Sony May Open PSP To Other Content Players; Mobile Functions Mooted

Other content and entertainment companies may soon be able to use the Sony PSP’s UMD optical disc format. At present the only commercial UMD content on the market is the handful of games available for the PSP.
Sony will give companies access to the movie and music variants of the technology so that they might produce multimedia players that support UMD, Ken Kutaragi, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment said at a speech. The company will keep the game format to itself and thus stop other companies from developing competing gaming products.
“Many of the content publishers and studios and artists are eager to bring their content [to] and show their library on PSP,” he said.
AFP: Kutaragi said he wanted to give the PSP communication and web-browsing functions so it could compete against multi-function mobile phone handsets.

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