How is it a pain in the ass?

Doing a firmware upgrade takes five minutes, tops. And it's not even configurable. It says "Press X to Continue" and the system upgrades itself without any input from you.

Activating WMA via Wifi takes all of two seconds. Connecting to your wireless router is the only configuration issue that I'll bite onto, but configuring the unit to work with your wireless router is something that you do that with every wireless product you own. As for file conversion... what major portable media device DOESN'T require some sort of conversion process to put stuff on it? I know the iPod, Zune, and cell phones are all anal about what files they play back. I'm not saying it's acceptable that they do this, but it's not like the PSP only plays obscure formats. The thing does MP3, MP4, WAV, WMA (with the 2 second update), and MP4 AAC video. That seems relatively on par with the formats that other portable products support.

If wireless configuration seems like rocket science, perhaps you shouldn't have configured your router to use a dynamic WPA key with specific MAC address access lists over a DMZ with an unbroadcasted SSID. You can jump on unprotected wireless spots in less than 30 seconds with the PSP, I know, I've done it before.

How should Sony consider those who don't have Wifi? By putting an Ethernet port on the PSP? Or by including firmware updates on games which they already do?

I for one picked up a PSP lite and have had nothing but good times on the system with Final Fantasy Tactics, Daxter, and Lego Star Wars 2. Or is all this because Sony bashing is what's "in" right now?

so i herd u liek mudkips. i liek trading arts miniz. can it b trading arts miniz tyme nao plz?

Avatar customization is new and exciting!

HD disc sales are accounting for over 2% of movie sales now, and recently outstripped VHS sales.

I know it doesn't sound like much, but it means that the HD formats are now second only to DVD. I don't think we'll see a clear winner until a single format accounts for 15% more than the other format (BD getting 30% of disc sales to HD DVDs 15% or vice versa) I guess it's pretty doubtful they'll reach that amount by the holiday season, but we should get a pretty good idea of which one to invest in.

EngadgetHD ftw

So... that comes out to just over 200 inches wide by 112.5 inches tall... and at 512pixels x 288pixels...

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That means the pixels are about a square half inch. Geez.

@Chris:

The first console you ever bought/owned was during the last generation, wasn't it? Christ, I hate the Halo generation of gamers.

If this movie were re-released on Blu-ray, I just might buy twenty thousand copies. Worst movie ever, but quite possibly my favorite. I'd love to see it in HD.

Of course Sony was trying to push the Blu-ray format onto consumers. It was a great business decision. If the only thing they cared about was a high-capacity disc, they would've made a proprietary disc format for the PS3.

Since that idea is patently absurd, they killed two birds with one stone and not only gave developers more space, but also put a Blu-ray player into every home that owned a PS3.

And I have never complained once.

Whats your point? That you have a bigger penis? Christ almighty, you "OMG OLD NEWZ LOL" people need to get over yourselves.

Hell, I'd prefer an Aston Martin to a Hyundai... but only one of them is in my price range, and that's the problem.