MAX Media Dock bolts compact flash and micro hard drives onto PSP

Datel has followed up yesterday's DS compact flash dock announcement with news of the MAX Media Dock for PSP, which enables you connect a compact flash card of up to 4GB or a micro drive onto your Sony handheld. The card or drive simply appears as a Memory Stick in the PSP's browser.

The MAX Media Dock also comes supplied with Datel's MAX Media Manager PC application (pictured), which helps you exploit that extra multimedia functionality you bought your PSP for. (What, you mean you don't buy five UMD movies a week? And we thought it was just us…)

You can use this application to convert video files into a PSP-friendly format and then save them onto the compact flash card or PSP memory stick for viewing on the go. Accepted formats include AVI, MPG/MPEG, VOB (DVD), WMV, MOV, MPE, 3GP and MP4. You can also automatically transfer MP3 music files across – and we wouldn't be surprised if people's flash cards get filled with all other kinds of Internet-trafficked wares too.

The MAX Media Manager also gives you access to the manufacturer's Codejunkies file server, which contains various saved game files that you can transfer to your PSP with the supplied USB cable. Cheats never prosper, we say, but then again we've got stuck traipsing through Liberty City just as often as the next man, so what the heck.

MAX Media Dock for PSP is available in three flavours: Base Unit (no flash card supplied (£29.99); with 1GB card (£54.99); with 2GB Compact Flash card (£84.99). Dock on!