Sony PlayStation Portable to support MP3

We'd reported earlier on Sony's shift to finally start supporting MP3 in some of their digital audio players. Now comes word that even better still their new portable gaming console, the PlayStation Portable will support MP3 as well. So in addition to supporting Sony's proprietary ATRAC format (for all five of you that use it), it will play all those pirated MP3 files that the rest of the world has been downloading (now the big question is whether they'll let us burn our own Universal Media Discs, which are the 1.8GB shiny pieces of plastic it uses). In the new spec sheet released, the PSP
will also support H.264/AVC format, a video codec which is to be used in the next generation of high-def DVD players.
Now all they gotta do is pop a hard drive in there, or offer one as an attachment, and you'd have a heck of a portable video and audio player.