Question regarding hooking up a PSP to a television

[2600Lives]

Okey dokey, so I got a PSP for Christmas (unusual, as I thought I was getting nothing, and it was quite a surprise!). Now, I got a set of Component cables (Y, GR, BL). So, I hook 'em up, and it doesn't work. If I set it to Interlaced, it works, but when I try to play a game (Crisis Core), it says I need to have "Progressive Scan" enabled. My tv is about 3 years old, and isn't HD or anything (component is as good as it gets). So, what's the deal? Am I even gonna be able to play on this tv? If not, that's a TOTAL rip-off, as component is still standard display, just the best you can get on a standard tv. Any help is appreciated!

[2600Lives]

Well, hell, I guess you DO have to have an HD tv. Guess I gotta spend more dough and get some composite cables. CRAP.

[warmachine]

I had the same problem, and there is a solution for it, if you have custom firmware.

If you can find someone that will flash your psp for you, you can try this.

 

http://www.psp-hacks.com/tag/fusa/

 

I spent a few hours trying it out and it works alright, but the novelty of it wears off quickly.

[+remowilliams]

If not, that's a TOTAL rip-off, as component is still standard display, just the best you can get on a standard tv. Any help is appreciated!

Actually 480p is a standard TV resolution, it's not HD. But yes, you still need a progressive scan capable set to use the features as intended by Sony. Not that it helps you much, but there are a number of technical reasons Sony did things the way they did in this area.

[Atariboy]

The PSP 3000 (The Ratchet and Clank bundle) should be able to display games via composite or component to standard definition displays. Do you have a 2000 model? The 2000's could only output games to a progressive scan capable television.

[shadow460]

Crisis Core does not work very well with FuSa. It runs at roughly one third the normal speed and it looks terrible on the big screen. FuSa is being worked on continually and the list of "working" games is growing, but it may take a while.

 

Your TV may support Progressive Scan at a lower resolution that what its set at currently. Then again, I've seen equipment with component hook ups that doesn't know anything about progressive scan (like my DVD player).

 

Oh, and HD =/= progressive scan. You can still have progressive scan at 640 x 480 or less. If you don't get it going on your TV, there's an adapter out there that'll hook component cables to a VGA monitor. Computer monitors are usually run in progressive scan modes by default.

[2600Lives]

Well, the tv is a CRT, so I doubt it has any sort of progressive scan feature. Every other thing I hook up via component works like aces (and looks great to boot). The 360, the PS2, my DVD player, and the Gamecube all work fine.

 

I'll just look around for some composite cables. Those will work ok, as composite isn't so bad, really.

[2600Lives]

Welll, wonderful. I go today and literally blow 20 bucks on the composite cables. Turns out, you STILL need a damn HD tv to output to it!! ARRRGH!

 

Stuff like this is why Sony is in the shitter. Everything is ungodly expensive, proprietary, and it SUCKS. Internal batteries with the Six-axis, 600 bucks for the PS3 when it first came out, and it STILL has yet to deliver any mindblowing games (MGS4 nonwithstanding). I'm so glad I went with the 360. Sony is ASS.

[+remowilliams]

I'm pretty sure that only video UMDs play over composite cables, not games. Again talking PSP2000 here as that's what I have.

 

As mentioned several times, 480p is not HD. And yes there are/were plenty of non HD standard def CRT TVs that support 480p video, unfortunately you don't seem to have one of them though.

[Atariboy]

Welll, wonderful. I go today and literally blow 20 bucks on the composite cables. Turns out, you STILL need a damn HD tv to output to it!! ARRRGH!

 

You should've read my post . I told you the PSP 2000 model can only output games via component cables to a 480p capable television.

 

Its the PSP 3000 models that can do it via composite or component to 480i televisions. The 2000's, which yours apparantly is, could only output video to 480i displays. Games were progressive scan only for tv/out on the 2000.

Edited December 27, 2008 by Atariboy

[shadow460]

The trade off with the 3000 is that it supposedly has an interlaced screen in the unit itself.

BTW, the 19 inch monitor I have hooked to this computer is a CRT, and it handles progressive scan just fine. Most CRT monitors do.

[Atariboy]

I would think virtually all CRT computer monitors would beyond old ones from the 1980s. But that doesn't do him much good, most computer monitors don't have component connections.

 

The PSP 3000's screen is nice, the interlacing is barely ever noticeable to me. The decreased blurring, improved colors, and the improved tv/out make it worthwhile.

Edited December 28, 2008 by Atariboy

[shadow460]

I would think virtually all CRT computer monitors would beyond old ones from the 1980s. But that doesn't do him much good, most computer monitors don't have component connections.

 

The PSP 3000's screen is nice, the interlacing is barely ever noticeable to me. The decreased blurring, improved colors, and the improved tv/out make it worthwhile.

 

You needs a converter to allow component connections to a PC monitor. the converters run about $30.