According to Tom Kiss, the PLAYSTATION 3 is getting updated next week. Why should you care? It finally introduces the Advanced Remote Play functionality that we've been dreaming about. The 1.6 firmware revision for the PS3 will allow you to access your PS3's media content from any wi-fi point in the world. For example, let's say you have an episode of Death Note saved on your PS3. By having Remote Play enabled, you'll be able to stream that video to your PSP whilst at work.The connectivity opens a lot of potential. "If I have my MP3 Walkman or my iPod, or digital camera connected to PS3 then I can access those devices too," a spokesman for Sony said less than a month ago. However, don't expect to play back your DVDs or Blu-Ray movies on the go: Remote Play hasn't been able to access disc content, and that probably won't change for a while.
[Via PS3 Fanboy]
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3-15-2007 @ 5:46PM
Stef Geiger said...
Really don't get the apparent appeal here. It really doesn't seem too practical to 1. have to leave your PS3 on 2. Have to convert videos that you have to mp4, all so that you can check the stuff out when you're at a hotspot?
This would be an AMAZING feature if the PS3 supported wake up on lan, xvid and adding files to the HDD over the network from a computer.
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3-15-2007 @ 7:05PM
ZRX said...
So is this to say I could hook up a USB camera and be able to access it via wifi, turning the camera into a live security camera ?
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3-15-2007 @ 7:30PM
Yah..itsapsp..sowhat said...
I think this is AWESOME.
So I take my video collection and do a batch conversion.
Now I load it on my PS3 and it is accessible anywhere I have hotspot access.
Brilliant!
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3-15-2007 @ 8:25PM
Reesimo said...
I own a PS3 and of course a PSP so this is awesome for me. I wonder though, if your PS3 will have to be on all day for you to access it on the PSP...
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3-15-2007 @ 8:57PM
AndyCat said...
Will there be a psp firmware update to go along with the ps3 one?
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3-15-2007 @ 9:01PM
dlynch said...
reminds me of orb for the wii, except it streams to the tv
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3-15-2007 @ 9:11PM
Roy said...
Will this work on the 20gb PS3?
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3-15-2007 @ 9:36PM
Dustin said...
same question as Roy. I think it should cause your connecting it via wi-fi from lets say, starbucks, that it going through the internet to your PS3, not the PS3's wi-fi
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3-15-2007 @ 10:25PM
Yah..itsapsp..sowhat said...
@dlynch...
Orb streams from computer to console (Wii or PS3)...this streams from PS3 HDD (which Wii doesn't have) to the PSP...its kinda sorta completely different.
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3-28-2007 @ 8:16AM
Denis said...
It can't be accesed from anywhere! I read it back and forth and you can only acces the PS# remote play either from the direct wireless setting or having a wireless router physicaly connected to the PS3 then accessing the remote play from the PSP to the wireless
router wich is connected by ethernet cable to the PS3. But it will be sweet when we can access from anywhere...
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3-28-2007 @ 8:20AM
Denis said...
It can't be accesed from anywhere! I read it back and forth and you can only acces the PS# remote play either from the direct wireless setting or having a wireless router physicaly connected to the PS3 then accessing the remote play from the PSP to the wireless
router wich is connected by ethernet cable to the PS3. But it will be sweet when we can access from anywhere...
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