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PS3 over PC?
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Menelmarar
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Yes, it supports USB mass storage. But largely unnecessary, it can stream direct from one of your PCs. Or at least I haven't found a need.
It does seem a little cumbersome setting up a music playlist though =/
Everything else, movie/video streaming works great. You have to save the photos locally to it's harddrive in order to do any photo gallery stuff which is kind of a huge bummer. Especially for someone with 100's of GB of photos and growing quickly. Very combersome setting up a slideshow moving over manually with usb stick.
It does seem a little cumbersome setting up a music playlist though =/
Everything else, movie/video streaming works great. You have to save the photos locally to it's harddrive in order to do any photo gallery stuff which is kind of a huge bummer. Especially for someone with 100's of GB of photos and growing quickly. Very combersome setting up a slideshow moving over manually with usb stick.
I havent ditched my HTPC entirely but have ditched the cables. Prior to getting my PS3 I had the HTPC wired into the Tv. Now I just use Tversity on the HTPC to stream to the PS3. I'm considering replacing the HTPC with a small server case "like the Chenbro 180" so I can add more storage. If they would finally push the Netflix update so I don't need to use the disc anymore the setup would be even better.
I am not needing photo galleries at all, I use the Media PC now for pretty much Netflix since my large HD in it died but I am planning to get a nice big one soon but now I am undecided if I just use the current media PC for storage and stream or not. The PS3 won't play ISO and what not I suspect?
I have my whole collection of DVDs I would like to rip to a HD.
I have my whole collection of DVDs I would like to rip to a HD.
Menelmarar
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PS3 will read any DLNA streaming server. This means WMP, PS3MediaServer, and TVersity among others, but those are the most typical and free ones (or at least included in Windows)I am not needing photo galleries at all, I use the Media PC now for pretty much Netflix since my large HD in it died but I am planning to get a nice big one soon but now I am undecided if I just use the current media PC for storage and stream or not. The PS3 won't play ISO and what not I suspect?
I have my whole collection of DVDs I would like to rip to a HD.
PS3MediaServer will let you stream DVD ISO's, you can browse right into them and select the title you want to play.
You'd get more use out of your space if you rip the DVD's into some MPEG4 format instead of ISO though. DVDFlick is a free program that will let you burn them back into discs if you ever want.
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I ditched my HTPC and replaced with with a TivoHD and PS3. Works great, and its no longer a fight to get things configured just right. I converted the HTPC in to a file server (which also does my batch encoding jobs) and installed MediaTomb on it. It serves media (movies/music) to my PS3 and Windows Media Player.
Adidas4275
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the only loss of function i see is....
using ABC.com, NBC.com, etc.... and hulu for programs that you want to watch
using ABC.com, NBC.com, etc.... and hulu for programs that you want to watch
the only loss of function i see is....
using ABC.com, NBC.com, etc.... and hulu for programs that you want to watch
Yeah, I lose a few things, but honestly I think it was worth the trade off. For others maybe not so much.
Though I gained the ability to format shift HD recordings from the TivoHD (maybe you can do this now with CableCARD and Windows 7 now, I'm not completely up to date on it).
CrimandEvil
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I've got both and see no reason, after setting up my PS3 and playing around with it, to use my PS3 over my HTPC. It doesn't play all my media. Media organisation is a major pain in the ass when you have more then a few videos. No way was it able to handle my entire music collect, much less my archived TV folder. Especially my ripped DVD folder.