Ten days after initially saying it would be ready , Sony has yet to release the promised North American version of the 2.0 firmware update for its PlayStation Portable ( PSP ) handheld gaming console table . Already uncommitted in Japan , the 2.0 update supply North American PSP users with Web entree , documentation for raw medium types and surety enhancements .

First introduced in North America in March , Sony ’s PSP plays game and views movies . It put in saved plot selective information on a Memory Stick Duo Pro card , and can also use that carte to view digital photos , movies and listen to digital music . The PSP can also tie to a Mac or PC using a built - in USB 2.0 port .

Several Mac applications have come up up to take advantage of this USB connectivity , let in iPSP , PSPWare and PocketMac for PSP . And because the PSP can consider video downloaded from computers , Elgato ’s EyeTV software package and Kinoma Producer have also added PSP export support .

The 2.0 firmware update was released in later July in Japan . It adds a built - in World Wide Web web browser that allow PSP users to view Web Page using the PSP ’s build up in Wi - Fi wireless networking documentation .

Also new in the 2.0 release is a Wallpaper feature , novel graphic format support , support for unprotected AAC and WAV audio file , and support for H.264 ( Advanced Video Codec)-compressed telecasting — though it appear dependent on specific decoder only Sony provides .

Sony also improved security in the 2.0 release to further foil the efforts of “ homebrew ” coders and emulation software engineer , who had managed to get their own software code turn on the platform in earlier releases . WPA - PSK wireless security measures was also added to the 2,0 release .

PSP firmware can be updated by one of three method : Using the connection Update option from the PSP ’s user interface ; downloading it to a Mac or microcomputer , copying it to the memory card and running it ; or run it from a UMD disc . Some impatient North American customer have download the 2.0 update from Sony ’s Japanese Web website and establish it using a computer , although Sony advises against that move .

In early August , Sony stated architectural plan to publish the 2.0 firmware update for North American drug user on August 12th . That twenty-four hours hail and go with no sign of the microcode exit , and Sony soon station to its message boards revised plans to release it the week of August 15th .

By the end of last hebdomad , forlorn North American PSP users suspected Sony ’s plan to release the firmware update had once again run askew . The company persist blotto lipped about its New PSP 2.0 release programme — in e - mails to customer , the troupe ’s support staff advises users to simplycheck Sony ’s Web sitefor look for details on the raw release once it ’s usable . But so far , that Thomas Nelson Page remains at version 1.52 , a firmware update released in June .

Ina send to Sony ’s WWW situation discussion board , Sony has noted that the Firmware 2.0 update will be released “ during the calendar week of August 22nd . ” This revised day of the month was made to the same post that previoulsy offered the week of August 15th as the dismission date .

update 7:55 atomic number 61 08/22/05 : Updated with revise date via Sony ’s discussion board .