Sony not selling S-Video cables for PSP Slim in US

We've got all ideas that this tidbit won't infuriate too many users, but nevertheless, Sony will reportedly not be bringing S-Video cables to America for its PSP Slim. According to GameInformer, Sony wanted to "streamline its selection, giving owners a choice between cables supporting composite, the de facto standard, and component inputs." Interestingly, both of the cables that will be for sale here will cost the same $19.99, and if you're somehow still using a television that rocks an array of S-Video ports but not a single component input, the import option is always there.

[Via PSPFanboy]

[AndrewNeo @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:29PM]

Why do they even offer component? It's not like the video is HD.

[JohnTitor @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:30PM]

it's not HD but you need component for Progressive scan

[rickane58 @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:10PM]

Also, even non HD video looks better in component, because the color saturation is much more flush.

[JohnTitor @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:31PM]

"the import option is always there"
great advice, except you could just go to ebay and get a Composite to S-Video adapter for $.01

[AndrewNeo @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:33PM]

Not exactly the same thing, as composite splits the video down the line differently than S-Video does. The point isn't about the connector, but the slightly higher video quality. (Coax, composite, s-video, component, vga, dvi/hdmi)

[JohnTitor @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:36PM]

ok so adapting it won't fix like dot-crawl, but if you cared about that much you wouldn't have been dumb enough to buy a TV with only S-Video ins

[J. Evans Turner @ Oct 4th 2007 3:26PM]

No. S-Video splits the chroma and luma signals. The resulting image is vastly superior. For interlaced SDTV signals, there is no perceptible difference between S-Video and Component. S-Video is FAR better than composite. Adapting them is just stupid.

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:35PM]

STUPID choice.

#1 if you're gonna sell a device touting its ability to playback on a SDTV, you should provide cables so I might do this out of the box.

#2 what really bothers me is all these cables are made in China for less than $2 but they demand upwards of $20 in most retailers for them.

When I go back to China, I should stock up on these cables and HDMI and Composites and sell them on EBAY.

[Constable Odo @ Oct 3rd 2007 11:40PM]

Look, it's a business. Companies are out to make money to fatten their pockets and the investors pockets. You would understand if you ran your own business. I would hardly think that the majority of people are hooking their PSPs up to TVs. They can use a PS2 or PS3 for that purpose or doesn't that make any sense to you (or whoever wants those cables put in every box).

[sD @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:42PM]

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-14-71-io-49-en.html

[Arthur Hall @ Oct 3rd 2007 10:48PM]

"the import option is always there."

Exactly, Just like you can import from lik sang, right? Oh wait, Sony put them out of business.

I don't know how a huge company like sony can keep on making these crummy business decisions.

[John @ Oct 4th 2007 12:11AM]

Crummy decision making is apparently what they teach you in MBA school.

[TKWarrior @ Oct 4th 2007 12:44AM]

Having to jump through hoops to get the right cable to actually watch video on a TV as advertised... Who do they think they are, Apple?

[Alex Whiteside @ Oct 4th 2007 5:26AM]

Could be worse. In PAL regions, not only is there no RGB SCART cable (the "de facto" component video standard for connecting things since DVD players launched, more or less) but the composite cable can't actually output PAL video. It's like they designed the thing for Japan and didn't bother about anywhere else. It's a very "1990s Nintendo" kind of approach.

[J. Evans Turner @ Oct 4th 2007 3:32PM]

It's understandable. The PSP is 60hz, NTSC-J and NTSC are 60hz. Because the PSP is battery-powered, there is no reason to underclock the entire system to synch with the electrical frequency of PAL regions as past game consoles did.

[J. Evans Turner @ Oct 4th 2007 3:35PM]

If I have heard correctly, most modern TVs in PAL territories are engineered to support 60hz signals anyway for compatibility with American / Japanese devices.

[jshjpp @ Nov 1st 2007 2:21PM]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESEX:IT&item=330182852107&_trksid=p3984.cSELL.m315.lVI