Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has delayed the launch of the Skype service for PSP users just 24 hours before it was due to launch.
The company had prepared two first-party microphone packages for launch day, but neither of these has met specifications defined by Skype.
As a result, Sony said it decided to postpone the launch of the service until a solution can be found.
"Seems our little friend the PSP will soon be getting DivX Certification to allow for the downloading of movies and TV shows through the PC store, transferred from PS3 and from selected third party online retailers (psst...starts with G and ends with le).
DivX for PSP should be released within two months and be included with the 4.0 firmware update."
"We caught up with John Koller, senior product manager for the PSP at Sony's CES booth this week, to get a quick update on the company's portable plans."
@CrAzZyYmAn, This article is quite different from the article that was previously posted. If you read both articles, the one that was previously posted only highlighted the announcement. I posted this one because of the numerous questions that came along with the posting of that article (you can see these in the comments of that article) that are answered in the most part in this article. This article highlights the technical specs of the service such as the resolution, the amount of space a movie will take up, and more. These are answers to the questions that arose from the previously posted article. Thanks for the heads-up up though (I also had already posted comments on the other article that speculated on what the specifications of the service would be).
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"When we heard about Blu-ray-to-PSP movie transfers getting all official we got pretty excited, even though the announcement was a little skimpy on the details: How big are the files? How long will it take to download a movie? How odious is the DRM? Most importantly, when? Well, we've got 'em all right here."
On February 28th, the Japanese PSP-2000 is set to arrive in yet another fresh new color: Mint Green. This subtle and unnervingly attractive addition to the rainbow riot going on over there will cost ¥19,800, or roughly $181. Its qualities can likely be analyzed for several more sentences, but we don't want to make it too obvious that this simple news story is in desperate need of filler text. Best we end it off quickly with another play on the "Mint Green" name. -Joystiq
We checked out a working demo version of Skype on the PSP at Sony's booth and are pleased to report that audio quality was pretty decent. The only caveat is a bit of lag time in the audio transmission, less than a second but enough to be noticeable.
@apujanata, I do believe that this will not significantly add to PSP sales potential, so you are correct. I could see a valid argument that the PS3 will see a little bit of added sales from the feature (as PSP owners would want to be able to access the feature), but it will alone not have many people buy a system. Adding more features over time will probably add some more sales, but each individual feature alone does not add significant amount of sales. Also, in the electronics industry, the most featured packed device does not always win (look at the iPod).
@Joe80, New models tend to boost sales more than new features. This is the case with the PSP Slim (and the DS Lite, etc). The PSP Slim really did not add all that many new features to the PSP platform, so its comparison with one new feature as in this case is very iffy.
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