Sony Shows Blu-ray And PSP Compatibility

At CES David Bishop of Sony showed PC World the up and coming ability to load certain Blu-ray movies onto your PSP for an on-the-go movie experience without having to waste your money on an UMD. It would seem that the feature will load just the film to your PSP memory stick. Bishop didn’t have any light to shed on how much memory it will take to store individual movies though; my guess is that a lot of people will have to delete many songs and a even more porn from their PSPs to make room. Although the $300 16GB Memory Stick Duo also announced at CES might alleviate the issue. You’ll have to talk to Johnson & Johnson to tackle your violated rear entry though.

Bishop also revealed future plans for Blu-ray discs to include a host of other features. Future releases will contain online games, ringtones and standard def versions of the film. Some of these features are already in action, but they are expected to gain more support in the near future.

The demonstration was done with an upcoming Blu-ray release of Men in Black - at least we know that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will be gracing PSP screens worldwide. So far it seems that the newly exclusive Warner Bros. are the only takers on these feature that has to be specifically coded into the disc. The standard def version and ringtones aren’t too terribly exciting, but hopefully success from the loadable movie feature will encourage more studios to include PSP capable content.

Even though any resourceful PSP owner with a high-speed internet connection can already load movies onto their portable system, this will be an easier way to watch Leonidas kick some poor schmoe into a bottomless pit. It’s starting to look like 2008 will see some of Sony’s bad habits broken. Perhaps this time around some of the promises made in regards to the PSP will not be broken, and will also cease to be massive disappointments when kept.