PSP goes all TV console on us... well, probably not
By Ryan Block 
posted Sep 6th 2005 1:26PM
posted Sep 6th 2005 1:26PM
Hey, we love a good theoretical gadget as much as the next guy: enter the I-C.bz PSP-to-TV/PS2 controller adapter.
You heard us right, with this computer-rendered product you would be able to run your PSP on a TV (don't forget to
engage that 16:9 switch, when available) and even crank with a PS2 controller. Man, Sony must be pretty glad this thing
doesn't actually, um exist (yet).
[Thanks, nofxosx]
Looks pretty cool. :)
And thus the circle will be complete with me playing SNES games on my tv with my PSP instead of my SNES.
Just keep your eye on Lik-Sang. I wouldn't be surprised if something like this showed up there sooner or later in all it's warranty voiding goodness...
This is probably pretty easy to implement... my guess is that they tapped the video signal off the LCD connector and route it to a signal processor that outputs normal video. I know Sony didn't want video out (so it wouldn't compete with their other products), but I don't think they were paranoid enough to encrypt the signals to the screen - the format is already different enough from composite that you'd need the signal processor, which makes it expensive.
I can't believe something like this doesn't exist already. Just seems logical to have TV-out enabled on all of these different handheld devices, PSP and DS.
About this product, I think not. They claim that you don't have to take anything apart for it to work, so we logically make some conclusions:
1) As far as anybody knows, you can't simulate button presses by sending data into the mini-usb or serial port near the headphone plug. This leaves this device responsible for taking digital input from a PS2 controller and manually actuating the buttons on a PSP. While this would make for an interesting project, it's not make it into a commercial product where it is inexpensive, fast, and reliable. You can pick two of these three and get them done. I can think of some interesting designs to get this done including using air bladders and the like, but it comes back down to a terrible latency issue without spending a lot of money on a solution.
2) You could not get a clean digital signal from the screen, so presumably the hood is actually housing some kind of camera or other screen-scanning device. This is an OK idea (and has been done by anyone trying to make PSP videos or shoot screenshots) but somehow I doubt again that you could make the technology inexpensive, fast, and good quality, as would be necessary to make this work properly.
In summary, such a device is entirely possible but really only two outcomes are likely with this. It will be either obscenely expensive and work well ($1000+) or it will be less expensive ($200 or so) and performance will be below abysmal.
I guess the other possiblity here is that they are doing everything internally and digitally inside the PSP and instead of not requiring the user to do any soldering/modification, they simply sell pre-modified units.
While they were at it, though, they ought to produce a screenshot-making version that would save a screenshot to a memory card or something. Game magazines and the like would pay big money for something like that!
It would be just like the GBA add-ons that output to TV. It would require you to put an adaptor on the ribbon cable that connected the LCD to the systemboard and basically split it into two video streams. One to the LCD, one to the TV-Out. You can pretty much do that with any device.
What is strange, is that the PSP didnt come with TV-Out to begin with. It only seems natural to plug the thing into the TV. Or at least come out with a PSP add-on for the PS2 to play the games on TV like the Gamecube had for GBA games.
Wouldn't work for the DS though, unless you wanted to stack two TVs on each other. I dont know how you could merge both screens output into one single split screen. Probably wouldn't work.
Total bollocks. You will never see a TV-out on the PSP, because it would enable piracy of movies produced on UMD.
hey or you could just play your PS2, they are the same games
I can't possibly imagine how this will work either, but:
The tv-out-means-piracy-of-UMD theory has one fatal flaw: nothing really is being released on UMD that isn't also released on DVD, and DVDs are incredibly easy to pirate. I can't imagine any pirate would waste their time with the UMD version.
And besides, on 1.0 and 1.50 psps you can dump the data off the UMD to your memory stick.
or we could look at this logically, think of what this would look like because of resolution differences trying to stretch a PSP image to a television screen with NTSC resolutions......it would look like crap
jordanbrad, I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.
the PSP is 480 lines, NTSC resolution is 480 visible lines. Assuming you're using 4:3 tvs, all they'll have to do is letterbox it. No scaling required.
I can envisage somethine that might be better.
Place the PSP in an overhead projector, rig up a "remote button presser" for the controls using bycycle brake cables and a bit of imagination. Close the curtains, turn the lights off, and you should have PSP goodness all over your wall, and no lag on button presses!
LOL, please tell me youre joking. This shows a lack of understanding of basic electronics on so many levels its frightening. No wonder there is so much money in marketing to you fools.
Seeing stuff like this makes me want to sell my psp, because I am afraid that sony will revise the psp with all these cool new features
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Coaxial Digital Audio out
Digital Video out
Peripheral port (support for ps2 controllers, etc)
Not sure if this debate should be re-opened. check out this
http://www.maxconsole.net/?mode=news&newsid=5088
TeamXtender with a possible TV out for PSP!!!
Well here is what you guys are looking for and its not stupid eather hope you like ill try to update you guys later on other things too.