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Sony Adds RSS Support to PSP
An anonymous reader writes "Spotted at MEMAP.ORG: 'Sony has quietly released a new firmware upgrade (version 2.60) that adds WMA audio support, improvements to the web browser, a new RSS Channel menu item and support for streaming audio and video.'" GamesIndustry.biz also reports on the new features.
Is there anything else they added that they didn't mention because it wouldn't be considered much of an "upgrade"?
I love RSS feeds, got about 20 of them on my Google Personalized Home. Maybe I should go pick up a PSP now, hmm. RSS is one of the cooler "web content" things I have seen in quite a while.
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You'll lose your ability to install homebrew games! You can read your RSS feeds anyway using sup.er.fl.uous on the web.
Wake me when Sony have released a firmware that lets me run my emulators and homebrew games. Until then I'll happily carry on using firmware 1.0 on my PSP and just buying games for my DS instead.
Why should I care? I have a computer for web-browsing, a iPod for music, and that same computer for RSS support. I'll get the upgrade when it is forced on me by some game.
How about fixing what I see as the PSP's biggest problem (that can be fixed with firmware): WPA SUPPORT. Why can't it support WPA? It can! I don't see why it shouldn't be able to. Why should I have to run WEP? This is the same complaint I have with Nintendo and the DS.
WPA has been out for years, why won't you let me USE it game companies?
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You sure we're talking about "rootkit" $ony here?
- I voted for Nintendo and against Bush
So, I have to decide whether or not I want to upgrade my firmware to play the latest Need for Speed/GTA retread, or keep my homebrew so I can play Super Metroid, FFVI, Afterburner, Sonic, Altered Beast, Super Mario Brothers 3, Castlevania 3, Bionic Commando, Zelda, Super Mario Kart, Madden '94, or other classic titles?
Well, hmm.
And you say my trade off is lack of RSS, Web Browsing, and the ability to customize my background by going with 1.5?
Gosh, it's so hard to choose.
Sony, how about we stop this stupid cat and mouse game and let us have the emulators? No one's going to care. You don't see Dell suing someone because they wrote a program that runs on it's software and hardware. And for every version you release, people just keep breaking the code. Whether it's outright flawed or using a misnamed picture file, people are going to beat your code to the point that if they can't break it any more, they'll find a way to replace it outright with their own and modify it however they want. Now, how would that sit with you? If someone came out with a rewritten Firmware that could properly replicate all your code, minus the restrictions you moronically impose, I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. I'd still continue to buy your games, and support your system, and you'd have a loyal customer all the way to the bank.
Without it, my SNES emulator will not work.
We're not buying anything from SONY ever again.
Read the EULA carefully. The real story here is that if you accept the EULA, Sony reserves the right to scan you PSP for copyright infringement. In the same EULA they state that no personal information is transfered. OK. Question: Who sent in their registration cards?
And quite ironically, it doesn't play DRM'ed WMA!
So, how many of you made the jump and turned your expensive gameboys into expensive iPod shuffles?
Which is the best tradeoff, homebrew of GTA?
Considering that they're everyone's favorite sell-at-a-loss-and-make-it-up-with-game-sales business model, giving you the ability to get games for free off the internet is pretty counter productive
Then why can't Sony sell copies of a PSP hypervisor that boots Linux from a Memory Stick PRO Duo card for the approximate price that it would take to break even on a PSP? Sony successfully used this business model for a Linux kit on the old PS2.
Unless some great killer App comes out that requires this firmware
You mean like re-pressings of just about every popular PSP game?
And if you want to play MAME?
What makes people think that Gridlee, Poly-Play, and Robby Roto are reason enough to stay on old firmware?
plz tell me i would like to play it 1ce more for old times sake :*(