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Sony May Complete RSS Support For PSP 31

Posted by Zonk from the getting-what-you-want dept.
Taro Taka writes "A Sony spokeswoman has actually admitted they will stop crippling the PSP's RSS functionality if enough customers ask for it." From the article: "SCEI will consider adding compatibility for RSS text feeds should users request it, said Nanako Kato, a spokeswoman for SCEI in Tokyo. The support for podcasts allows users to stream audio content to the PSP. The system supports feeds compatible with RSS 2.0 and encoded in the MP3 or AAC (MPEG4) formats. The firmware update also added support for Windows Media Audio files, direct download of copy-protected content through the PSP's Web browser, and Chinese-language character encoding." We just mentioned the rollout of the limited RSS functionality they already support.
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  • And people say... (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Sinryc ( 834433 ) on Monday December 05, 2005 @08:52PM (#14190097)
    And people say Sony hates its consumers. :-) Not all of Sony is bad.

  • I don't have a psp but.. (Score:4, Insightful)

    by BkBen7 ( 926853 ) <bkben3@gmail.com> on Monday December 05, 2005 @09:11PM (#14190208) Homepage
    Wouldn't it be better just to keep the old firmware and get a homebrew rss reader?
    • It may be too late for current owners, but I'd say this is another reason to not buy Sony consumer electronics in the first place. That said, PSP is primarily a game device and secondarily a media device. Any use outside of that is not a major priority in the design and should probably be considered a bonus.

  • Way to read the title... (Score:3, Funny)

    by MMaestro ( 585010 ) on Monday December 05, 2005 @09:44PM (#14190386)
    From the article : Sony will consider text RSS

    Great... basicly they'll go from 'consider' to 'actually implement' if we sell our souls to them. I'll be over here playing my DS.

    • How exactly do I sell my soul to Sony in exchange for full-fledged RSS support? I understand that you love Nintendo and hate Sony and simply have to get that opinion out there but it would be nice if you at least made some sense. Basically the article states that if Sony sees demand for the feature, they'll add it. That seems pretty reasonable to me. I know that I would appreciate that. I'm just trying to understand your line of thought. Have you used the PSP? (I know that I have yet to find a retail outlet
      • Best Buy is finally starting to get demo PSPs at least around here (Atlanta). I'm not sure why no one has had them yet. Its been very annoying to just buy games without at least trying them for a couple of minutes.

      • RTFA (Score:5, Insightful)

        by MMaestro ( 585010 ) on Tuesday December 06, 2005 @04:00AM (#14191872)
        if enough gamers ask for the feature, Big S will add text capabilities to the existing streaming audio enclosure functionality. Way to go Sony, but why the heck not just do it anyway?

        Lets see:

        1. They'll add text capabilities for the audio enclosure. This is not 'full-fledged RSS support'.
        2. Why now? Why wait until hackers cracked their firmware in no less than 3 major instances AND after their huge DRM fiasco. This just says 'we need to rebuild our street cred.'
        3. Fans had to 'beg' for Sony to CONSIDER allowing limited RSS support. Last time I checked, I didn't have to 'beg' Ford for permission to install a new sound system into my car.

        This is just Sony throwing one life preserver to a thousands of drowning people. Limited support is crap and everyone knows it, after the DRM fiasco no one is gonna trust a Sony audio related product and be honest here. Only the most hardcore fans 'begs' a company for anything. You have to sink pretty low to cause someone to use that kind of language.

  • So basically we have to beg for features now?
  • How many of you PSP owners actually use your PSP to access the internet? I know there's a webbrowser, but I would imagine it to be cumbersome to use.
    • I do more browsing on the internet with it than playing games some weeks. TV is downstairs, computer upstairs... and I just want to check this one site I saw on the TV.

      That, and checking the TV guide. Its actually a very nice (if slow) browser. Makes for a very portable way to do X plus reference the web. It has up to three 'tabs', and renders pages pretty well. Only real flaw is popups, it doesn't do them at all so some sites just can't be accessed. Also you can't download a file and browse it offli
    • I dont use it regularly over my laptop, but sometimes it's quicker to switch on the PSP then sit there and wait for linux to boot up. It can be a bit cumbersome if you're going to be checking email and whatnot, but for just plain reference or time-killing, it's not too bad of a distraction. Of course, I don't think it's meant to be a full-on solution anyways. As for the podcasts, I don't even have an iPod so I've never actually gotten into the whole podcast movement. Wouldn't even know where to start if
    • I use the internet on it when I'm travelling.

  • You'll know when they release it... (Score:4, Funny)

    by Kris_J ( 10111 ) * on Tuesday December 06, 2005 @02:20AM (#14191509) Homepage Journal
    ...by all the graffiti advertising it on a wall near you.
  • A Sony spokeswoman has actually admitted they will stop crippling the PSP's RSS functionality if enough customers ask for it.

    We ask for it. Then...

    A Sony spokesperson admits they will use a better interface for their RSS reader if enough customers ask for it.

    So we ask for that. But users notice something strange. And then...

    A Sony spokesbot admits they will stop auto-deleting feeds that contain foul language if enough customers ask for it. "In independent polls conducted on Slashdot, we found most users
  • Does anyone know of the status of emulator games on PSP? I have heard that emulator games were somewhat blocked at one point by a firmware.

  • Hey Sony, instead of trying to hop on trendy bandwagons such as RSS for a video game system, allow homebrews again. No, seriously. Why would you turn it off? Why are you trying to implement RSS for a video game console, when you have much bigger fish to try? To me it just seems pointless, like trying to get your bicycle to compile C code. Sony could sell rinky-dink games that you can stuff on your duo card for 99 cents a pop, just like the cell phone companies do(just no subscriptions).

    Instead no, they lock
  • I'm pretty sure that a psp dev is gonna release a homebrew RSS Reader, thats better than the sony one.

    HOMEBREW 4EVER!!!!

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