MTV returns to Sony's PSP

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News Title: MTV returns to Sony's PSP
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Date: 27/01/2008
Sony's recent undertaking to turn the PlayStation Portable into a veritable Swiss Army knife has yielded a number of interesting new features in the past few months. For North America, this has amounted to Skype Internet phone technology, which is expected to arrive this month. Sony also said at this year's Consumer Electronics Show that GPS and camera add-ons, as well as the ability to copy Blu-ray movies from the PlayStation 3 to the PSP, would all arrive for the handheld later this year.

Now, Sony is returning to one of the original packed-in draws to the gaming device with a new emphasis on UMD movie content. The hardware maker has announced a partnership with MTV to bring a number of the Viacom-owned network's original programs to the PSP's UMD movie format. Whereas Paramount had been responsible for distributing MTV's original UMD-format fare, Sony will now be directly licensing the content from the cable network.

MTV titles currently slated to arrive this week in the UMD format are: Beavis & Butt-head: The Mike Judge Collection, Vol. 2 and 3; Jackass, Vol. 2 and 3, Wildboyz, Vol. 1 and 2; Viva La Bam, Vol. 2, 3, and 4; and Aeon Flux: The Complete Animated Collection (two-disc set). All titles will run for $14.99, and Sony expects to bring additional MTV programming on an ongoing basis to the PSP. Sony has also said it is in discussions with other studios to bring similar television content to the PSP.