Brent L

Where did you get that picture? Is that really what is on the way eventually?

I'd buy that model in a second!

edstein

Whoa!

njchris

Mine doesn't get smudges (except on the screen if I touch it)

edstein

Nice skin.

Edison

I found the link here although there isn't any story to go along. I remeber someone mentioning that there would be a GT pack at some point including a White PSP, and Gran Turismo game.

RyoHazuki

That other 1 gb is out of stock at mwave now.

I found this: http://www.sparco.com/cgi-bin/wfind2?spn=A55F495 . Out of stock but only 108 and arrival expected on the 21st.

karnblack

Yeah...I tried to get my roommate to get it, but he's going to wait as well. Hopefully Dell will make it's estimated ship date of 4/25.

fab

How could this be? The first million haven't even been sold through yet...

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Josh H

Doesn't necessarily mean that more than a million have already been produced and shipped to stores though, and that he just had bad luck and they sold through the ones with Spider-man wherever he bought it.

JustInsane

That's exactly right. I check everywhere around where I live and they had all sold out, before giving up and just doing a pre-order at EB. The funny part is I went in Friday afternoon to do the pre-order and that night they called and said mine had come in, after telling me they weren't getting any for a couple of weeks. Anyhow, I'm very happy to have it, just wished I could have got SP2 with it.

Brewc

Did you try wal-mart? Theres about 10 in the case here with SP2, return that and send me a Money order for the cost $249, tax 5% and shipping Prioroty mail and give me a DVD or $10 and I'll get you one with SP2. If thats too much hassle then try ebay.

PerryD

Don't be too disappointed with not getting Spider-Man 2. Just wait a few months and I'm sure Sony will release it on UMD with full packaging for $20 or less. Even at that time, people (like me) may be willing to sell the pack-in version to get the version with packaging.

JustInsane

Thanks for the offer. Since I've already opened it and been playing, it's a little hard to return. Guess I'll just wait and see if what Perry C says happens.

cseyer

I have seen SP2 up for preorder looks like it will be less than $20 on May 17th so you didnt miss out too much. (Except its Eye candy and a great way to show off your new toy to friends).

Here is a link although its not DVD Talkified

http://www.dvdempire.com/Exec/v4_ite...item_id=670649

SmackDaddy

Well, after 5 tries I got a flawless PSP and am lovin' it!! First one had a bubble in the plastic over the screen, second dead pixels, third dead pixels and problems loading UMD's, fourth a ton (about 15) dead pixels and finally a flawless one!!

All the previous ones were from the Circuit City where I purchased it orignally. The good one came from a different CC and even had some damage to the box, so go figure.

I picked this up along with Twisted Metal and I really like it. Yeah the load times are a little long but heck, it's a unique, cool game. I'm around 30% done, but the difficulty of the puzzels ramps up so the last 70% will take a lot longer thatn the first 30%. Plus, there is also an unlockable world and puzzles to unlock in each level for finishing with top scores, so it should have some re-play value.

warcp

got one at the Target in Burbank, CA after looking everywhere for a week. Looks like they're onto the second shipment because mine didn't come with Spidey 2.

karnblack

Is anyone else outraged that the Spider-Man 2 UMD is not in its OAR?

SmackDaddy

Just played Twisted Metal over a Wi-Fi connection at a burger place near work during lunch. Man, how sweet is that feature?? Well, pretty f'n sweet!!


Only took a minute to detect the network and enter my user/pass for the game and [madden] BOOM! [/madden] I was online and playing 6/6 Twisted Metal!!

There were only abour 8 games running and I played the Russi and New York levels with 2 different groups. Lag free for me, and a heck of a lot more fun than cpu bots.

Any thoughts I had about returning the PSP before my 30 days are up are history.....

njchris

I thought I read that they just expanded the top and bottom .. so you arent losing any picture, just getting some more. Can anyone verify this?

fujishig

I highly doubt that that's the case. I read that they did a combination of pan-and-scan and minor cropping, though I haven't watched the whole movie. The AR are close enough that most people won't notice, though.

edit: from ign's review of the Spiderman movie:
http://psp.ign.com/articles/596/596755p1.html?fromint=1
The video was cropped and scanned slightly so that the movie wouldn't short-change the full-screen PSP picture (Spider-Man 2 was shot for theaters in the Scope aspect ratio, with is a super-widescreen style invented for Westerns and old-era Hollywood cineramas -- that's why the letterboxing is so heavy on your DVD at home -- so the real movie is more widescreen than the PSP itself.) Some purists may find fault with this (a few of the trailers on the disc and sampler are letterboxed instead of pan-and-scanned), but with the formatting being done on the vertical and with a much wider screen to fill (instead of the square box that your TV is), it's a fair compromise for a screen this small. There is some slight smearing of heavy action sequences because of the PSP screen's refresh rate, but detail is often high enough to keep things smooth -- the coffee shop scene looks amazing, and the subway battle puts the system to a test that it passes admirably.

darkside

This will be the case for all the 2.35:1 films. Considering how small the screen is I don't think its a major deal. You are going to make sacrifices in quality to get movies on the PSP.

karnblack

I just hope that the movie studios don't think that just because the majority of people will accept this MAR that they can carry this over to the DVD releases. I believe once 16x9 televisions become ubiquitous we will see more MAR releases by the studios, and they will point to the acceptance of the MAR on the PSP as a precedent. Think of the commercials that have become commonplace in movie theaters, and now starting to creep onto DVDs. If you give them an inch...

P.S. I don't mind black bars on my PSP screen. OAR please.

fujishig

Nah, the DVD community is much more vocal about this kind of stuff, as that's the primary way for home viewers to view movies. If anyone is using the PSP as their primary viewer for movies at home, they're in trouble.

Besides, as clear as a UMD is, there's no way you can view a lot of movies the way they were supposed to be seen in a theater anyway... a lot of the detail is either lost or too small to appreciate. Not to mention the sound isn't exactly DD5.1, is it?

And are videophiles really going to buy movies on UMD?

JaxComet

The UMD movie feature is nice but the bottom line is that I bought my PSP for games. Not for movies, music, photos, or video clips......

Josh H

Yep. Plus it seems liked a 1GB Memory Stick is the way to go for movies.

1. Saves you form rebuying movies you have on DVD
2. Much longer battery life during playback
3. Can rip to OAR (I assume)

Only draw back is lesser picture quality, but I think the other factors more than atone for that. I know that's the route I'll take if and when I pick up a PSP.