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new psp vs ipod touch for video quality

by scifiiman Oct 10, 2007 8:38AM PDT

ignoring everything else, what device has the best quality for video playback. brightness, color, contrast, etc. Is is the new PSP Slim or the new IPod Touch?

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differences
by JonTitor Oct 10, 2007 9:05AM PDT

between the PSP and Touch it's arguably the PSP
the touchscreen's are usually inferior due to an added layer that lowers picture quality, but the Touch has a glass screen to make up for that
Resolution wise Touch wins marginally, PSP is WQVGA while the Touch is HVGA
however on widescreen movies it wouldn't make a difference and PSP would win because it's screen is .8" bigger
PSP also wins on color, the Touch I believe is 18-bit versus PSP's 24-bit

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res
by scifiiman Oct 10, 2007 10:08AM PDT

is it also true that the psp slim can play video in full dvd format 720 compared to the old psp only playing up to 480. Or did i read wrong?

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not sure
by JonTitor Oct 10, 2007 10:33AM PDT

I haven't heard about that, DVD format is 480P
720P refers to HD formats, and there aren't many players that do that, the only one I know is the 605WiFi
The PSP is a powerful machine, so I wouldn't be surprised if it could

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ghosting
by scifiiman Oct 14, 2007 11:50AM PDT

one other thing i heard was that ghosting on the new PSP is much better than the old one, i like to play videos both off the UMD and off the memory stick, is this a noticable improvement?

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ghosting
by JonTitor Oct 14, 2007 1:58PM PDT

The problem applies to games more than videos because of the higher frame rate

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