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Nodame

10-06-2007, 10:52 PM

I am soooooooo disappointed...

I ... dont want ... an HD tv ....

I am so disappointed with the PSP slim.

First thing I did after I bought the PSP was, I bought a Component AV cable for the PSP-2000

My Tv has those component plugs so I thought my TV could do progressive scan.

Anyways, I come home, rip apart my PSP slim, it's everything people were saying it was, it's slim, it's smaller, it's soooooooooooo light. Amazing.

I put in a UMD movie and start watching and I start giggling. Ooh man am I gonna have fun with this. I connect it to my Tv and start watching the movie. it looks great BTW for a UMD quality movie.

Screw UMD's I wanted to play games and I put in Parappa the Rapper ...

*sighs*
I get this sign....

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/7782/1006072025oq6.jpg

What is this???!

Ok, so I have to have the TV in progressive? Well I have Component Av cables, no problem ...

I switch to Progressive, and this is what happens....
*sighs*
http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/4687/1006072026pt8.jpg

What the hELL!?!?!?

I had to switch back immediately and I tried countless other games thinking maybe one of them will not output progressive but interlaced. Nope.

I don't know what to say. TURNS OUT, You can not play games on your TV UNLESS you have an HD tv with Progressive scan, Otherwise, you can use it to watch movies or listen to music on your TV. Why would anyone buy a PSP just to watch movies and listen to music on their TV? Maybe one can put demos of their work on the PSP and show it proudly on a TV to clients when going to game conventions, but that not why Sony made this output feature.

I much rather be playing some of these games on a TV instead of the PSP screen. but it has to be a HD TV that supports progressive scan? isn't that pushing it a little? How many people actually have TV's like this? Wrong question, how many people can actually buy a TV like this? If you do have HD-TV, seriously, congratulations, thats awesome, you dont have to worry about this.

But not every PSP fan is gonna have a freaking HD TV with Progressive scan.

I don't know what to do now ... I feel a little cheated. None of the gaming blogs I know of mentioned anything about the PSP slim not supporting standard TV's or I wouldn't have actually purchased a PSP slim until I had a TV to connect it to.

Shame!

In the mean time,

know of a way I can connect this PSP to my computer screen? What connectors would I need? I have a DVI computer screen, thats all I know about my computer screen. Any suggestions?

Please tell me this is some sort of a joke and that I can use a d-terminal AV cable to output in progressive scan ....

Ybrik Metaknight

10-07-2007, 12:35 AM

Sounds like typical Sony to me.

SaveSuperJoe

10-07-2007, 01:14 PM

Well, I'd agree with you saying that people bought the PSP to play games except that it is simply untrue. People buy the PSP (Aside from "to play Tactics") to be an all purpose machine, which includes playing movies and music.

Nodame

10-07-2007, 01:20 PM

Ooh, Kotaku posted something about this.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/uh-oh/psp-slim-doesnt-play-nice-with-some-sdtvs-307964.php

Woffester

10-07-2007, 08:25 PM

This is weird because what is more often the case is things play on SD TV's but not HD because of hardware limitations. Wouldn't it be pretty easy for Sony to release a firmware fix for this?

riallatar

10-08-2007, 08:05 AM

Haven't bought a Sony product since 2004 and I'm not missin' it much at all.

Ace!

10-08-2007, 09:38 AM

It's been since 2001 for me! Unless you count that used version of Last Action Hero for the NES (Complete in box!).

Kaijin

10-08-2007, 02:03 PM

LOL. I must have left my delorean set to August 1st.

Some fun facts, the standard AV cables will not play PSP games. You will need the component cables as, even though the games are on a small display, they're all natively progressive. The videos are not. After displaying the game on your new high definition tv, should you get one, you'll notice they don't fill a widescreen display and infact will still have black bars letterboxing it. Sony is a corporation and doesn't care what you bought the system for. They've already decided it's to play portable games, hence why the video-out support is so limited.

I know it sucks that the video out is limited in this fashion, but honestly, it's a portable system. They expect you to shell out the real cash if you want something that plays on a TV.

joe_cam

10-08-2007, 03:01 PM

How can you tell if your TV had progressive scan? I'm sure this is a retarded question, but I honestly don't know. I don't THINK mine does, but the video 1 imput does have component jacks, so I just wonder if it would be possible to display games.
Then again, it's a fairly older (5 years or more) big screen RCA and isn't even a widescreen TV, so I kinda doubt it.

Miller

10-08-2007, 04:08 PM

Check your owners manual Joe. If it doesn't mention progressive scan for component then it doesn't have it.

And as far as connecting it to your monitor:

http://reviews.dcemu.co.uk/review-xcm-universal-ypbpr-1080p-vga-box-74868.html

Kaijin

10-08-2007, 04:32 PM

Nodame

10-08-2007, 06:13 PM