The PSP: my new god

I'm a whore for shiny, shiny toys and the PSP is the latest of these to win my heart. After an unfulfilling relationship with my GBA (once the initial passionate throes of Advance Wars had passed) I was lukewarm towards hand-held consoles. The PSP has won me back, but this has little to do with the games. Admittedly I'm likely to lose several years of my life to Tony Hawks Underground 2 Remix (if only in typing out the sodding name) and Metal Gear Acid is nicely quirky but the real killer is the ability to port movies onto the device for viewing on the move. With the help of a $15 shareware program (PSPWare from Nullriver - Macs only of course) this was surprisingly painless and the compression rate is impressive (a 300MB avi file went down to 50Meg) as is picture quality. 20 quid UMD movies are rather excessive (though Lovefilm are now doing UMD rentals) but the ability to have a large chunk of my bittorrent goodies to watch on the move is powerful stuff indeed.

I'm sure I'll find reason to moan in time but as of the moment the PSP is the best thing ever. Fact.