Oh, and they can’t just be any old kind of MP4s, they have to have a special header that Sony created. Please also be aware that for video playback, you must convert everything to MP4 files. Oh, and if you were one of the five people on Earth who actually owned a Sony memory stick in the past, please be advised that the PSP only uses special new memory sticks that will run you an extra hundred dollars if you want any real capacity. Furthermore, forget about putting ROMs or third-party games on your memory stick despite the fact that the PSP?s own menus say that you can. Will there be other products in the future that can play UMDs? Maybe, but they will all be made by Sony. Obsessed right now with digital rights management and piracy, Sony has made it very clear that no one will ever be allowed to make their own UMDs. Too bad you will never, ever, ever be allowed to buy a UMD burner. As portable video files become ever more prevalent and more compressed there really is a clamor for a minidisc format halfway between the CD and the DVD.
It’s a real shame, then, that the system already has three strikes against it:
The PSP could be the thing that keeps Sony afloat into the next round of console wars. Just to stay competitive Sony needs a hit right now. In the current generation of consoles, Sony has been losing out to Microsoft at every turn – most games are available for both systems now, and they’re always slightly better on the Xbox. The PS3 isn’t ready yet… even as the Xbox 360 is about to get licked on MTV by Ashton Kucher. It isn’t just the handheld market Sony needs to beat here, though.
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