Portable Video

Here's a great way to make use of all those cheap DVDs being sold in tiangges. Notice how almost all the TV series are being sold openly. Name it they have it: Prison Break, 24, Grey's Anatomy, Lost, Heroes, House, 30 Rock, etc. If you've always wanted to watch them all but don't have the time, here's how.

• Buy a Sony PSP. You can get this very cheap at VirraMall greenhills, around 10K+, with 30++ games, and a 4 Gig Memory.
• If you're thinking about buying an ipod video or iTouch, forget it. The screen size of these devices don't come close to the PSP's. Believe me I've compared and used them. And don't even think about buying those portable car DVD players!
  
• Download a freeware DVD to PSP video converter. There are thousands of these. I use "Any Video Converter 1.0". Unfortunatey you cant find this freeware version anymore on the net, the makers have a higher version but its not free. I'll let you download my copy if you request it.
  
• You'll need a computer with a large enough space to at least store all your movies. Insert the DVD in the drive, copy the *VOB files to a folder on your HD. Launch the converter program and convert the VOB files to PSP format (this is an MP4 file).
• Connect the PSP to your PC, drag the MP4 files to the Video folder on the PSP. Make sure you also make a folder named after the movie on your PSP video folder.
• Note that you cant put all the MP4 files in the PSP since you might not have enough space especially if you also have some games in the memory stick. After watching, just delete the files and load the rest when you're home.
  
• Bring the PSP with you everywhere, bring earphones also. Using the PSP in the car is excellent. Just buy a PSP stand, which cost around 500 bucks and find a way to put it on your dash. I found the stand to be expensive, so I made my own. Its just a piece of wire which I fashioned into a stand and hooks into the aircon vent. I plan on making a YouTube video of my contraption someday. If your car stereo is ipod ready, there should be an auxiliary input. Otherwise, you just have to use long corded earphones.
• Tada! you can now watch all the shows you want. Happy viewing.