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PSPCasting

Posted by Hemos on from the leaving-post-it-notes:-postitcasting? dept.

ChipGuy writes "Om Malik points out the launch of Sony PSP in US could actually turn Sony's fortunes around and thinks that new unqiue applications like Sajeeth Cherian's latest software, PSP Video 9, might be the real reason. Cherian created Videora bit torrent client's new hack, PSP Video 9. It takes any video and turns it into a format that PSP can read. So now you can download videos using Videora, and then convert them to PSP friendly format within a few seconds.He calls this PSP casting."

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  1. Casting? by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 5, Funny
    He calls this PSP casting.
    Is 'casting' the new hip catch-all phrase, after being made popular by the term 'pod-casting'?

    Next: 'Blogcasting' (reading your fave blog on your cellphone), 'bookcasting' (Ebooks on your PSP), and so on.
    --
    If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
  2. Definition by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    castcasting (vb.) - The act of taking a word or acronym and appending "cast" or "casting" to the end to make it sound up-to-date and cool. See also "gategating".

  3. Mobile Cinema by LittleGuernica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mobile Cinema isn't going to work, I don't want to sound like Steve Jobs, but watching Jack Bauer say "Dammit" on a 4,5" screen is not quite as good as on a HDTV plasma(or something more modest), even though the screen is fabulous..

    Ofcourse as a PornStation Portable it will do just fine..

  4. Re:PSP video format by sh00z · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm not sure what you mean by "proprietary" in this case, as the PSP uses MPEG-4, which is No more proprietary than MPEG-2, your counter-example.

  5. Doesn't make sense for the US by earthbound+kid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The only time portable video is useful is when you're away from home/your computer and you're not walking, driving, or otherwise in control of your motion. Obviously, by this set of criteria it makes sense to watch portable video on a train or bus, but since the average American is either driving, walking, or biking to and from home (a place with existing video sources) to work (a place with computers), it doesn't seem like there's much of a need for portable video. Now, I will say there are some places where portable video make sense-- like on a commuter train in Japan. I saw a guy watching TV on his phone just yesterday and thought, "Wow, that's pretty cool." But when does the average American ever have an opportunity to sit around like that while someone else is steering the vehicle? You can slap portable video onto a product people are already going to buy, like a cellphone, as an optional feature, but it doesn't make sense to make portable video the centerpiece of any technology destined for the US market.

    I'm with Steve Jobs on this one-- there's no real demand for portable video in the US.