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TVersity Media Server has added support for Sony's PSP, bringing streaming Internet radio and photos to the handheld device, along with PDAs, phones, and even the iPod.

TVersity announced today that they've rolled support for Sony's Playstation Portable (PSP) into their TVersity Media Server, their all-encompassing, format-translating media server for slinging music, images, photos, and more across devices, transports, and platforms. TVersity Media Server is an UPNP AV compliant media server which tries to make Internet-based media available anywhere, anytime, on any device you happen to have available. TVersity Media Server acts in conjunction with a UPnP media hub—whether a dedicated gizmo in your living room or software on a computer—transcoding Internet media on the fly to suit whatever device or access method you happen to be using at the moment, whether a PC, a cell phone, or (now) a PSP. TVersity Media Server handles images, music, audio and video podcasts, photo blogs, video search engines, and more.

The new release enables the TVersity Media Server to send content to any device with both an integrated RSS reader and streaming or downloading capabilities, such as the PSP or Apple's iTunes software. TVersity also did special work for the PSP to enable it to access a user's complete music and photo collection either by streaming (using the PSP RSS reader) or downloading (via the new PSP Web browser). TVersity also supports streaming live Internet radio stations to the PSP, even though the PSP doesn't have any built-in provisions for streaming live content.

TVersity Media Server also added support for additional UPnP devices, and now automatically detects the devices to which it is serving, enabling the server to simultaneously deliver content to different makes and models of the same device.

If TVersity sounds interesting, here's a bonus: for the time being, it's free: you just need Windows 2000/XP, DirectX 9.0 or higher, Windows Media Player 9 or higher, and at least 50 MB of disk space.