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Here’s a quote from the TeamXtender website:
As per expected, the announcement of PSP2TV has caused an uproar of feedback to us here at Team Xtender, whilst this feedback and support has been incredibly overwhelming there stills seems to be a few of you who are confused about the compatability of this product. Initialy PSP2TV was designed to work with only LCD, Plasma and HDTV type TV sets, however we have continuously poured masses of finance into the development of PSP2TV in order to make it compatible with ALL TV sets and as you can see from the pictures released earlier this week, the PSP2TV is now compatible with ALL TV types! Just one more time to make it clear, PSP2TV will work with ALL tv types and not limited just to those fancy ones. Now, we'd like to take this opportunity to clarify a few other misconceptions you may have about the PSP2TV, firstly the PSP2TV install is a breeze - we guarantee it will take you less than five minutes to do as all it involves is changing the PSP face
plate (which we supply) and using the docking station to enjoy your PSP on the big screen! It's a super simple solderless install and suitable for ALL gamers regardless of D.I.Y panache.
As you have just read, we will supply a PSP faceplate with the PSP2TV free of charge as this is of paramount importance to the installation of the product. Well guess what ? You guessed right! We will be offering the PSP faceplates in the future as a standalone product at a competitive price.
Moreover they will be available in a range of vibrant colours including our famous liquid crystal, ruby red and brilliant blue to name a few. We hope this update has put your mind at ease and confirms your intuition that this is a truly revolutionary product for the PSP. You can expect us to release more information and a video showing you the install procedure in the near future. Once again we'd like to thankyou all for your support and look forward to more of your kind comments.
We almost forgot to mention, some of you have been commenting that the pic showing PSP2TV connected up to the TV was fake previously, however this isn't the case at all - it just so happens that one of our dumb beta testers forgot to switch the aspect ratio on the device and the picture became a little distorted!
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wow so gay
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Sony's motivation for making such a product is that it's absolutely miserable to watch a UMD movie on such a (comparatively) small screen, even at arms length. If users could attach their PSP's video to a big screen then it would really boost the motivation for buying UMD videos besides the "hey that's kinda cool" factor.
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http://blogger.sahaskatta.com/2005/06/tv-tuner-4-psp.html
Essentially why not have the same thing with transmission capabilities. It wouldnt need to be strong, tune your TV in, and you are done? Better still you can do this with DTV signals to get crystal clear recption?
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Dont think this is vapourware because you dont understand the technology.
I would think composite video would be fine for a resolution of 472x240 (or whatever) Dont expect a PSP to output 1080p for AU$399....
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these are the guys that made **** loads of third party products for ps2 and xbox sure they copy certain ideas but they just make them user friendly and slightly more advanced for example the pstwo ide hack would u rather solder 30 wires or 30 points? making fun of xtender would kinda be like making fun of xecuter...
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"it just so happens that one of our dumb beta testers forgot to switch the aspect ratio on the device and the picture became a little distorted!"
Talk about unprofessional! I'm sure that "dumb" beta tester wasn't the same person tasked with approving this picture for use in your press release. Another case of overzealous management. Way to go jackass.
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this whole thing sounds like a big joke to me.
how could you connect to the PSP's video chip and controls just by changing the faceplate?
the faceplate is just plastic, it has nothing to do with the electronics inside (which are well hidden behind the sceen and buttons)
and do I need to mention that changing the faceplate takes a little more than 5 minutes contrary to what they say? as you need to be very careful with the screen.
also their faceplate would certainly not be as high quality as sony's, and will certainly get scratched even easier.
for the lag, why wouldnt these super smart scientists grab a pic of the PSP showing a photo or a game in PAUSE instead of insulting our intelligence like this. the setup is obviously fake.
I could easily plug some sort of cables to my psp now and show it in front of my TV screen with both the same image showing and tell you all to donate or preoder.
guys, Lighten up, a serious company would never display its work in progress. this thing will certainly be a total crap or joke.
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Also, anyone know if they found any retailer to sell or if it's just gonna be from their site?
