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Sony's attempt to remove portability from the PSP

Category: Sony PSP, Posted: 04/29/2008 at 04:59PM CDT by Creighton DeSimone, Staff Writer

the future Great Scott! Another peripheral for the PSP that completely ignores what the last P stands for. It's portable for those playing the home game. In Japan, the land of the rising amounts of tecno-stuff, Sony has released a special kind of cradle for the PSP.

It's the kind of cradle you can set on your desk so you can watch movies. No longer will you be hampered with holding the PSP while you watch that free UMD of Family Guy you got with your Daxter bundle, or Lords of Dogtown if you can even remember those dark times.

This cradle/docking station does more than just hold up your PSP, it also comes with a remote, allowing you to control the Cross Media Bar from a great distance. How great? Well, the screen on the PSP is only 3.5 inches, so really the remote doesn't even have to work at farther than 4 feet. But honestly, at 4 feet couldn't you just reach out and use the PSP?

Does anyone even watch movies on their PSP? Everywhere I could possibly think of watching a movie there is either a television or a computer. Both of which have screens far larger than the PSP. Maybe on an airplane? There's a good idea. Sony should advertise this in the SkyMall. There's your target market right there: the frequent flyer.

To be honest the only dock and remote I plan on purchasing is Doc and his remote controlled DeLorean once they're released on high def. Those movies are fantastic. Oooh! Maybe Sony could bundle Back to the Future with the docking station. Call it The Dock + Doc Bundle. Someone get Japan on the wire, this is going to be huge...

[via PSP fanboy]

Posted by JSnake on 04/29/2008 at 05:28PM

GREAT SCOTT, WE'VE BEEN HURTLED INTO THE FUTURE AND NOW WE MUST FACE THIS INVINCIBLE BEAST OF TOMORROW!

Posted by lskennedy on 04/29/2008 at 05:28PM

Funny sh*t creighton

Posted by Quasar on 04/29/2008 at 05:46PM

This makes as much sense as a three dollar bill. Sony, try improving the PSP instead of selling dumb stuff.

Posted by Mercer on 04/29/2008 at 06:40PM

I ended up with a stand, but it was from my folks so they didn't know. I have ONE movie I bought because I was curious but it really sucks watching on a small screen..

Posted by El on 04/29/2008 at 07:23PM

I watch movies from my iPhone, but not often.

Posted by Tankcommander on 04/30/2008 at 07:26AM

"How great? Well, the screen on the PSP is only 3.5 inches, so really the remote doesn't even have to work at farther than 4 feet. But honestly, at 4 feet couldn't you just reach out and use the PSP?"

I lol'd

Posted by tigger on 04/30/2008 at 05:22PM

i watch movies on the 2.5 inch screen on my mp3 player all the time, with headphones in its a great way to waste time on a long journey or w/e. The small screen doesn't actually take much away from it at all.

(plus, you'd be surprised how much detail is kept at 320x240, i can watch that resolution of movie on my 19inch monitor from like, a metre and a half away and it looks almost exactly the same as full dvd-def.

Posted by lskennedy on 04/30/2008 at 08:27PM

I put a movie on my 3.2 in. mp4 player, and it was perfect, it was cloverfield, god i love that movie.