I accually bought one of these and yes, the AC97 codec chip manages the impossible of both sucking and blowing at the same time, however, when i put a SB audigy in there with kx drivers... wow, all the tube warmth that no digital modeling can ever reproduce...
well, writers are availible but the psp includes a hdd so pirated games will exist, as for cost, retooling factories to produce a new format is EXTREAMLY expensive and Hi-MD's arn't that bad, 20 retail so ~1.50USD for sony to produce them.
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I accually bought one of these and yes, the AC97 codec chip manages the impossible of both sucking and blowing at the same time, however, when i put a SB audigy in there with kx drivers... wow, all the tube warmth that no digital modeling can ever reproduce...
well, writers are availible but the psp includes a hdd so pirated games will exist, as for cost, retooling factories to produce a new format is EXTREAMLY expensive and Hi-MD's arn't that bad, 20 retail so ~1.50USD for sony to produce them.
why not just use their existing Hi-MD format?? each disc holds about 950mb and they're already tooled to manufacture the disc...