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November 15, 2005
the undocumented portable video economy.
I ran into two high school kids watching 50 Cent and old Jay-Z music videos on a PSP last night. I told them I could never find any good video for my PSP and asked them where they got theirs. "On a bulletin board," they said. They get a lot of video that way. Music videos, TV shows, viral video... not a lot of movies, though. Why's that? Because DVDs are better on a big screen.
How do the music videos end up on PSPs? Other people take them off of television, transcode them to PSP-compatible (MP4) format, zip them up and post them to file hosting sites, then link to it on the bulletin boards they hang out on. Anyone who doesn't know how to get the video onto their PSP can search the board or read the FAQ. Nice.
Posted by yatta at November 15, 2005 11:27 PM
Comments
Wonderful work. My PSP is more than just a gaming device. Couple a PSP with a big portable hard drive w/ USB client recognization, and you can carry tons of videos, DVD-rips, and the like around with ya. Sin City's on my PSP now, and not the UMD version. Around a 800MB conversion for me.
As for today, enjoying the fact I was able to fit Episode 3 onto my Motorola e815, with decent video and audio, for around 130MB - gotta love transflash cards!
DJ Messiah
Posted by: DJ Messiah at November 16, 2005 10:53 AM