Most PSP owners have been expecting Sony would announce something about
watching TV series on PSP. However, they didn’t say anything. Sony has
released an update that allowed you to watch cable TV, DVDs and DVR from
your home entertainment center anywhere you can access a broadband
connection. The only one downside is that it costs $350 to buy the
LocationFree TV base station.
[image: http://pavtube.com/images/promotion/tv2psp.jpg]
Well, if you don’t want to pay that much, and you just want to enjoy
the hit TV series like “Gossip Girl” or “Lost” and other TV shows,
things would be much simpler. All you need to do is to record TV shows
which you like with a DVD recorder and then convert DVD to PSP video
with a DVD Ripper or a DVD to PSP Converter. I myself use 'Pavtube DVD
to PSP Converter' (http://www.pavtube.com/dvd_to_psp/) because it rips
fast and converts DVD to video of excellent quality.
[image: http://www.pavtube.com/images/promotion/2_psp.jpg]
Sony has added PDFs that walk you through the process of using your PSP
with LocationFree TV. It looks like they are preparing for some sort of
announcement. I just hope a major price drop would be included.

I've summarized how to set up LocationFree TV and what features it
includes on the jump.

Set-up looks fairly easy:
Upgrade PSP
You can do this via USB connection to your net enabled computer or
WiFi.

Connect your base station
The base station has one cable in and two other audio/video ins for use
with a DVD player, DVR or VCR. There is also an IR blaster so you can
change channels or control the various devices connected.
Finally, you have to connect the base station to the internet. It looks
like the preferred method is a LAN cable.

Configure the TV channels and on-screen remote control
It looks like TV channel set-up is well put together; supporting both
the base stations internal tuner and the tuner of whatever device you
happen to plug it into.

Watching TV on Your PSP
To watch TV on the go you just need to make sure you turn your base
station on and that you can find a hotspot that you can access.

Once you hook-up to your base station via the network there are a
variety of things you can do. The PSP's TV watching options let you
adjust the video rate, get channel information, remotely switch input
from TV to one of the other A/V inputs you set up, switch audio for
bilingual broadcasts and, most importantly, bring up the on-screen
remote.

On Screen Remote
There are two types of remotes for the PSP, the standard TV remote and
the connected device remote.

The standard TV remote lets you change channels and control the volume
settings. The connected device remote lets you do a variety of things
depending on the device connected. If the connected device is made by
Sony you can bring up a remote similar to the one you would use at home,
otherwise you may not get full use out of the remote.

The problem is that anywhere I'd want to be able to watch TV on the go
probably doesn't have a hot spot I can access or I have to pay extra to
use it.


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