now that I was able to get some time in with my psp I gotta say I am happy. money well spent. wipeout pure is what gaming is all about. the movie playback is awesome (umd, I haven't tried it from the memstick yet, gotta get a gig memory stick.) sound quality is great (but I am not an audiophyle like K' and wierdy lol) no dead pixels on my unit either. I got about 5 hours of battery time on the first charge. that was playing wipeout, watching spiderman 2, and looking over the sampler content. (lords of dogtown is gonna rock, youngsters get your skating history lesson.) like I said money well spent. don't think of it as a handheld gaming system. it's an mp3 player, portable movie viewer, and plays games. hell try to pick up all three of those items for less..... I don't think you can.