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i can't speak for the games though, they might look "blurry" as people keep saying.
there are many applications to this though. be optimistic.
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For all those who are now pointing out the small problems with it, go make your own device that requires no soldering, and has many great features... Then mass produce it... Then make every single picture PERFECT like you all seem to think you can do. Good luck is all I have to say.
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account: Mediashell@bell net.ca (only for media and resellers)
Please check with our official resller www.modchipworld.com. Product will be available in the middle of October.
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so distortion changes the position on her hair, even when the original is distorted to the same shape? lol
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have faith .. stop being so objective
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As for using basic composite video, they claim that the adapter originally used HDTV and whatnot. It would have actually taken MORE development and a bigger interface to accomodate those types of displays than this composite one. Since when is it easier to produce HDTV than plain old composite?
As for those who still don't get it, you remove the faceplate of your PSP (VOIDING YOUR WARRANTY) and then slap this one in it's place. Somehow, the new faceplate taps into the video and controller ciruits of the PSP and then the faceplate routes those signals to the base unit which converts the video signal to the composite connectors and converts the PS2 controller signals to be usable by the PSP. If you look at the bottom of the new faceplate, you will notice a little extension piece. The back of this extension is a bus connector that connects to a bus on the baseplate. How this bus connects inside the PSP to access the video and controller signals is beyond me.
I would have figured that some further disassembly and possibly some soldering would be necessary. The team claims that it is just a matter of changing the faceplate. How then does it access the internal circuits of the PSP? I would think that you'd at least have to disconnect some internal ribbon cable or connector. A more horrible thought might be that the new faceplate somehow "cuts" or "punches" itself into the ribbon to gain access to the circuits.
I don't know enough about the PSP, but I do know about electronics, and it just doesn't seem possible to get this kind of functionality without doing more than just opening up the PSP and slapping on a new faceplate.
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If these people were serious, they wouldnt release some doctored still image, theyd release a realtime movie playback on tv, otherwise this is an utter pointless waste of space.
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every PSP at E3 was setup like this.
whether or not that image is perfectly in sync i don't really care. but you're just silly if you doubt that this is easily feasible.
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It would seem to me, more feasable that the image is different because there is some lag between the realtime video and the video actually being displayed, which is a major design flaw, imagine trying to play hotshots golf on that thing.
Besides, it's clearly not the same frame, and to be told "it's the same its just distorted" is patronising, especially when that's clearly untrue.
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FUnny Flash about how ****ing gay WAB is
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it was retarded.
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but yes, **** them for insulting our intelligence.
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Anyways, as someone said before though, I think Sony wili eventually come out with their own non-warranty voiding solution, perhaps with their next firmware update to allow you to play your PSP on your PS3 (that sounds reasonable, no?). As for blurriness...the PSP's resolution *is* more than half of a normal tv, so blurriness wouldn't be that bad. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it would be better than the PSX, wouldn't it?
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I agree I went to E3 and played the demos they had funny the interface they had was alot less complicated and bulky I see Sony comming out with something like this in the near future that is 10x better and doe not require you to void the warrenty by removing the face plate and who know what else you need to do to connect the interface.
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..lets just hope they fix the lag.
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as for this mod i think it would be great if they pull it off but i have my doubts of a solderless solution after looking at internal pics of the psp
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/forms/blobs/retrieve.cgi?attachment_id=508670&native_or_pdf=pdf
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For goodness sake if its gonna have 2 controler ports and a tv out just buy a ps2 and be done with it. This just seems like a useless piece of plastic.
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For those people who supposedly know about electronics obviously dont !. They never said it was in HDTV quality they said it would connect to LCD and HDTV. HDTV is not a video standard but a standard of television. If you look on your own HD TV and you have a good quality one you will see a multi connector on the side much like an expanded USB connector. With HD and LCD you dont need an RF modulator and can simply tap into the R, G, B and V-Sync. simple really.
Team X have been in the scene a long long time all you kids out there less then 16 years old, i would suggest you keep your pre-teen negative comments to yourself as your full of it.
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