HK Electronics 2005: New PSP to TV Adapter (without modification)

October 16th, 2005, 16:55 Posted By: wraggster

News from Lik Sang

We were recently reporting about a soon to be released TV Adapter solution for the Sony PSP. The main concern with that model was that it would require you to open your precious machine and voiding of the warranty de facto.

A Taiwanese company at the Hong Kong Electronics show, pulled Lik Sang behind their closed curtain and showed off their new TV Adapter project, which doesn't require opening the PSP system at all and therefore will be easier to use and not void the warranty. The same manufacturer already developed the famous TV de Advance a couple of years ago, a TV Adapter for the GBA.

This new peripheral takes a completely different approach and clips on top of your PSP screen, with two screws to fit at the back of the handheld (in these two holes you can see on the top of the UMD drive). Some sort of pyramid grows from the base, with a precision lens and mirror system at the top, capturing the image and light, in a similar way a scanner or camera would. It then converts it into a video signal that is sent through video leads going from the adapter to your TV set. While that sounds complicated, we were quite impressed with the result.

There was only a preliminary prototype that could be demonstrated to Lik Sang in a private room, and we were required not to take any picture. After flashing the image of what we saw in our limited brain memory, we spent a bit of time playing around with Photoshop in order to render the concept for you.

The first evaluation samples are expected to be available in November, when mass-production is also supposed to start. The retail price is expected to be slightly over 100 US$, and Gametech is rumored to be in line for a Japanese launch of the product by the middle of December. Gametech was already the distributor of the TV de Advance for GBA in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Awesome news eh

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