Tips to use Playstation 3 as a media center!

First you need to know that ps3 is a very powerful machine and if you want to use it as a media center trough the computer it maybe your computer that's not that fast to it can play the big Blu-ray movies. You can transfer movies, pictures and music direct to your ps3! If you want the most of your ps3 as a media center then you can install Linux on it. It's a bit tricky but there are great guides to it just search Google for Linux +playstation and you will find it.

If you want to stream trough the computer I think the best way is to have a wire to the hub but a fast wireless will do it to. So when you have decided to.

Then you need good software to get the movies music and pictures to the tv screen. The best software I have found is PS3 Media Center X from Red Kawa this is a simple program to use and all the things you need to now is in there site. If you want to transfer movies you have to convert them you can use: PS3 Video 9 that is a free video conversion application developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to convert your computer video files (like avi, divx, mpeg, etc.) into the specific video formats that are playable on the PlayStation 3. This can take a bit time but it's definitely worth it. You can start some before you go to bed and they will be finished when you wake up! So now you have it wired or wireless up to your TV and can start converting movies to your PS3.Some movies are really big so I think you shall buy the premium version with 60gb HD.

This was just a fast guide how you can expand your PS3 to a media center.

John Axelberg

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