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Tips on Buying a Sony PSP

Sony PSP has become very popular worldwide for its exciting games and extended memory cards to extend your memory. If you want you can buy Sony PSP Memory Stick PRO Duo memory cards online and the price varies widely on these so you'll really want to shop around. Sony will be coming out with the 4GB PRO Duo. The price will reportedly be around $250. The PSP Memory Stick PRO Duo is one of the very few items associated with the PSP that doesn't have to be manufactured or distributed by Sony to work. The San Disk PSP Memory Stick PRO Duo is much cheaper than Sony's and works just as well.

On downloads

It's up to you to decide if you want to collect and buy Sony PSP movies on UMD disks or download them. You'll probably find it is much cheaper to download the movies yourself, either from your DVDs or video files on your computer or downloaded straight from an online source. Although it is cheaper initially to do it this way, the expense comes with having to replenish your Memory Sticks once they fill up with the files you want to keep. Of course, you can upload files to your computer to make room for new ones but you'll still want to back up those files.

You may need to download software for the PSP in order for you to play some movies and music. There are free and pay offers all over the internet for games, movies and music but PSP Blender has all three. You can download full versions of all 3 for a one-time fee of $37. You first download the files to your PC and from there to your PSP.

When you download software for the PSP you may download a free or fee-based video converter. You'll need one of these to transfer the movie files you download to an acceptable format for the PSP. You might also download a DVD ripper that will "rip" the movie files off of your DVDs; however you will still need video conversion software in order to further download these files to your PSP.

The DVD

There's certainly more than one choice no matter which cost factor you choose. We'll go over one of each here. Sony's Media Manager, which sells for $19.95 to download the software and $29.95 for the packaged version, will transfer the video files to your PSP. However, it won't "rip" the movie off of your DVD. Meaning it won't copy the files from your DVD to your computer. Once you have "ripped" or "burned" or simply copied those files, then the Media Manager will download the DVD movie to your PSP.

OK look at it this way. Unless you're just petrified or you really don't want to mess with transferring your DVD movie to your PSP, you won't lose anything by trying something for free. If you don't like it or have difficulty with the transfer then you can always pay for the easier ones. In fact, whether you choose the free one or the pay utility, you can download either one to your computer. So it wouldn't hurt to download the free one and then if you didn't like it, whip out the ole credit card and buy the other one.

Using the PSP Media Manager is the easiest way to download music from your computer to your PSP. It only costs about $25 and for all it does it is really worth it. If you don't already know how to download music to your PSP, the PSP Media Manager will save you a lot of headaches. It finds the music files on your PC and converts them to the proper format. It even has a CD extractor so you can essentially listen to your CDs on your PSP.

On Music

In order to understand how to download music to your PSP, you'll need to understand what the acceptable file formats are. Besides the ATRAC3 and ATRAC3plus, they are WAV files, MP3 and MP4 files. If you are downloading music files to your PSP using the Sonic Stage software, it's important to note that you'll also need to be running Windows XP. You'll also need to make sure you have the latest update for your PSP system installed.

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