Sony hates America, PSP-200 is without S-Video for joo

[sieanr]

Garcian Smith said:

sieanr said:

Garcian Smith said:
Ehh. Who really uses S-video anymore, anyway?

The majority of the public who doesn't have an HD set

 If you don't have an HD set, then there's not much point to using the video-out feature in the first place. The PSP Slim outputs in standard widescreen, as I recall, so on older TV sets you'll be playing letterboxed games. The main appeal is that the Slim can output in 480p widescreen - something which us HDTV owners will benefit greatly from.

Aside from that, hasn't component-in been standard on even lower-end CRTs for years now? I bought a little $100 flatscreen CRT about a year back, and even that had component-in.

When outputting games, the entire image is cropped to the PSPs native rez - aka much smaller than the actual screen, even if it is HD. So both HD and SD would have severe cropping/letterboxing, although why they dont let SD output games is beyond stupid.

Not to mention the best the PSP can output is 480x640p, aka 4:3 which is not widescreen.

The thing is, they have the cable but wont release it stateside, which is almost as dumb as nintendo only release the GBA player in one color in the US.