It’s deep. It’s shiny. It’s my PSP Slim & Lite.

My former colleague at HP sells PSP package for P10,300. I added P3,000 for the red skinned portable game console. Honestly, I forgot how much exactly she asked me on top. I was too excited to buy PSP before I left the company. I chose three-month installment which pads everything to P14,500 more or less. I got silicon, crystal and leather cases, for which the latter didn’t fit, 10 DVD’s of games, 2 of which cannot be read by my DVD-ROM, Logitech headphones, PSP charger, USB connector with charger, instruction set (in HP, we called it CBA or current best approach) for dummies and updated firmware…

… and best of all the prestige of the only bearer of the Ferrari Red PSP. And until now, I haven’t seen other PSP gamer with authentic red color. One can try G-Mask of course but I guess it would cost P3000 also.

I’m so grateful that I haven’t bought iPod Touch yet. I love music and downloading music but I also found myself a gamer. So touchscreen feature is no match to the gaming experience with PSP. I never enjoyed the games and applications installed on my brother’s 16GB Touch. Now with my PSP, I just need so much spare time to finish missions and adventures of my games.

My less-than-two-months-old portable has only 4GB Memory Stick. How would I manage the filesystem for a relatively low capacity drive? Initially, I don’t have videos. I’m not a fan of YouTube so I can’t think of any favorite clip. Games and music files share memory. Good games need larger chunk of memory while music files need to be updated so I transfer files often.

I couldn’t put PSP down as a game gadget in my review. I don’t care about its dimensions and weight. The widescreen matters. I’m loving HD since the first visit on Jason and Larisse’s condo unit. I never tried UMD yet and even not tested the look-and-feel of all games stored at the DVD’s. I’m playing games I’m familiar with, either I had played it on PS or I saw one playing it. NBA ’08 crashes. I don’t know if that game suffers because the space is little. I just deleted it. I wonder what will happen to God of War.

PSP is a simple music player. It’s like having an iPod Shuffle. There’s no playlist or automatic grouping by artist, genre or music album. PSP supports two-depth folder hierarchy. In order for me not to scroll from 1 to three-hundred and so files, in a single and top-down manner, I just classify my MP3′s per artist. PSP called it a ‘group’. I can do the same for pictures and videos.

I just recently discovered how PSP rocks video. With my favorite all-in-one videoconverters, watching movies and YouTube clips is so much fun in HD! I tried replaying Heroes Season 2 Episode 11 ‘Powerless’ with converted and merged FLV’s from YouKo. It’s clear. Then, I downloaded a movie file from rapidshare of the same episode (minus the subtitle in Chinese characters), converted it to HD, and presto! It’s more clear. It marks the clip per minute that you can seek and preview.

The rendering of high resolution pictures lag. It outputs the final image after some seconds. Yet, it’s still crisp. I wonder how it affects the videos. I found two videos not synching to its respective videos. I’m not sure of the culprit whether’s it’s before conversion, the file itself or the player.

I promise to take good care of my PSP. I’m scared that my PSP will got scratches out of its crystal case so I use silicon. However, it did not highlight the Ferrari redness and madness of my gadget. Patience is indeed a virtue. Patience pays.