Play Station Portable (A.K.A) Possibilities Unlimited !!!!

SONY, the name says it all!!! Or does it? That’s something that’s always debatable.

The PS1 really brought about a revolution in the world of gaming, but then Man always wants more and better. So out came the XBOX, whoop!!! And did Sony stop, no way out came the PS2 (I just love this console. It was only after I bought this marvel did my pocket feel a lot better, cos I never did need to constantly keep updating my computer to play the latest games :) ) Microsoft decided to give it right back , and Bang !!!! XBOX 360, It’s still being constantly update, to fight back against Sony’s PS3.

That’s a brief glimpse of the console war between Sony & Microsoft ; Or is it ??? I did miss out on Little chap, who came out somewhere in between the PS2 & the PS3. All of you put your hands together for the Play Station Portable ( PSP).

This device is seriously a marvel. My salutes are all directed towards Shin'ichi Ogasawara, the subsidiary of Sony Corporation, who first designed the PSP. The PSP is a perfect & complete personal multimedia device that one can dream off.

Things it can do, Loads of stuff!!!

Play Video’s and full length Movies
Play high quality audio, supporting the MP3 & WMA formats.
A great album to view digital photos.
Record Video
Click Photos.
Play Flash Files
Browse the net
Use it as a GPS
And of course, as the name says it, PLAY Games :)

I’m sure with the constant firmware updates, the possibilities seem infinite!!!

I simply enjoy watching movies when I am lying on my bed in the night, it’s so comfortable & so personalized. I feel like it’s my own theater. The music being awesome, with a FM transmitter attached to the earphone jack, my car rocks with the beat of the music, when I tune to the frequency of the transmitter. If I do need to buy a new GPS receiver for my car, that a whooping 10000Rs for me. The PSP lets me use it as a GPS with an small additional accessory that costs me less that 2000Rs. The games are awesome. GTA tops my list of favorites. Thanks so much Rockstar.

There is one thing that makes me really irritated with the PSP. Any guesses ??? I’m sure any PSP user would share this with me about what I hate about it, The UMD. Sony’s once again done it, made a fool of itself, introducing a new standard of storage & then keeping it closed. The format seems to by dying a slow but steady death. They are exorbitantly priced, and when it comes to movies on the UMD, a DVD’s seems to have everything that the UMD has to offer & more. The only advantage that I see is the portability that it offers.

Mem sticks Pro duo, are so expensive, it seems crazy that these guys offer you a optical drive & don’t give you media or a burner to burn your music & pictures on it Huh !!! Probably some Japanese marketing strategy that they have up their sleeve. Most stores in the US have already pulled off UMD movies from their shelf & the ones that still have them, seem to have offers where , you buy one & get the other one free !!!!

Well I don’t really wanna go on criticizing the UMD on & on, cos I’m quite sure there is loads & loads of stuff on the net with criticisms heaped on the UMD, that if I had to make one straight line with all the criticisms, then probably the circumference of the earth would seem microscopic :)

What about homebrew & iso’s??? Well that’s something that quite sensitive, that’s better left alone. Cos if I do support it or not, there goanna be a lot of comment s both in favor of it & against it.

I personally feel that both Sony & people who’ve made homebrew possible ( Dark_Alex, Noobz & all the other great ones) deserve a huge applaud. Progress is going to be there only if there’s a challenge & that’s what the great ones give Sony :)

Other things that I don’t really liked about Sony & really appreciated with Microsoft, was their target for the market in India. There are loads of PSP freaks here. Thanks to once again Sony’s dumb marketing strategies, people in the subcontinent are forced to buy their consoles from markets in US, Europe & Japan. Infact Sony India’s website, which hosts the section for gaming is so slow to even open, that makes my blood boil. The XBOX’s there in every store in any mall that you can enter. (I probably may just switch to a XBOX if Sony does not change it’s marketing strategy in India)

There is a great site called http://www.yourpsp.in/ for people in the subcontinent. I am quite sure that its way more organized and dedicated to the console than Sony’s website itself.

Well to conclude it all, the PSP is one awesome marvel that truly a great mastermind comprehended & made it a reality in time!!!!

Copyright © Dennis D Maliekal

Look at the main page of the blog for more on the PSP & Other Cool Stuff, the link to main page is THIS

Read more...

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

The names out, the dates out!!!! So what’s gonna be happen in the book???? I’ve been a dedicated follower of the Harry Potter books for nearly 7 years now. The 7th book is something that every die hard Harry Potter fan is not talking about, not discussing about; It’s something that we are dreaming about, breathing about, wondering about.

What’s gonna happen? Is Harry going to see his last daylight by the end of the book ? Will it be Voldemort and Harry reaching for final breaths of their life together ? The answer …..

J.K Rowling :)

All I can say is what I think would be possible in the book, the probability of things happening in way that would bring a smile on every Potter fan’s face, but then again Rowling’s got a uncanny way of twisting things beyond what most people could imagine. Look at what happened to Dumbeldore in the end of the Half Blood Prince, Sirius black in the Order Of The Phoenix.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Voldemort as the survivor in the final battle ( most of you would hate me to have said that ) but that’s what Rowling seems given us in the past 3 books. DEATH!!!! Death of people that we least likely expect to die.

Now what would happen in the 7th book? I guess that it might start of somewhere in Hogwarts itself, with Potter, Ron and Hermione returning back to the Burrow. Things seem to be in hustle bustle cos everyone’s preparing for the wedding (Bill and Fleur). Their will still be very tense moment during all the preparations.

The members of the order, would come by every now and then, report of weird disappearances, murders, everything that makes my skin creep!!!!

A chapter that would be dedicated for the wedding , The wedding goes on , with all the lovely couples dancing and making merry , Potter’s gonna go for Ginny again ;-) .

Everything seems to be going well and all of a sudden their’s commotion, blood curling screams and panic everywhere. The death eaters are here. Voldemort now knows for sure, that there is no great power called Dumbeldore to protect them, and on his command the death eaters attack. MadEye, Lupin, Tonks all the Aurours are at battle, with some of them creating port keys for the safety of folks attending the wedding ..

Harry is yakend away by one of the aurors to escape using a port key, but Harry is all set to get Ginny and only then leave. So there is a near miss for his life, but he eventually escapes.

The minor battle is done and then it’s time for Harry to visit Godric hollow, where everything began. He by chance find’s a Hocrux in the ruins. Viola, Destroys it, but then again this is not so easy a task, cos Voldemort would have taken a lot of care to hide the part of his cursed soul !!!!

The book would be about the search for horcrux, with a lot of near death experiences. The probability that either Ron or Hermionie or Ginny sacrifice their life in order to save Harry’s is also workable. Snape would eventually die at the hands of either Harry or Wormtail, cos wormtail is somebody who was treated real bad by Snape and also maybe he would have a change of heart and avenge Sirius’s death!!!! He also owes Harry for sparing his life in book 3.

The final battle would probably be at Godric’s Holow, cos that’s where it all started, that’s where it should all end. A lot many deaths, a lot of sadness. I’m sure of one thing, that the world water level would definitely increase on the day the 7th book comes out, cos a lot many die hard potter fans would shed tears for the slain hero, who’d die as someone who conquered the Dark lord!!!!!!

PS: The curious ones about the Photo at the right. J.K. Rowling , the great one who's imagination triggerd my Imagination to write this article.

Please Post A Comment If You Liked The Post :)

Please take a moment to express your view of this blog, it's a simple vote to tell me how good my blog is. The Poll Link is on the left side of the page embedded in the sidebar

Look at the main page of the blog for more on Harry Potter & Other Cool Stuff, the link to main page is THIS

Read more...