OT: New PS3 & Video Streaming

Jim H wrote on 9/5/2009, 10:41 PM

I've been waiting a while now for Sony to drop the price of it's Blue-Ray player / game system and with the advent of the new slim PS3 I now own one. I installed PS3 Media Server (PMS) and can now smoothly stream any type of video directly to my HD TV. I'm using a hard wired cat5 network connection and PMS will transcode files on the fly if they can't be played natively on the PS3. Works great!

Finally I can show my videos in HD on a real TV. Oh yeah, and I can surf the net on my TV, watch blue-ray movies, stream my music library, view stills from my PC and play silly games too. The whole process was remarkably simple.

Comments

John_Cline wrote on 9/5/2009, 11:03 PM

The PS3 is an amazing multimedia device. I hear you can play games on it, too.

Grazie wrote on 9/6/2009, 12:59 AM

Thanks Jim.

I keep looking at my Bravia thinking it being capable of surfing and so on. Our BT-Vision box is linked to it; the Internet PC has a PowerLink cable running through our mains linked to the BT V-box so I keep thinking I;ve missed (or BT has!) one vital "eureka" moment to somehow have a mouse cursor scurrying over the face of the 40" SONY Bravia TV?

I need to know more about this convergence stuff . . .

Grazie

Streamworks Audio wrote on 9/6/2009, 1:14 AM

Here I am run TVersity on my 'home media server' - standard UPnP server which the PS3 has no problem finding on the network. It can Transcode to any format really... but for me I just make sure the file is in a format that the PS3 can read natively (which there are plenty to choose from) so I can skip the transcoding part.

Its a awesome way to get quick access to the movies and music.

Cheers,
Chris