The Sony PSP was originally developed for playing cutting edge video games.
This is what the PSP can do best. It has got superb display and sound quality
and a media called UMD (Universal Media Disc) for mass storage.
But besides playing games the developers had another cool application for
the console in mind: Watching movies and video clips. The display of the PSP
has the perfect 'wide-screen' format to display current movies in their full wide-
screen format. It turns out that the resolution of the PSP display is able to
render movies in a quality that you normally wouldn't expect from a small
device like this.
If you have even been on a flight were people left and right of you just watch
the board movie you know how it is if you take you PSP and watch your
favorite Star Trek episode. You know how good it feels to get all these envious
looks. Some people may pretend they are not watching - others will openly
ask you: 'Hey, I didn't know you could watch movies like that with a PSP - I
bought this for my son but I thought it was just for video games.' So many
times I have heard this or a similar statement.
In general people are surprised by the quality of the image displayed by the
PSP. If you hold the PSP in your hand you get a sufficient details level to enjoy
an entire movie.
There are two ways to watch movies on your PSP: One is to buy movies on
UMDs. These are available in most electronic shops where they sell PSP
games. The discs are even smaller than the old mini-CDs that the record
industry tried to establish.
However, you cannot buy all movies on UMD. Especially TV-series are not
usually found on UMDs. Also, if you already have your favorite movies at
home on a DVD you don't want to buy them again. Especially since the price
of a UMD can be even higher than the DVD.
The second option that is very trendy right now is to download PSP movies
from the net or convert your existing DVDs and transfer the movie to the PSP.
Unfortunately UMDs are not writable so the only place where you can store a
movie on a PSP is the memory stick. The memory stick was designed to hold
saved games, but Sony quickly realized that people wanted to put all kinds of
things on the PSP like music and videos. So now memory sticks with 1GB or
more are easily available and affordable.
For watching movie you should have a memory stick of at least 1GB. Anything
smaller will not give you're the full length or quality for a movie.
Fortunately there is software available that automatically converts a DVD into
the right format and transfers it to the DVD.
For
PSP movie downloads simply go to http://www.squidoo.com/download-psp-movies-easily and follow the instructions on that page.
