Playstation Pornable

The PSP is for PORN!!! Well, apparently it will be in Japan.

Several Japanese film companies have announced their upcoming releases of adult movies on the Playstation Portable's (PSP) UMD format. While Sony would probably not allow really explicit content in games, apparently this hold does not stand when it comes to movies. Those in the know also speculate that past learnings in the Betamax-VHS format battle may have influenced Sony's stand-offish approach in this matter. During the war between tape formats, VHS was helped greatly by a huge explosion of adult films on the format- Betamax, held by Sony, had no such 'artsy' support. Eventually VHS killed of Betamax and the rest is history.

Whether this will eventually spread in US PSPs is questionable- but then again, when recordable UMDs and ways to encode video on the PSP format becomes available, people can make their own porn, right?

In my opinion though, there are better ways to have porta-porn (not that I do such things) or bring any kind of video of interest with you anywhere. While the PSP has a HUGE screen, it's a bit on the large side and a bit unwieldy to be brought around just anywhere, or to be used as an impromptu video player. Plus, battery life and the fact that UMDs will are relatively large and delicate is pretty unwieldy.
That's why I absolutely love my O2 XDA II Mini... Not that I actually have porta-porn with me at any given time... um... yeah. Heh.