psp owners: a word of advice on durability

[darkblu]

avoid using the cleaning cloth supplied with the NA value pack!

i don't know what it is made of but i witnessed how a brand-new psp (with zero faulty pixels) got its first scar on its screen after the very first gentle wipe performed with the supplied cloth, which had been removed from its wrap less than 5 secs prior to that (i.e. ~0% possibility of it having cought any hard dust particles)

from my personal experience with my own psp, above only confirms my suspicions - i managed to induce enough, though tiny, scratches on my psp screen through predominantly using the supplied cleaning cloth.

bottonline: use a proven quality cleaning cloth - usually the ones that come with expensive glasses tend to be of very high quality. since i started using one of those i haven't noticed any new scratches on my psp screen.

*me remembers those talks b3d'ers had before the psp release 'bout sony using some durabe coating of the screen* muahahaha!...

 

[digitalwanderer]

Does any PSP owner here NOT use a screen protector? We're on our second already, but I won't let the kids use the PSP without it on.

 

[darkblu]

well, i personally do not use one, as i've been unable to find one that does not degrade the image quality below my tollerance. regardless, the psp is not a touch-screen device, so hypotetically it should do without one - just a cloth for wiping off the accidental durt/dust from the screen and a hard case to keep it from shocks should do*. in practice, though, things are very different - you a) either coat the screen in protectors, scarificing your full quality experience with it, or b) you put up with the minor scars which may or may not be distracting under different light angles/conditions.

* had the "opprtunity" to test the sturdiness of the logitech case - it's fine - a drop from ~70cm height on a hard wood floor, featuring a couple of flips and bounces inflicted exactly nothing to the device inside.

 

[Teasy]

How can the screen scratch so easily? I mean a cloth can easily scratch it? Is that really good enough for a portable device?

 

[darkblu]

How can the screen scratch so easily? I mean a cloth can easily scratch it?

depends on the cloth (see my original post), but re the one that comes with the value pack - yes. though i should admit the scratches it leaves are mostly minimal, and usually visible only on a black screen background and under sertain reflection angles - the extreme reflectivity of the psp's screen coating plays a significant part in that. on a more matte surface those scrathces would have been virtually non-detectable, or just not occurring.

is that really good enough for a portable device?

apparently not. a portable's screen should not only remain intact after a wipe with a cloth, but also withstand contact with some hard dust particles, to the least. it'd be nice if some accessories vendor came up with a front plate substitute made a bit more durable, and not necessary with that high refelctivity. then again, i've not opened up my psp yet, so i'm still to see how viable a front plate repalce would be, if at all.

 

[hey69]

i personally do not use one either.
i blow the eventual dust of , the rest i clean with wet cloth of glasses. (0.8euro for 10pack) one big wipe and its shiny as new.

wet baby wipers are also usefull but you have to dry clean your psp afterwards because it leaves a litle on the screen

 

[Farid]

apparently not. a portable's screen should not only remain intact after a wipe with a cloth, but also withstand contact with some hard dust particles, to the least. it'd be nice if some accessories vendor came up with a front plate substitute made a bit more durable

Yeah, and it would be made of one of the few matter that resist micro-scratches. Diamond.


There's no resonably priced matter that can avoid micro-scratches.
And the PSP screen, indeed, has a hard coating, but no, sadly, it's not made of CNT or diamond.

 

[darkblu]

There's no resonably priced matter that can avoid micro-scratches.
And the PSP screen, indeed, has a hard coating, but no, sadly, it's not made of CNT or diamond.

well, given their present "hard" coating is so susceptible to micro-scratches (includingly from the supplied cloth) they could have made that coating a tad more matte, no?

 

[jvd]

they should have included a screen protecter with the value pack

 

[Teasy]

Yeah, and it would be made of one of the few matter that resist micro-scratches. Diamond.

Erm yeah the only thing more resistent to scratches than the PSP screen is......... diamond

I've whiped my DS screens with my T-Shirt, a towel, socks lol all sorts and never got a single scratch.

 

[PC-Engine]

Same here, in fact I always wipe my cellphone screen with my shirt or pants and it has never developed any hairline scratches. I think SONY was basically blowing hot air when they said PSP uses a hardcoating. It's amazing people still fall for the hype...especially the B3Ders.

