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Just thought this might be an interesting one.
Have a bit of a session with your mates and get to some food stuck inbetween your teeth do you try and find a tooth pick or just use the stylus?
Is there some safety concerns here?
Have a bit of a session with your mates and get to some food stuck inbetween your teeth do you try and find a tooth pick or just use the stylus?
Is there some safety concerns here?
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gerrid wrote:
> Macintosh wrote:
> I saw a portable DVD player for
> just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but
> people were still buying the thing!
>
> I doubt very much that this unit is selling well at all. Find it and
> show me sales charts where "people were still buying the
> thing". Obviously some people will be buying something like that
> but I'd wager not many. And even fewer if it used UMDs. What facts
> exactly was I stretching?
And if you think about it, they could use it to play their current DVD collection portably. So maybe that would be useful for a car journey or something. Not much else though.
Now imagine that AND having to buy all your favourite movies again because it uses a different format...
Now that is TRULY pointless.
> Macintosh wrote:
> I saw a portable DVD player for
> just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but
> people were still buying the thing!
>
> I doubt very much that this unit is selling well at all. Find it and
> show me sales charts where "people were still buying the
> thing". Obviously some people will be buying something like that
> but I'd wager not many. And even fewer if it used UMDs. What facts
> exactly was I stretching?
And if you think about it, they could use it to play their current DVD collection portably. So maybe that would be useful for a car journey or something. Not much else though.
Now imagine that AND having to buy all your favourite movies again because it uses a different format...
Now that is TRULY pointless.
It's the same thing with DVD players in PS2s. Everyone says "wow it's so great" but no one uses it, then people list it as an advantage. It's not an advantage if you don't use it but have to pay for it - I'd call that being an idiot and buying something you don't need.
Movies are totally pointless.
If you stay in to watch them ... may as well save your eyesight and watch a DVD. If you're on the move, going to work or whatever, you're not going to be paying attention to the screen as much and probably won't even be able to watch a whole film in the time period.
Meh
If you stay in to watch them ... may as well save your eyesight and watch a DVD. If you're on the move, going to work or whatever, you're not going to be paying attention to the screen as much and probably won't even be able to watch a whole film in the time period.
Meh
Yeah, i can just see the whole family at christmas gathering around a table with a PSP on it. "OMG WOW LOOK AT THE SPECIAL EFFECTS MA!"
From what i read Sony are leaving it up to companies to bring movies out on their format. But some will only come out for the PSP, like a final fantasy one was announced.
I either see them doing that and getting bad sales of the movie to release it on DVD anyway, or scrap the idea once they see how it goes.
From what i read Sony are leaving it up to companies to bring movies out on their format. But some will only come out for the PSP, like a final fantasy one was announced.
I either see them doing that and getting bad sales of the movie to release it on DVD anyway, or scrap the idea once they see how it goes.
Hahahahahahaha.
The movie feature is just pointless.
OK, on mobile phones where you can get like 1 minute clips of something, thats not too bad. But a whole movie?
Imagine watching LoTR on it, you'd have to plug your PSP adapter in, shove in the UMD and turn off the lights while squinting at the tiny screen. You'd have to hold it for the duration of the movie, propping it up against a book or something would be just plain stupid.
The irony is, you stay inside watching a movie on a 4.3" screen when there is a DVD player and a huge telly somewhere in the house.....
The movie feature is just pointless.
OK, on mobile phones where you can get like 1 minute clips of something, thats not too bad. But a whole movie?
Imagine watching LoTR on it, you'd have to plug your PSP adapter in, shove in the UMD and turn off the lights while squinting at the tiny screen. You'd have to hold it for the duration of the movie, propping it up against a book or something would be just plain stupid.
The irony is, you stay inside watching a movie on a 4.3" screen when there is a DVD player and a huge telly somewhere in the house.....
