Topic: PSP: Helping the Industry One New Pirate at a Time?

[Artimus]

Looking at the PSP board over at GameFaqs I was surprised to find aboutn half of the topics were regarding coverting videos to the PSP. Then it occured to me how many people will start downloading movies to save the step of ripping a DVD. A lot of people say they'll never pirate because they hate watching movies on their PC when they have  agreat tv in the same room. Well, if the option is wtaching it on the long planeride...suddently it's appealing.

Regardless of what anyone says, MP3 players have made MP3s boom and the so-called piracy shoot for the sky. So far movies have kept piracy somewhat in line because unlike music it has never been worth it. But if the PSP becomes  abig hit the temptation is going to be huge.

UMD might save the games, but the mvoies are another story...

[mantidor]

I still think watching it in a nice big TV is superior than watching it in a small screen. I dont see it having that much of an impact in piracy, watching movies in a PC monitor is really not that bad, in fact when I rent DVDs I prefer to watch them here, because the resolution is superior.

[ruby_onix]

A lot of people are commenting on how great it apparently is to use the PSP as a "manga viewer". If you rotate the images 90 degrees, then hold your PSP on a 90, you can see the entire page without having to scroll up and down.

But how exactly do you get manga (Japanese comic books, FYI) on your PSP? Piracy, of course!


(BTW, I can't see how reading bootleg manga scans on a screen that would have only 272 pixels of width resolution could possibly be "a good thing", scrolling or no scrolling.)

[Arbok]

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Originally posted by: ruby_onix
(BTW, I can't see how reading bootleg manga scans on a screen that would have only 272 pixels of width resolution could possibly be "a good thing", scrolling or no scrolling.)

I'm sure if you actually slapped down that huge wad of cash needed for a PSP you would try and justify "cool" side things you could do with it too, in an attempt to lessen the blow.

[mantidor]

but its not like this manga pirates werent downloading scanlations (scans translated from mangas made by fans) before. If anything they are saving money on ink, but with the price of the psp I think its more cost-effective (and better for your eyes also) to just print the damn manga, unless you have a million of them...

yes Im one of the pirates, >_<, its not like I could get any legal manga here anyway

[KDR_11k]

There are PDAs that use 640x480 on a vertical screen and with much cheaper memory. Use that for your hentai needs.

[Pale]

MP3 players caused the rise of MP3s?  I sure as heck don't think so.  Many MP3 players were prohibitively expensive in teh days of Napster.  I think things have leveled off since then.