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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Itchy @ Jun 11th 2008 12:17PM
I've recently started using my PS3 as an HD media streamer and have been very pleased with the results. Of course, I have to convert anything I want to watch to mpg, but that's no big deal. The results are worth it.
itchy @ Jun 11th 2008 12:18PM
Oh, I wanted to add that I've never used any other kind of media streamer, so I have nothing to compare it to. But as a first experience, this one has been pretty damned flawless.
Mr. E @ Jun 11th 2008 1:28PM
I definitely agree on the PS3 option. The PS3 can play Divx and MP4 files natively along with MPG. Plus if you stream from TVersity on a PC, it's supposed to do on-the-fly transcoding for non-supported formats. I haven't tried that option yet, since right now I only have MP4 files that I'm streaming. A big bonus is that with the PS3 you also get native Blu-ray playback included.
MadMike @ Jun 11th 2008 5:07PM
Ordeith,
That's why I have a PS3 & a Denon AVR-4308CI. The Denon can do all the home automation and even includes a DLNA server.
My PS3 can pause, FF and RW video (no skip that I know of, but I only use commercial free content). My HD cable box has skip (After hacking it).
Once think where the PS3 beats the XBox 360 - no RRoD. :-D Oh, and the PS3 is on average 10293828438289329129x quieter.
I used to have an XBox 360. Actually I had 3, all RRoD'd. So I bought a PS3 and haven't had a problem since.
lfonlfonlfon @ Jun 25th 2008 2:46PM
Ordeith:
What are you talking about? Do you actually own a 360 or are you just spotting whatever comes to mind?
The Xbox 360, unequivocally, does NOT play mpeg 2 or h.264. And the offical XBox web site even says that. I have one and I tried anyway. It sure don't! Have any VOBs or DVD ISOs (all native mpeg 2)? Those don't work either.
I'm not impressed with the PS3 support for mpeg 2 either.
Sheesh, I'm so tired of people spotting "what something has" when it clearly doesn't. Every article, blog post, webcast is full of this crap. "XBox does all this great, magical stuff". Um, no... it's doesn't