While everyone’s getting all worked up about the possible death of UMD , Sony is going around telling people they want to bring classic, non-Sony games to the PSP, just like the homebrewers. Oh? Here’s what Sony’s head of US marketing told MTV Multiplayer : In general there’s a lot of discussion about [publishers'] back catalogs that will finally find its way to PlayStation Network in the back half of this year. PSOne is included, but everything is on the table…We look for some of those big hits from all of the past games in their history and look for ways we can bring them over. It’s not always easy

Streaming TV is on the up and up—that much is clear. What, then, does ZillionTV offer that, say, Hulu, Netflix, Vudu, and Apple TV don’t? A little convergence, maybe. That’s not to say that ZillionTV is drastically more versatile than any number of existing set-top arrangements. It does, however, look attractively simple. Here’s what it is, in a nutshell: a set-top box that streams free content, a la Hulu, except directly to your TV

It’s bad enough going through the hassle of shipping your Xbox 360 off to customer support , but now Microsoft won’t even give you the box to ship it in. Updated . A Consumerist reader complained that after his Xbox red-ringed – again – he called Microsoft to get a shipping box to mail his console in for repairs. But the customer service rep told him he’d need to find his own box.

With America’s status as a technological superpower comes a tendency to occasionally straight ignore the rest of the world. For better or for worse, here are technologies we’ve all but completely missed out on. Laserdiscs When Laserdisc player production finally spun down a month or so ago, it wasn’t much of an occasion. I mean, aside from inspiring a little grade-school nostalgia and upsetting a hobbyist or three, the event wasn’t materially notable. For us, that is.