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Time to get those Blu-Ray goodies on the road!

January 07, 2008 in News comments 14

Thought that PSP Movies are dead and gone with the UMD format? Wrong! Sony says that future Blu-Ray movies will have a function to copy the movie to a PSP. Of course, the movie will be of lower quality than the BD, but what else did you expect?

Sony announced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show that future Blu-ray titles will contain a portable copy of the movie / show embedded on the disc encoded specifically for the PlayStation Portable.

Consumers will able to boot up their PlayStation 3, pop in a Blu-ray disc, then simply transfer the portable copy onto their PS3. From there, PSP owners can beam the portable copy over to their handheld device.
StarJet via exophase.com »
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  • 2
    Guticb Jan 7, 08
    I'm REALLY looking forward to this feature.
    • 2
      Storm Jan 7, 08
      So am I! ^^ That's great, and just in time, too, once I get myself a PSP in the coming months, that is. Great feature, gotta admit.
  • 0
    Coi Cki Jan 7, 08
    Excellent!! Can't wait! I've been waiting for something like this for a while, and now, it's coming.
  • -1
    StarJet Jan 7, 08
    *sigh* Wish I had a PS3. I'm too poor to have one. :'(
  • 1
    iLLmatic Jan 7, 08
    The first thing that comes to mind is file size.
  • -1
    Twin_Master Jan 7, 08
    What? That means rip the movie to the memory stick?
  • 0
    Mnmfan Jan 7, 08
    So let me get this straight. We could rent a BD then copy it to our HDD?? The PSP format will probably be MP4 which the PS3 can also play so what's to stop people without a PSP to just copy the film onto their PS3??
    • -1
      StarJet Jan 7, 08
      That would be piracy, I believe, but yes. It's possible.
  • 0
    shaka Jan 8, 08
    Nice, i hope the quality is top notch because when i used UMD movies on my PSP they look really good and when i try to rip some dvds to the MS the quality just isnt great.
  • -1
    The Power Jan 8, 08
    This is a great feature to be honest. Only question is will it take up a lot of memory or not?

    I think it will be good but honest opinion as well is on a PSP who is going to notice the difference between normal and Blu-ray on a small screen like a PSP.?? Still a good idea.
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    X_MANBEARPIG_X Jan 8, 08
    Does this just mean that we will be able to play the movie through remote play? Cos if thats the case, it's not really anything special as I would rather just watch it on tv. Unless i've missed something here..
  • 0
    Sayyed Jan 8, 08
    No from what I got you get to save the the movie on the psp.

    This is almost just asking for people to pirate movies.
  • 0
    Shadow of Death Jan 8, 08
    There will probably be som copy protectin (which PSP hackers will probably break in less than a week or something)....
  • 0
    Subzer0 Jan 9, 08
    Won't this cause some problems. Still a neat feature though.

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