At the risk of labouring a point I've posted up a dialup-unfriendly (1.2Mb) snapshot of the Google homepage on my Jap PSP with v2.00 firmware (text size is set to "Normal"):
http://www.nmacleod.com/psp/google.jpg The sort of text rendering issues I'm talking about should be fairly clear if you look at the bottom of the Google page in the image where it has the links "Advertising Programmes - Business Solutions - About Google - Go to Google.com" There is a certain "fuzziness" around the letters in "Business Solutions", particularly the letters "s", "n" and "o". The black copyright text is extremely fuzzy - the number "6" being the most extreme example. This is no doubt due to anti-aliasing/sub-pixel rendering (not sure which, one or the other) but the effect is soften the text and cause these glitches - this text is *not* sharp and clear! I know I'm being quite pedantic/anal/extreme (force of habit!) but I find it quite hard to view web pages when the text has these characteristics - whenever I view a page on the PSP I immediately begin to notice the lack of crispness to the text and it p*sses me off! :) By contrast I don't see this on an iPAQ or any other LCD screen that employs similar technology to improve the quality of the displayed text. The PSP is fine for occasional surfing but IMHO it's definately not up to the job of surfing text heavy (news-type) sites. The Handheld skin is fine on the PSP (although Browse by album is broken) but again the lack of textual crispness is evident here when the text size is set to "Normal", however text quality improves a touch when text size is set to "Large" although the letter "e" has an annoying "shimmer" to it. I think I've said enough - I'm pretty sure my Jap PSP isn't defective, and believe this is just the way the browser works on Jap hardware! Maybe the US firmware is different in this respect if US users aren't seeing these text characteristics/artefacts? :) -- Milhouse _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