They'll be more than £10 and they'll be very limited in variety. Even most of Sony's own production studios haven't signed up to using them. They'll go the same way as MiniDisc albums, you just wait and see. For media like that to work it has to be industry standard. It doesn't matter for games but for music and films it's all important. I've always said that movie playback on PSP is a useless feature not worth the extra money you pay for it.
Edgy wrote:
> Macintosh wrote:
>
> So you're saying that the PSP can't outsell the GBASP overnight -
> kinda thing that you give me the impression is impossible to do.
Only in Japan. GBA SP sold 2 million in the same period the DS sold 1.2 million in America.
> HOWEVER...
>
> ...The Nintendo DS has outsold GBASP in terms of weekly sales figures
> and has outsold Nokia N-Gage and Ipod in terms of total units sold?
I-pod is a terrible example, Nintendo used it as in units sold when the I-pod was first released. But you needed a mac to run it!!!!
Nokia N-GAGE, you could play music, surf the internet and play 3D games. Flopped.
The Sony PSP plays movies, it is one of the uber cool new features.
You've got to be kidding. That will not take off. Buying mini versions of movies for £10 at least to watch on this tiny little screen???
What's the point!
That's just stupid!
> Macintosh wrote:
>
> So you're saying that the PSP can't outsell the GBASP overnight -
> kinda thing that you give me the impression is impossible to do.
Only in Japan. GBA SP sold 2 million in the same period the DS sold 1.2 million in America.
> HOWEVER...
>
> ...The Nintendo DS has outsold GBASP in terms of weekly sales figures
> and has outsold Nokia N-Gage and Ipod in terms of total units sold?
I-pod is a terrible example, Nintendo used it as in units sold when the I-pod was first released. But you needed a mac to run it!!!!
Nokia N-GAGE, you could play music, surf the internet and play 3D games. Flopped.
The Sony PSP plays movies, it is one of the uber cool new features.
You've got to be kidding. That will not take off. Buying mini versions of movies for £10 at least to watch on this tiny little screen???
What's the point!
That's just stupid!
Macintosh wrote:
> I saw a portable DVD player for
> just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but
> people were still buying the thing!
I doubt very much that this unit is selling well at all. Find it and show me sales charts where "people were still buying the thing". Obviously some people will be buying something like that but I'd wager not many. And even fewer if it used UMDs. What facts exactly was I stretching?
> I saw a portable DVD player for
> just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but
> people were still buying the thing!
I doubt very much that this unit is selling well at all. Find it and show me sales charts where "people were still buying the thing". Obviously some people will be buying something like that but I'd wager not many. And even fewer if it used UMDs. What facts exactly was I stretching?
The fact is, though, that it can play DVDs, load of which are coming out and which has an almost infinite library of material.
But the PSP's hard state media crap?
How many movies has it got?
But the PSP's hard state media crap?
How many movies has it got?
gerrid wrote:
> yes, that's what I was saying. It's a games machine first, but you
> don't have any idea about the games on it.
>
> And portable DVD players are fine, because they have 12" screens
> and they use DVDs. The PSP is a sub standard movie player and MP3
> player, so you're paying extra for substandard machinary. If it was a
> pure games machine then it would be much cheaper and much better
> value.
Your stretching the facts there. Many (lots) of low cost portable DVD players have only a 6 inch screen. I saw a portable DVD player for just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but people were still buying the thing!
But it is a shame you cant play standard DVD's on a PSP - on the other hand, the unit would be larger.
> yes, that's what I was saying. It's a games machine first, but you
> don't have any idea about the games on it.
>
> And portable DVD players are fine, because they have 12" screens
> and they use DVDs. The PSP is a sub standard movie player and MP3
> player, so you're paying extra for substandard machinary. If it was a
> pure games machine then it would be much cheaper and much better
> value.
Your stretching the facts there. Many (lots) of low cost portable DVD players have only a 6 inch screen. I saw a portable DVD player for just over £60 the other day, and it had a tiny screen - but people were still buying the thing!
But it is a shame you cant play standard DVD's on a PSP - on the other hand, the unit would be larger.
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