My guess is that SONY quietly skimped on the hardcoat to lesson the money bleeding on each unit sold because there is no way a hardcoat will allow scratching of the screen with a harmless clean piece of cloth. So now the list includes, scratched screens, dead pixels, stuck buttons, poor battery life, and 222MHz clock lock.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Hard substances=brittle. A glass screen would be cheap and resist a lot of scratching, but I guess they don't include it for fear of fractures from impact (being dropped). So I'd go with a washable polyurethane cover that attaches by static or something similar.

 

[Farid]

Erm yeah the only thing more resistent to scratches than the PSP screen is......... diamond

I've whiped my DS screens with my T-Shirt, a towel, socks lol all sorts and never got a single scratch.

That's the indeniable proof that DS is superior to PSP.

Well, only your DS though, because mine have micro-scratches.

Micro-scratches on thoses kinds of materials are, I repeat, virtually impossible to avoid.

But remember that we're talking about micro scratches here, they are not visible and obvious scratches. You can see them when the screen is turned off and only from certain angles and well positioned light sources.

PS: You really use socks to clean your LCD devices?

 

[mech]

I've wiped my PSP with tissues, the supplied cleaning cloth, my sunglasses' cleaning cloth, I don't have a screen protector, I carry it everywhere with me in its bag, and I'm yet to get a noticable scratch on it.

Yes, it probably has microscratches, by why look for something that you can't normally see when it's only going to bug you? Like the others said, there's no way to avoid it, no matter what the device.

PC-Engine, again, you're ranting about something you have no clue about, so why not just pipe down now and save yourself more embarrassment?

 

[PC-Engine]

PC-Engine, again, you're ranting about something you have no clue about, so why not just pipe down now and save yourself more embarrassment?

This thread was started by someone who experienced micro scratches from using the included cleaning cloth. If you have evidence that this cannot happen then feel free to convince everyone. Until then why not just pipe down now and save yourself more embarrassment like the many times before?

 

[jvd]

the ds really needs a protector on the bottom screen. I go through protectors like water . I'm on my 6th

 

[Snyder]

Same here, in fact I always wipe my cellphone screen with my shirt or pants and it has never developed any hairline scratches. I think SONY was basically blowing hot air when they said PSP uses a hardcoating. It's amazing people still fall for the hype...especially the B3Ders.

My guess is that SONY quietly skimped on the hardcoat to lesson the money bleeding on each unit sold because there is no way a hardcoat will allow scratching of the screen with a harmless clean piece of cloth. So now the list includes, scratched screens, dead pixels, stuck buttons, poor battery life, and 222MHz clock lock.

Please. Don't derail yet another thread into a flamefest.

 

[Kolgar]

they should have included a screen protecter with the value pack

Post of the thread!

Would have been a good idea - saving new customers from inflicting damage on their beautiful new PSPs, while teaching them that a screen protector is a necessary part of the care and feeding of their PSPs.

I'm only on my second protector, and while it's not perfect (it's the Pelican brand), my screen is not only intact, but flawless.

 

[Teasy]

Vysez

I almost included a "this is not about DS vs PSP" disclaimer in my post

I know we're talking about micro scratches but micro scratches caused by a clean cloth (one made to clean the PSP screen). Which IMO is a little worrying.

Its not only my DS that hasn't got any of these scratches either. Though I'm sure some will have scratches, the screen isn't invincible A clean cloth isn't going to do it though.

BTW yeah I really used a sock to clean the touch screen on my DS once It was the only bit of cloth I had near me at the time.

 

[mech]

PC-Engine, again, you're ranting about something you have no clue about, so why not just pipe down now and save yourself more embarrassment?

This thread was started by someone who experienced micro scratches from using the included cleaning cloth. If you have evidence that this cannot happen then feel free to convince everyone. Until then why not just pipe down now and save yourself more embarrassment like the many times before?

If you look closely at any surface you'll see micro-scratches, because they're inevitable. How much time have you spent with a PSP? Do you have one? Do you take it everywhere with you? Have you inspected the screen after wiping it with a cloth? I sincerely doubt you have any experience to be commenting on the durability of the PSP screen (which, btw, is excellent).