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Gaming: PSP to support MP3
Posted on Sep 25, 2004 - 12:26 PM by zmcnulty
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This page proves it: http://www.playstation.jp/tgs2004/psp_spec.html

Since the UMD drive inside the PSP is read-only, we can assume that you won't be able to burn your own UMD discs using the PSP itself. I'm sure Sony hasn't got plans for a UMD burner, so to me, this announcement means you'll be playing MP3s off your Memory Stick Duo. Duo goes up to 1GB for the time being.

One more thing I just noticed is "region" is listed under "access controls." Well shit, this means we won't be playing imported games, I think.




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]grimm[
25.09.04, 13:05 		Hmm...I can't dig up the link, but I'm almost certain that IGN or Gamespot or someone reported that Kutaragi said that the PSP would be able to write to UMD disks, but that the feature would remain unusable until later in the future when Sony worked out better protection for the system and companies showed that they had compelling reasons to use the functionality.
]grimm[
25.09.04, 13:35 		http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/09/21/news_6108039.html



"When asked if the PSP will be able to record data on the UMD, Kutaragi confirmed that Sony doesn't have any plans to allow users to do so, at least in the early years after the machine's release.



'We're seeing the UMD as a medium for software distribution, so it should be good enough to just release it [without recording capabilities],' Kutaragi said to the press assembled at the conference. 'But if the market starts to get stabilized and things are going well, there might be [game] companies that want to take advantage of UMD recording capabilities in their games. If that happens, we'll have to discuss with the companies about what kind of recording format to use, whether to add on stronger copy protection, or to even to make it into an international standard.'"
zmcnulty
25.09.04, 14:11 		Kickin, thanks for the links grimm.



1.8GB of MP3s on a disc as small as UMD would be good times. On the link in the initial post, however, the UMD drive is listed as being "read-only," so that's why I posted what I did. If Ken wants to give gamers the ability to write to the disks themselves, they're going to need to get a hardware upgrade.