Sony to allow Blu-Ray movies being copied to the PSP for portable viewing

PlayStation 3 Pack with Blu-Ray Spider-Man MovieSony today showed the next level of disc copying with Blu-Ray Profile 2.0. At the company’s booth at CES 2008, Sony demonstrated how you could put a Blu-ray Disc movie into a Playstation 3 and copy the film to a PSP or a Memory Stick.

Late last year, Fox and Warner released the first standard definition titles to offer this sort of capability (on Live Free, Die Hard and Harry Potter: The Order of the Phoenix, respectively).

David Bishop, president of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, explains: “This way, you can have a portable copy you can take with you. There was always the promise of greater interactivity. You’ll see that coming in the new year” — Via PCworld

Note that this only works if the company releasing a movie supports Blu-Ray Profile 2.0.