The rule of thumb, when jumping on a bandwagon, is to always look forward before your feet leave the ground.

Over the last 24 hours I’ve spent, um, 18 hours or so working on getting some anime content down to my PSP. Since most tutorials assume you’re going to be converting a 1.5 hours movie – and not 3.5 hours of 18 episodes – there were a number of false starts, do-overs, and PSP viewing sessions throughout the process… and it’s working now. Got the DVD Encoder thingy to drop the 18 episodes as 18 separate files and got PSPVideo9 to convert it using 320×240 (it’s 4:3 on the discs) with 15fps (because it looked like ass with 30fps) – also with a two pass approach, which really makes a difference in quality, it seems. So I’ve definitely jumped on that bandwagon.

And then there’s jumping over the current wagon and creating a ride for other people to jump on, which Steve has done today: How To: 20GB External Storage for PSP. Unlike the most recent enclosure news, where files are simply shuttled to the MemoryStick, this offers access to the entire 20GB HD over the air. w00t.

Very cool shit.