PSP Firmware 2.6 - RSS, WMA support

[Titanio]

Sony has made available another firmware update, adding:

- [RSS Channel] has been added as a feature under [Network]

- [Simplified Chinese (GB18030)] and [Traditional Chinese (Big5)] have been added as options to [Encoding] under [View] in the [Internet Browser] menu bar*.
*Characters may be indistinct in some cases when these encoding options are selected.

- [Volume Adjustment] has been added as a feature to [Location Free Player]

- You can now download video data that supports copyright protection using the [Internet Browser]

- WMA has been added as a codec that can be played under [Music]. (This applies to music data saved on Memory Stick.)

I think thusfar the RSS feature supports audio only, and it streams but doesn't download to your memstick. That asides it looks really good, - you add the feeds to your channel list via the web browser, thereafter it'll automatically keep the list up to date with new content that's been added. It'll show the last 100 updates, I think, for any given channel. Podcasts on your PSP! You can see more here with the official guide: http://www.playstation.com/manual/psp/rss/en/index.html

 

[blakjedi]

Too bad the PSP DOES NOT support B3D's RSS implementation.

 

[Titanio]

Too bad the PSP DOES NOT support B3D's RSS implementation.

It's audo feeds only for now, I think. No text feeds or the like yet.

Also, about saving to a mem stick, you can still apparently do that through the browser anyway.

 

[mckmas8808]

Great I'll probably download it tonight.

 

[blakjedi]

It's audo feeds only for now, I think. No text feeds or the like yet.

Also, about saving to a mem stick, you can still apparently do that through the browser anyway.

how does that work exactly? I'm new to RSS.

 

[see colon]

i wonder if newer PSPs sold with firmware 2.6 pre-installed will carry the "Windows Media Plays For Sure: Audio" logo.

 

[Guden Oden]

They prolly won't change the cardboard box print design just because of a firmware update. Too costly I'd think, especially with the regularity Sony is adding new features.

 

[ban25]

The RSS feeds are a great new feature. I'm listening to dozens of podcasts on it now.