{"id":1411,"date":"2008-10-21T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2008-10-21T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T14:32:23","slug":"psp-3000-might-want-to-hold-that-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/psp-3000-might-want-to-hold-that-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"PSP-3000 … might want to hold that purchase …"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether you are someone who has never owned a PSP but were considering a new one, or someone who had the original and thought that the latest incarnation provided the differentiation that the PSP-Slim did not, or like me and start frothing at the mouth when the word ‘new portable electronics device’ are used in a sentence, you are aware that Sony’s new PSP-3000 has been released and is available in most stores. I’ve yet to grab one, and based on new reports I am going to hold off – and suggest you do the same. Read on to find out why.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear – there are two things selling the PSP-3000: built-in microphone and a brighter screen. Supposedly the screen is also more usable outdoors, but there has been limited quantitative data on that. Given that Sony has a nice wired headphone\/microphone set available for cheap already, the integrated microphone is a ‘nice to have’ feature, but not something to bring folks in to part with $200.<\/p>\n

The real ‘draw’ feature is the screen. Early reports showed it to be much brighter and more responsive than the original screen (which was the same for the PSP-1000 and PSP-2000), and the fast response times also eliminated the ghosting associated with fast-moving images. But as you see in the image below the cure for eliminating ghosting might be worse than the disease:<\/p>\n

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What you see in this image are scan lines from the refreshing of the image. While the ghosting is gone, the overall image quality is worse. There has been an outcry on the Playstation forums, and so far the only response has come today from Sony Japan. According to a representative, the interlacing-like lines are “hardware features” of the new LCD, and currently, there are no plans to fix it with a future software update since it is in the hardware.<\/p>\n

I will update this post with any new information I obtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you are someone who has never owned a PSP but were considering a new one, or someone who had the original and thought that the latest incarnation provided the differentiation that the PSP-Slim did not, or like me and start frothing at the mouth when the word ‘new portable electronics device’ are used in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}