Playstation3

[Warren Oates]

I've been looking for a way to put my televison on my LAN, so that I can
stream stuff over the (gigabit) Ethernet from my Mac Pro. I keep coming
back to the Sony Playstation3, which costs about CDN $400 or less and,
aside from games, will play Blu-ray discs, DVs and CDs and will connect
to my big-screen tv via HDMI or component video. This seems to be too
good to be true.

Can I really put this thing on my LAN and stream DivX (say) to my LCD
tv? And play games with it in between? And rent Blu-ray movies and play
them? I bet it doesn't record ...

And yes, it's more expensive than Apple TV.
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W. Oates

[mhz]

In article <0091aa38$0$10272$c3e...@news.astraweb.com>,
Warren Oates <warren...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been looking for a way to put my televison on my LAN, so that I can
> stream stuff over the (gigabit) Ethernet from my Mac Pro. I keep coming
> back to the Sony Playstation3, which costs about CDN $400 or less and,
> aside from games, will play Blu-ray discs, DVs and CDs and will connect
> to my big-screen tv via HDMI or component video. This seems to be too
> good to be true.
>
> Can I really put this thing on my LAN and stream DivX (say) to my LCD
> tv?

Yes

> And play games with it in between? And rent Blu-ray movies and play
> them?

Yes

> I bet it doesn't record ...

It does not record anything: just a player..

[Warren Oates]

In article <none-9D687D.0...@news.videotron.net>,
mhz <no...@nowhere.ca> wrote:

> Yes
>
> > And play games with it in between? And rent Blu-ray movies and play
> > them?
>
> Yes
>
> > I bet it doesn't record ...
>
> It does not record anything: just a player..

Thanks. It's on my wish-list. Gigabit Ethernet comes with it -- I could
probably stream 1080p (without looking up them specs).
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W. Oates