PSP

Thursday March 24th 2005 03:55 PM PST

I got my ass out of bed at 5AM today. I said goodbye to my wife and headed to the Target in Alhambra. The sun was not yet up, as i pulled into the parking lot. I was not the first car in the lot. One other person was already waiting at about 5:30. We both sat in our cars for another 20 minutes before other started to show up. I put my but down on the sidewalk and sat for 2 and a half hours waiting for the doors to open. Right before they opened, a target rep came out and gave us each a PSP coupon. She counted out exactly 40 and sent the rest of the people in line packin. Once you had a coupon, you didn't need to worry about what place you were in line. Still people ran through the store to get to the electronics area. I took my time to check out the games and didn't get too worried about waiting.

So that was the first PSP i picked up today.

I jumped in my car at about 8:30 and headed to work. Perfect time, cause that's usually when i leave for work. When i got to work, i quickly unwrapped the unit and started to look at all the goodies. Keegs showed up with his PSP and we both jumped into a few WiFi multiplayer matches of wipeout pure. We drew enough attention that everybody else in the department wanted to get one. So Keegs, Joey and I ran back out to see if we could pick up a few more. We got to ToysRUs and grabbed 3 more. Then to Target and we grabbed 3 more. Back to the office quickly and distributed our newly acquired toys. We didn't mark up any prices, just sold at the retail price to people in the office.

So now we've got multiplayer matches of a bunch of different games, and i've been playing with all the photo, music and video options on the PSP. So got everything working, now gotta get back to work.

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"I've got a bad feeling about this." - Princess Leia

Betamax...Minidisc...Divx...UMD.

Posted by: Yams

Yams could be correct on this...but of course I bought one as well. I think there's a fortune to be made for whoever can invent some kind of mounting device, so I can secure my PSP right to my dashboard. Think any drivers will care if I watch Spiderman 2 while I sit in traffic?

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It'll probably be successful as a Gameboy-type portable video game system, but I just don't see how it could have a future as a movie player. If you can't export the video to a bigger screen, and it won't play the DVDs you already have, are people really going to buy movies that will ONLY play on that little screen? On top of that it's much more compressed video than even the earliest DVDs were (although I guess on a 4" screen, who can tell the difference?). Talk about a format that's dead before it even hits the shelves. If you're looking for a portable movie player, get a laptop or a portable DVD player.

Also, is there a more incorrectly named product out there than UMDs?

Universal* Media Disc

*Will only play on Sony PSPs

That's like a goof disclaimer from a Simpsons episode or something.

Posted by: Yams

wtf are people doing watching movies while driving anyways? this is just getting ricockulous. i totaly get the it's my media, i should have it wherever i want thing... but still. there's a time and place for everything, and movies should be on a goddamn plane or at home, and that's it. i really don't want to watch a movie on a 3x3 screen with headphones when i can kick it at home with surround and a big screen.

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