The PSP Gets a New Internet Video Upgrade Company: SCEA Product: PSP firmware update, version 2.80 For today’s on-the-go consumers, viewing content on demand is the ultimate convenience – that's why Sony Computer Entertainment America has added support for videos delivered via Really Simple Syndication (RSS) to the PSP® (PlayStation®Portable) system. The new feature, which puts videos from the Web in the palm of your hand, is part of the latest PSP firmware update, version 2.80, now available for download. More and more Web sites are utilizing RSS feeds to push video content to consumers. With today’s announcement, the PSP system enables users to check out the latest news clips, video podcasts, or popular user-created videos, wherever and whenever. After updating the firmware, PSP owners simply use the device’s Web browser to view any site offering RSS video and then subscribe to its feed by clicking on an icon. The PSP system’s RSS Channel will be populated with the site’s video feed and updated content will be available anytime the device is connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi. Users can save the video content directly to their Memory Stick Duo™. With the PSP system’s high-resolution widescreen LCD, RSS videos have never looked so good on a portable device. The new functionality further expands the PSP system’s video capabilities, which also include the recently added TiVoToGo® feature for viewing TV programs transferred from a TiVo digital video recorder. Video is one of the key multimedia features that make the PSP the first truly integrated handheld entertainment system to offer multiple applications, with games as its core driver. The 2.8 firmware upgrade also includes a demo version of World Tour Soccer ‘06, which is expected to be a popular download following the recent World Cup. The game demo, RSS video feature and other PSP 2.8 firmware updates can be wirelessly downloaded directly to a PSP system using a Wi-Fi connection; downloaded to a PC from http://www.us.playstation.com/psp and transferred to a PSP system through a USB cable; or installed using upcoming UMD™ software. -Geck0, GameVortex Communications AKA Robert Perkins Related Links: Download the PSP 2.8 Firmware Upgrade