PSP - the TV in your pocket

As people in the US start queuing up for the launch of the Sony PSP on Wednesday, Om Malik reports that the guy behind Videora has developed some good new software called PSP Video 9. About a month ago we talked about the new Sony PSP being the device that would iPOD TV - how the new world of downloading TV programmes and movies needed a storage device to be the enabling icon - in the way the iPOD took Napster and MP3s into the mainstream.

This new software enables you to ask Videora to find the movie you want to see and the software then uses BitTorrent to find it and converts it into a format that means you can view it on your PSP. Neatly bypassing the new Sony UMD format.

So now you could set up the system to record Coronation Street straight onto your PSP and then watch it on the tube to work the following morning. Or take your PSP'd copy of the latest episode of 24 or Desperate Houewives round to your friends to watch. (Unfortunately the UK launch of the PSP has been pushed back to June 24 - expect a lot of eBay action in the meantime.)

TV has escaped from the box. Has it left advertising behind?