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PSP Hardware Review Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-that's-some-strange-gadgetry dept.

Busshy writes "DCEmu have opened a new dedicated PSP review website featuring over 40 unbiased reviews of PSP accessories including Neuros MPEG4 Recorder 2, Neo-PSP Pad 8in1 & Intec Sound System."

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  1. Apparently no one cares? by painQuin · · Score: 2, Insightful

    About sony anymore?

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    1. Re:Apparently no one cares? by legallyillegal · · Score: 2, Insightful

      that, or they're trying to get their SONY-BMG music cds to work and have no time to get their PSP to work

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    2. Re:Apparently no one cares? by PatboyX · · Score: 2, Informative

      i just rifled through about a dozen reviews randomly and they all seem to be 7+. in fact, most of the ones i click on are excellent ratings...and poorly written. really poorly written. with some of the price tags for these items, im not sure i would trust it. which doesnt even address the obvious concern that anyone who upfront claims to be unbiased before an accusation already makes me nervous.
      now that i think about it the claim of "no bias" appears to be the only well-editorialized piece of information connected to this site.

  2. bah by Turn-X+Alphonse · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Reads just like a google text ad.. How.. strange.

    Come on Taco, you know as well as I do this is a worthless advertisement at best.

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    1. Re:bah by woolio · · Score: 2, Informative

      Come on Taco, you know as well as I do this is a worthless advertisement at best.

      You must be new around here...

      Taco likes posting articles that will either generate ad revenue (imflammatory articles generate lots of page views, or ones that are flat-out ads [kickback??])

      I wonder what Taco's cut is...

  3. Unbiased? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    40 unbiased reviews of PSP accessories

    An unbiased review, even if possible, is worthless since the whole point is to give an opinion. The important thing is to find a reviewer with similar biases to your own. One without biases doesn't bring any opinions of his own to the table so is limited to regurgitating stats.

    1. Re:Unbiased? by jbrader · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think the idea is that the reviewer starts out with no bias and then develops one based on the actual merits or flaws of the product. Rather than writing the article based on existing (fanboy) bias.

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    2. Re:Unbiased? by Peyna · · Score: 2, Insightful

      An unbiased review, even if possible, is worthless since the whole point is to give an opinion. The important thing is to find a reviewer with similar biases to your own. One without biases doesn't bring any opinions of his own to the table so is limited to regurgitating stats.

      There is different between being biased in your reporting and forming an opinion based upon results.

      A reviewer with bias would already been leaning toward preferring a certain result before even looking at anything.

      A reviewer without bias would start everything on the same level and work from there.

      Just because one starts with bias and one starts without, doesn't mean that the latter won't come to form an opinion.

      I think you've confused "bias" with "opinion." "Bias" is something you have before you even know the facts. "Opinion" is something you form based upon facts that you are aware of.

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  4. PSP World by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    PSP World has more reviews than this site and has been do so for a lot longer.

    http://www.pspworld.com/

  5. Re:Uh... What do you call that? by humble.fool · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just plain "Whore"?

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  6. tag slashvertisement tag filler tag remove by ziggy+the+zagnut · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I'm a hardcore PSP fanboy and developer (see PSPKick.com) and even i think this is out of place here.

    How about some stories about trying to get linux onto PSP? still doesn't work in pure form. efforts are being made to write directly to the flash on the mobo, but the DRM has so many layers, no one has been able to boot arbitrary code. There's so much more story there and prophecy of what's to come with DRM than in a bunch of screen protectors and junk that all PSP fans already know about anyway.

    And yes, it's obvious that typical linux would be kind of pointless b/c there's no (non-virtual) keybd on PSP, however, linux would be a LOT better for developers because of the PSPs tendency to crash often. Also, it would be much more convenient to have DHCP code used for homebrew (currently only static IPs are available for homebrew).

    While we're at it, can anyone comment on implementing DHCP? thanks.

    While I'm at it, the product list they review isn't even close to complete. They only represent about 1/3rd of what you can get in terms of ntsc converters, carrying cases, etc. it doesn't even include the talkman, the socom headset, blah blah blah. definitely a work in progress.

  7. Re:PSP Reviews I would like to read... by KDR_11k · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Knock yourself out.

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  8. Uh? by NVP_Radical_Dreamer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Maybe I'm way off, but does the psp REALLY have so many accessories that it needs a website dedicated to reviewing them? Also, is this really news?

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