22nd June 2010, 1:13 PM
Yep. The second model of the PSP redesigned a port to output video and audio to a TV. Nothing too advanced, at max it supported progressive scan. However it did the job very well. It's fun to play certain games like that.
It's basically the same line that is slowly shifting everyone to laptops instead of desktop/laptop setup. Once a certain open standard for selling "cases" and letting people basically build whatever laptop they want is in place, the last big barrier will go down. Everything else is already in place (most laptops have a monitor-out port and input devices are all USB now). No one bothers getting exclusively "home" based audio now (except for speaker systems), so that transition's already complete. People basically just stick an iPod or other portable device into a speaker input line.
It's basically the same line that is slowly shifting everyone to laptops instead of desktop/laptop setup. Once a certain open standard for selling "cases" and letting people basically build whatever laptop they want is in place, the last big barrier will go down. Everything else is already in place (most laptops have a monitor-out port and input devices are all USB now). No one bothers getting exclusively "home" based audio now (except for speaker systems), so that transition's already complete. People basically just stick an iPod or other portable device into a speaker input line.
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