RE: Sony PSP: a blip on the radar screen

["Martyn Stewart" <>]

I cant ever believe that something like this would make me persuade
holding off buying something like say a "Portadisk?, price or no price,
around $300 is never going to give you the facilities that a
professional recorder like the Portadisk or the upcoming Marantz flash
card recorders can give you. Anything with a LCD screen in the field is
going to also give major headaches like a potable laptop or picture book
does with light glare. Sorry, unless you tell me the Nagra V is being
sold for $500, it won't turn my head

Martyn

-----Original Message-----
From: oryoki2000 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 6:55 PM
To: 
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Sony PSP: a blip on the radar screen

Sony may have just announced the successor to the Minidisc in the
form of the new Playstation Portable (PSP).  Sony's CEO calls the PSP
device "the Walkman of the 21st century."=20

The core of the PSP is the "Universal Media Device,"  a 60mm disc
with 1.8GB capacity (about the same size as a minidisc, with three
times greater capacity).  The PSP will use ATRAC, but will also
support MPEG4 video and audio.=20

Being a game machine, the PSP will have a color LCD and joystick
controls.   The PSP will have a slot for memory stick, and a USB 2.0
port for connection to a computer.=20

To compete with other handheld game machines, the PSP price will have
to be below $300.  That's a tremendous amount of technology at a
price below what current top of the line minidisc machines sell for.

OK, now the bad news: Sony does not expect to deliver the PSP until
Fall, 2004.  So don't delay your purchase of a minidisc recorder just
yet.

--oryoki






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