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PSP On Tv
By admin | August 31, 2010
Ever since man first watched television two thoughts have been in his brain. The first one was ” I sure could use a beer.” and the second one is “damn, I wish I could make this bigger. This train of thought has been in the minds of gamers since the original release of the Gameboy. Toys ‘r’ us always had a Gameboy hooked up to a big screen to play.
PSP on TV Does just that. This product takes the image on the PSP screen and sends it to a television. It does this through the use of high quality optic sensors similar to what is used in High end scanners. The best part is it does not void the manufacturer’s warranty or any other 3rd party warranty. The device just snaps on to the front of the PSP. So easy that even Jessica Simpson could figure it out. My main concern with this device is the video quality. The reflecting of the image might make it hard to get a good image. Yet I have seen several devices that do the same thing on other devices and they work damn well.
There are other competing products that offer to do the same thing but the console has to be oppend and the product has to be installed and a bulky faceplate has to be added in place of the old Sony one. At Digital Fan we love voiding our warranties but we recommend that readers not open their consoles unless they know the risk.
The first thing that I noticed when I removed the device was it’s comical apearance. It’s like having an X-ray while you play the game. All joking aside how the unit looks is of little importance. The unit installed very easily and was equally easy to remove.
I played several emulators and games with this device and I had a lot of fun in the process. The picture quality was less than amazing but far better then I was expecting. The graphics look surprisingly decent. You will notice some artifacts until you adjust the game brightness and the PSP screen brightness to suit the game. The device connects to the television through standard audio video cables and the cables are fairly long. The picure looks to me like one of those old gameboy-bigscreen displays at Bestbuy. The picture has a fair amount of “fuzz” in certain situations. I found this to mainly be when the brightness on the game was too high or if the player sat too close to the television. All in all the only way the picture quality could have been better is if the device was hard-wired into the PSP.
The sound worked fairly well but again you will have to play with the volume on the PSP to get the level just right so that you don’t get any audio distortion. Something I noticed about the sound is that if the brightness isn’t adjusted right you can get a slight “hum” in the speakers. This can also be caused by sitting too close to the television or another electronic device.It is also possible to just take the audio output of the PSP and run it directly into your sound system. This can also reduce the accurance of interference.
From the looks of the device one would assume that it would feel top heavy and interfere with the gaming experience. This turned out to not be true. The device is very light weight and designed not to block any buttons. After a few minutes I forgot it was even there. It also seems to be fairly sturdy although light in weight. It doesn’t look like you would want to drop it very many times but if you do the unit should survive.
It should be also mentioned that when the unit is removed it can be used as a “spy cam”. Aim it all over the room and see whatever the sensor is pointed at. Also useful if you ever wanted to see what your butt looked like…. That was something I wish I never saw. Anyway The device is easy to use and works fairly well but the price tag of 99 dollars seems a little high. For me it is well worth the price of admission.
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