Christopher Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Anyone been to "Bookmarks" within the PSP's new web-browser that comes with Japanese firmware v2? There's a link that goes to a redirect page, titled "PSP" (www.ps-portable.net, with a unique look for PSP's only) that features four countries listed: Europe, Japan, Korea and North America. It appears that Japan and Korea are the only two available for selection, and to my pleasant surprise I found nicely made websites within the respective links; mostly information of firmware, games, movies, pricing and so forth. I assume that one of the principal reasons firmware v2 hasn't been distributed yet in North America is because they are still working on a portal for the United States that will contain content such as this when firmware v2 goes live here.I did find a few neat images worth mention within the Japanese site. Remember, what will be said now is for when you're viewing the site within the PSP. This will not work via PC.Go to the PSP bookmark in your PSP browser. Click on Japan. If you click on the fourth link on the right (in the grey box) within the Japanese site, and then click on the middle link that says "SCEJ PSP (PlayStation Portable) TITLE LINE UP", there's a neat page view a few games that will be debuting soon. Of course, all of the text is in Japanese. Regardless, within this page there is a link that says "Download". Click on that, and then scroll down..you'll see a few backgrounds that look pretty keen and are made just for the PSP (I like the first one best, personally ). Poke around a bit; there's quite a bit to see.I tried to access the backgrounds via an Internet browser on PC, but I just get redirect pages. I predict more PSP-only, or PSP-optimized websites in the future with stronger media offerings - perhaps even to the extent of Connect's music offerings, just for PSP. It would be interesting if there was an entire music service optimized and accessible for the PSP, and it would justify ATRAC in the sense of "small file sizes with extremely high quality sound" (ATRAC.com). One of the true merits of ATRAC3plus is that there is a very small filesize for all bitrates, and we could see a new meaning to the old coin of buying music online - how many ring tones are sold through phones each year?Connect already has a page for PSP's, available here: http://www.connect.com/psp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted August 1, 2005 Report Share Posted August 1, 2005 Ooh nice find! Ty for poking around, no pun intended... I should convert some of my web pages for viewing on the PSP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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