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Sony released first specs and pics of PSP

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Sony revealed some details about its upcoming handheld game machine, dubbed as PSP or Playstation Portable.

Current design version, which may or may not look like the final version due by the end of the year 2004, uses storage media dubbed as UMD (Universal Media Disc) which holds appx. 1.8GB of storage space. Each disc will carry a region coding, copy-protection mechanism and each disc will have its own individual identification number as well.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/4661.cfm

i.afterdawn.com/news/sony_psp.jpg

(This picture is definitely worth a look imo)

Device will include two processors, both based on MIPS R4000 core. PSP will support Dolby 7.1 surround audio, AAC, MP3 and Sony's own ATRAC3 as audio formats and will also support MPEG-4 H.264 for video.

Source: TheRegister

Written by dRD (11/5/2003 20:40)