Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Sony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/25/sony-america-scraps-umd-to-psp-go-conversion-plans/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/25/sony-america-scraps-umd-to-psp-go-conversion-plans/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/09/25/sony-america-scraps-umd-to-psp-go-conversion-plans/#comments Sony director of hardware marketing John Koller mentioned shortly after the E3 "reveal" of the PSP Go that the company was considering a "good will program," which would allow UMD owners to trade in their physical games for digital versions. However, yesterday at the Tokyo Game Show, an SCEA spokesperson told Kotaku, "We were evaluating a UMD conversion program, but due to legal and technical reasons we will not be offering the program at this time."

That's quite a blow to the base of American PSP owners with large libraries of UMD titles looking to upgrade to a PSP Go -- a blow significantly worsened by the European "PSP Go Rewards" initiative, which grants three free games to PSP Go purchasers who register for the promotion using an older PSP model. This same promotion will not be coming to the US. "SCEA region will not offer a UMD rewards program at this time," due to the fact that the company has a "dual-platform strategy," an SCEA spokesperson has explained to IndustryGamers.

Ironically enough, we have a "we'd rather not purchase our PSP games again to play them on a new version of your handheld" strategy going for us. It's working out pretty well so far.

JoystiqSony America scraps UMD-to-PSP Go conversion plans originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Do you want to convert videos for use on your PSP without the hassle of downloading and installing any other programs? Well, for the few of you out there, there's a new solution for you: Media-Convert. The site will let you upload your own files, or simply copy-paste a URL, and have them converted into a PSP-friendly format. It's incredibly easy, and as a bonus, lets you save your results on their servers for up to 6 days.

However, there's a huge drawback: the quality really sucks. In my opinion, it's barely watchable. For higher quality vids, you'll probably want to stick with PSP Fanboy Theatre.

[Via Pocket Gamer]

See also:
Convert YouTube videos for PSP really easily

JoystiqMake your videos PSP compatible online originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Some kid, or more likely, a 30 year old man, has had his room elaborately decorated in the style of Mario World. The conversion comes complete with ceiling pipes and blocks that stick out of the wall although, as far as I can tell, they held back from placing random bottomless pits around the room.

[Via BoingBoing]

JoystiqA trip to Mario World, without the GameBoy originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you've got a collection of DivX, Quicktime or any other form of video, and want to play them on the 360 (using Windows Media Extender), you've probably been disappointed so far. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of a plethora of video conversion tools.

From open-source to professional level, there's conversion software out there that will tackle almost any codec and turn your video into the 360-happy WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. HD Beat has discovered Videora Xbox360 Converter, a free piece of software designed to optimise any video for viewing on the 360.

Here's hoping other ways of getting video on the 360 will be discovered for those of us without Media Center Edition PCs.

[Via HDBeat; thanks, iData]

JoystiqConvert DivX to WMV for the 360 originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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