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wired.com wrote: Yesterday, Sony released its handheld PlayStation Portable, or PSP, a device for playing games, music and video. Despite months of quivering anticipation for this product, the geek community has consistently voiced one major criticism: the proprietary media-storage format.

The PSP uses Sony's Universal Media Disc for video, a format that is anything but universal. Even if you already own a movie on DVD, you have to purchase it again on UMD if you want to watch it on your PSP, or go through a torturous workaround to get part of the video from the DVD onto the device.

Sajeeth Cherian has solved that problem for us all.

Cherian has developed PSP Video 9, an elegant application that converts several digital video formats -- including MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and AVI -- to PSP format.

Configure PSP Video 9 to work with Cherian's other program, Videora, and you can automate video transfers from BitTorrent to your PC to your PSP -- overnight.

No need to buy UMDs. Just sync your PSP with your computer and off you go, porn in hand.

Because this, of course, is a wet dream for porn fans. Once you get your porn on the PSP, delete it from your hard drive, and you can enjoy your porn in private while keeping the family computer freed up for other things. Like games.

I asked Cherian whether he thought PSP Video 9 was a killer app for mobile porn, and he sounded genuinely surprised. "All it does is let you take video and put it on your PSP. If (porn is) what people are really looking for, I guess it could be," he says. "But the PSP only just came out (in North America) on Thursday. It's kind of hard to do a 'killer app' without the device being out."

But PSP Video 9 has been downloaded more than 10,000 times in the three months that the PSP has been available in Japan. And "people in Japan are creating weird little clips already encoded in the PSP format" to distribute through BitTorrent, says Cherian. "They want other people to download and watch (the videos), and they want to get comments and feedback. I think it's going to be pretty popular."

Cherian describes the marriage of PSP Video 9 and Videora as "PSPcasting." For some, it might as well be porncasting.

Geek wags have already dubbed the device "PornStation Portable" and warned each other to be cautious when in public. But while Sony seems comfortable with R-rated movies and M-rated games, I doubt it plans to release much hard-core on UMD. PSP Video 9 could quickly become a porn aficionado's best friend.

But that's not all. Like blogging and audioblogging (or podcasting), PSPcasting offers a platform for creating and distributing video, not just downloading and viewing it.