James Delahunty
26 Sep 2004 19:30
It has been revealed that Sony's upcoming Playstation Portable (PSP) will support the MP3 format in its audio player. It will also support ATRAC3, which is Sony's proprietary music format and is used in the Sony Connect music store, minidisks and Sony hard-drive music players. Sony revealed last week that it was reconsidering supporting the MP3 format in its music playback devices, a move that has come with much criticism, since competing devices such as Apple's iPod support the more popular MP3 format.
The PSP will support video playback of the H.264/AVC format which is an advanced video codec with a wide range of settings and is set to be used in the next generation of DVD systems. It's not clear, however, whether this indicates that the system will be able to play H.264 video off Memory Stick storage devices, or if it just means that Sony has chosen the standard as the compression format for movies on its UMD discs.
Source:
GameIndustry.biz