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Working with RSS-based PSPCasting

I've been looking into PSPCasting - publishing feeds with podcast-like <ENCLOSURE> tags containing references to video files to which PlayStation Portables can subscribe - as a means of distributing news video and imagery.  I'm trying to give people the option of downloading news & entertainment footage my station produces wirelessly over the Internet directly onto a PSP by way of an RSS feed and BitTorrent.  The key element is having people register/subscribe their device once and then receive automatic and/or scheduled content updates. 

Since PSPs can play MP3s, this also makes that platform the perfect candidate for a podcast client.  A rich podcatcher app doesn't exist yet in wide distribution (if at all), but it still should work.  It's been great fun playing with the new platform...except for the fact that the video is largely proprietary, and that getting RSS feeds to work on the PSP is tougher than I thought. 

Most discussions point to an Engadget article that's admittedly a device hack, and other popular methods aren't exactly RSS-automated, but rather rely on copying files from a PC/laptop onto a PSP via a serial connection.  Which pretty much defeats the point.

Anyone comes across any good ideas to having PSPs read RSS feeds directly?

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