Video I-pod or PSP?

Since a new Sony PSP is coming out soon the price of the current PSP was recently lowered from $199 to $169 making it a pretty good deal. The new model will probably be a bit thinner, lighter, and have firmer controls so you might even decide to wait a little while for the new one if getting a deal on the current model isn’t compelling to you.

One of the things I’ve long complained about with the PSP was the difficulty of getting video on it. The process of getting video on my Palm Zire 72 was simple (though time consuming unless you have a super fast computer); in Palm desktop just select the videos you wish to put on your Palm and it downsamples and converts them for you. Getting video on the Sony PSP was always difficult and often when you tried to watch them they wouldn’t play anyway. The latest version of PSP Video9 seems to have solved the problem; I’ve already transfered some movies and TV shows to my PSP memory card for later viewing. It still isn’t as easy as putting them on my Palm pilot but now I can watch video on the much better PSP screen.

The Sony PSP also has WiFi and a web browser (though the browser doesn’t work with all web sites). You can web surf on a PSP which you can’t do on a Video iPod.

I do notice that the music I listen to on my iPod sounds better than when I use my PSP as a MP3 player so if listing to music is a high priority that might make you lean toward the iPod.