20 each from a limited catalog, now you can create open digital video files from all your content that you can use on all your devices anywhere you want. Your PSP™ now has access to the world’s full catalog of video titles.

The MPEG-4 Recorder is like an easy-to-use, free-standing VCR that records onto digital memory cards instead of VHS tapes so that the video is playable directly on the PSP™ or other handheld devices

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December 5, 2005

Sony launches Portable TV network for PSP

Sony, Japan has announced the launch of a new Portable TV Rental service for owners of the Sony PSP in Japan. The steamy service is aimed at expanding the reach of the Sony Playstation Portable.

The Play Station Portable features a 4.3-inch 16:9 widescreen LCD TFT screen with a 480x272 resolution, button layout similar to the PlayStation with a digital control pad, an analog stick, circle, square, triangle, x, and 2 shoulder buttons, supports a Wi-Fi wireless connectivity that allows up to 16 PSPs to play together and uses a new, Sony-developed optical media called the Universal Media Disc (UMD), which offers game software, full-motion video and other digital content

Through the use of WiFi support within the PSP, users can now purchase and download video content from Sony's Portable TV network and store them onto their Memory Sticks reports Mobile Whack

Users will be able to download TV shows, music videos, trailers, and other video programming from Sony's website at a cost of $1 - $3 dollars each. The content will be usable for 1 - 2 weeks and then the videos can no longer be viewed.

The initial video lineup includes popular anime shows like Mobile Suit Gundam, and Noein, and Private Princess: Ayase Haruka.