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CES 2008: Sony touts BD Live - Blu-ray transfers from PS3 to PSP |
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The next generation of portable cinema viewing has just been demoed to the public at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), and surprisingly it's stemming from Sony's camp. Samples of Blu-ray movies were successfully copied from a Sony PlayStation 3 Blu-ray drive to a Sony PlayStation Portable's memory stick, as part of Sony's new gig known as BD Live.
BD Live web-oriented service appears to be Sony's approach to interactivity as well as portability, but it isn't limited to copying low-resolution movies to portable players. Other abilities include ring tone downloading and other media content to a BD Live media player.
David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, said, "There was always the promise of greater interactivity. You'll see that coming in the new year," though more details on what else BD Live will offer were few at best. Expect more in store as developments roll in.
A whole lotta kudos goes to TheSilenceOfNoOne for the tip!
Via PC World
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This will the the UMD movies isn't?... anyway will be the best they can do.. I will really love this feature... I just hope that I can add the subtitles too
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they are not so dumbs... it will have some drm or copyright in it to be only played in the PSP... thats why they still don't launch it since a year... if something that sony have in mind is the security.. anyway the movies to the psp will be only at 480p... so... the blu ray movies will keep sellingg because if someone buy a blu ray movie is to watch it in 1080 isn't? will all the features in it... that what I C is going to die is the UMD movies but that was already dead..
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Also, you don't need 1080 anything to enjoy a movie on a PSP considering the resolution of a PSP screen is like 400x200 (its slightly different, I just dont remember the exact resolutin) so even a 480p sized video is MORE than enuff to enjoy on your PSP. Consumers forget (or dont know) that all "HD" is, is a larger resolution than we've had before. 1080 (which is 1920x1080) looks great on a huge HD tv, but won't look better on a PSP due to it's screen's resolution.
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1080p is impossible on a PSP because the PSP only has 480x272 resolution max. So the best a PSP can do is 272p.
As for the piracy issue, it started way back during the old days of video gaming. The main reason why there are few IP's on PSP is because the cost and time constraint. Developing a game for a PSP takes as much as resource as developing a game for a console.
If piracy is the main reason why developers are backing out to make titles, then what can you say about the PC gaming? PC gaming has been and always been the most pirated department of the gaming world. Yet, we can still see games, good games mind you, coming out for the platform.
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They will have to hack the PS3, because the ps3 is the one that is doing the ripping here.
The psp on the other hand, is only recieving data from the PS3. There is nothing the PSP does in this process instead of recieving Data, the resolution the PS3 rips to is set on the PS3.
So this is the same as saying people shouldn't develope bluray drives for in their computer because someone will write a programm to rip them to a HD.
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That said, the PSP can handle 720x480 video. The video contained on UMD Video discs is at this resolution. The PSP simply downscales it to fit the 480x272 screen. The higher/original resolution is still used when a PSP Slim is connected to a television and outputting at 480i/p for standard NTSC/ATSC resolution.
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