Quick Tips on the Great Sony PSP

You can buy Sony PSP UMD disks with either movies or games on them online. But wouldn't it be great if Sony would put a movie on one side and a game on the other? Or even 2 movies or 2 games, one on each side. That was the nice thing about records and cassette tapes. You got something on both sides. It wouldn't be nearly as painful paying for UMD's if there were two sides, with something on both.

Download

It's up to you to decide if you want to collect and buy Sony PSP movies on UMD disks or download them. You'll probably find it is much cheaper to download the movies yourself, either from your DVDs or video files on your computer or downloaded straight from an online source. Although it is cheaper initially to do it this way, the expense comes with having to replenish your Memory Sticks once they fill up with the files you want to keep. Of course, you can upload files to your computer to make room for new ones but you'll still want to back up those files.

You may need to download software for the PSP in order for you to play some movies and music. There are free and pay offers all over the internet for games, movies and music but PSP Blender has all three. You can download full versions of all 3 for a one-time fee of $37. You first download the files to your PC and from there to your PSP.

PSP video 9 is a favorite of many who download software for the PSP. It is free video conversion software that is user friendly and performs a major step in obtaining movies for your PSP.

On DVD

There's certainly more than one choice no matter which cost factor you choose. We'll go over one of each here. Sony's Media Manager, which sells for $19.95 to download the software and $29.95 for the packaged version, will transfer the video files to your PSP. However, it won't "rip" the movie off of your DVD. Meaning it won't copy the files from your DVD to your computer. Once you have "ripped" or "burned" or simply copied those files, then the Media Manager will download the DVD movie to your PSP.

There are several "rippers" you can get for free or you can certainly buy one. Interestingly enough, it only takes a click of the mouse for the Media Manager to search for and download your video files to your PSP, yet it will not get the files off of your DVD.

The PSP is a great way to have all your favorite DVD movies by your side though. Not to mention the gift you could make to someone else by presenting them with one gadget that has all their favorite movies on one place. Just think what you download movies to your PSP!

The Music

Once you learn how to download music to your PSP, you will have a virtual music library at your fingertips. You will need a lot of room on your memory sticks though. If you just keep your favorite music close to you this way it will be more than worth it. You may not want to copy every CD you have in the house as this could take up valuable space on the memory stick and become quite expensive. If you're into the gaming side of the PSP very much, you'll want to save your games with your progress too.