North American PSPs Get 2.60 Update

New features of the latest system software update for Sony's portable gaming system include support for WMA playback and RSS audio feeds.

North American owners of the Sony Playstation Portable video game system will be interested to know there is a new 2.60 system software update available for them to download. This update can be downloaded via the Network Update feature native to the PSP, via a transfer to a Memory Stick from a PC to which the update has been downloaded or via a UMD.

Here is a list of the new/updated features for the 2.60 system software update:

• Support of RSS-distributed audio content feeds
• Volume adjustment as an option for the LocationFree Player feature
• Two types of Chinese language support as an option under the Internet browser
• Download of copyright-protected video data to a Memory Stick Duo card using the Internet browser
• Playback of WMA music file format