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Well then you're not using it right. Try PSP Video 9. Rather than buy/rent UMD's (dumb format) you can watch downloaded movies and tv on it. Also check out this cool charger grip. It has a built in battery and tricks the PSP into thinking it's running on AC power so you can run it on the brightest contrast level. While I think the DS is cool, I love my PSP. The graphics are great, there are several "Great" games and quite a few decent games. Just rent, don't buy.

You do realize that you can create a personal use copy of a movie that you own or for that matter, any video and watch it on your PSP using a 1GB memory stick? Check out http://www.pspvideo9.com/

While accepting that there's no good reason except pushing the UMD format for crippling the video, there's plenty of good software out there to convert from DVD to a format suitable (and eminently watchable) for the PSP. Sounds like you need DVD Decrypter and PSP Video 9. These might help: http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/dvd_to_ps p.html http://www.pspvideo9.com/ I live in a country that allows me to view the video as I please, having bought a copy of it. Just make sure you do to... (And yes, I advocate emigrating)

I do use Linux at home, but the wifey uses XP at home and I found it easier to use PSP Video 9 then to use the CVS version of ffmpeg.

I can't remember the specific settings I used for Office Space (and I'm at work right now) but it takes up about 450mb out of the 1GB and it looks great.

not all the games suck. just do a little research before you plunk down your money. i recommend lumines and wipeout pure. two AAA quality titles. metal gear acid is good too, but was a lil too involved for me at the time, so i never got into it. its still in its infancy stage, so dont expect god of war on the psp just yet.

one thing i dont see ever praised about the psp is its ability to add content. i guess its always overshadowed by the homebrew explosion, but its something only pc and a few xbox games have taken advantage of. you can add your own music to games, and download expansion packs via internet or usb. a really revolutionary concept for a handheld, and something that needs to become standard in the console market. in theory, since you arent altering the content of the product, developers could release a devkit [for their game] and let users create their own mods [maps, skins, tracks, dungeons, etc...]

converting video on the psp is a breeze surprisingly. at first the tutorials make it seem like such a burden, but once you try it, its relatively simple. mainly you just need to make a folder and a subfolder in the root directory of your memory stick, download and install pspvideo9 http://www.pspvideo9.com/ and youre in business.

you just set it up to with your default video preferences [resolution/frame rate/ sound settings / etc] tell it where you want to store your movies, and the drive your psp connects as, and youre in business. it can queue jobs for you, so you can walk off while it does its business and have it process a whole slew of files for you.

when youre ready to go, you can just press sync, and it will transfer all [or some] of the files over for you. its all a breeze. it has a display for you so that you can see how the space on your memory stick is being used [how much is free, how much space is taken by game saves or music or video] it also has a size calculator so you can alter settings accordingly for a movie if you want a smaller filesize. its not perfect, but all around its a great program.

i wonder when they will rerelease it so that it can utilize some of the newer 2.0 mp4 formats?

PSP Video 9 to be precise. This is a video conversion in which avi, mpeg, etc. can be converted for viewing on a Playstation Portable gaming system

http://www.pspvideo9.com/

A google got me this. PSP Video 9.

I'm already watching most of my TV on the subway on my way to work using my PSP. MythTV records what I want and then I use PSPvideo9 with avisynth to transcode with just a few mouse clicks.

I'm an early adopter of the iPod, and I can't imagine how I got through the first 29 years of my life without one. I've supplanted my everday use of my 15GB 3G iPod with my Shuffle, which provides the soundtrack to 50% of my PSP usage (games). The other 50% of my PSP usage is for movies, and I've been using my PSP to watch a host of MP4s in the past several weeks with round-trip travels from East Coast to West Coast. When I get tired of playing Lumines, I've been watching Ali G, Lewis Black, Chapelle Show -- you'd be amazed how much you can fit on a 512MB Memory Stick when you compress video down to 15fps. The quality still remains remarkably nice on the PSP. I use PSP Video 9 (http://www.pspvideo9.com/) to encode my video files and it's awesome.

The PSP has a built in flash memory slot which can be used for many things, among them storage of movie and music files for PSP's built in mp3 and video player..

There's already a program which can convert your standard 700MB 1 CD MPEG 4 (dvix/xvid/what have you) full DVD ripped movie to the PSP compliant standard, given that you can get your hands on a compatible 1GB memory stick.

That alone is enough to convince me, but it's not like it stops there... there have already been several slashdot stories covering recent hacks, and one gets the impression that they've only just begun to unlock what the PSP is capable of.

PSPVideo9 converts any kind of video file to PSP format, making it a great dual purpose device.

Hacked firmware? I think not.