PSP Slim Doesn't Play Nice With Some SDTVs?

[wraggster]

Via Kotaku



An angry Kotakuite sends in this rather upsetting photo for those of you with standard definition TVs. If you are planning on picking up a new PSP Slim and want to play games on your SDTV, you may want to rethink your purchase, check the back of your TV or at least decide how badly you really want to play PSP Slim on it. According to the photo, the only way you can do this is to play connected with a D-terminal AV cable or component cables and the content must be output in progressive scan. UMD movies seem to work fine, but games are a no go unless your TV supports progressive scan.

I did a little research and according to the all knowing internet (which is generally about as reliable as a Magic 8 Ball), only about 20% of homes in the US have HDTVs so you'd think that these companies would try and cater a little more to the other 80%. Of course this opens up all kinds of conspiracy theories about the game companies helping to support the sales of HDTV's and vice-versa. Still, something tells me there are going to be quite a few angry PSP/SDTV owners out there. Why? Because they can be.

[ICE]

My tv has component jacks but no progressive scan so all i can do is.. well.. everything but games. I have been watching movies through my psp to my TV though.

[Baboon]

That’s pretty poor compatibility on standard definition tv’s ...Sony have sort of shot themselves in the foot! lol

I really don’t see the point in “upgrading” to a slim, unless you have loadsa money to waste.

Its served me extremely well so I’ll stick with phat bad boy psp thank you very much.

[Prasoc]

dam it! i may have to rethink my decision to get a slim

[mcdougall57]

this was the only reason i was goin 2 get a slim

[mnuhaily22]

I have an HD TV, so no problem here:thumbup:

[V3N0M]

Well hopefully custom firmware can come through for us again! If custom firmware can do anything to fix this situation..

[ICE]

yeah im expecting to be able to play games on my sdtv soon.. maybe thats wishful thinking lol.

[ruiner9]

Has anyone tried plugging their Slim into the back of a DVD player that supports progressive scan and using it as a "pass-thru" to the TV? Maybe that will suffice to fool the PSP into thinking it's connected to an HDTV and the DVD player will output a usable SDTV signal. I don't have a slim, so I can't test this, but it's a sound theory IMO...

[r-complex]

You can always buy a PSP 2 VGA adapter and a 20 inch CRT for around $75.00 or so. That would seem to the cheapest solution for us who don't have a HDTV! I'd be another way to recycle all those CRTs instead of them ending up in a landfill!