Media Sharing: One of the Best things that I Didn't Know About the PS3

As we all probably know, the PS3 has it's own capacity to recognize windows 7 and some Vista computers, they'll come up under the video, music and picture icons labelled with the name that you have given your computer, but, what very few of us actually know, (I only just found this out myself) Is that you can use this feature to stream videos straight from your PC to your PS3 as well as music and photos, all you have to do is follow these simple steps: First of all, turn on your PS3 and make sure that it is recognizing your computer by turning the PC on as well and connecting it to the same access point as the PS3, then, once you can see your PC's name come up on your XMB (Cross Media Bar), access Windows Media Player from your laptop, if you have opened a song to do this, select 'Switch to Library' in the top right corner. A number of options will come up. Select 'Stream' and then 'More Streaming Options' from the drop down menu, a window will come up from the control panel, and a drop down menu tab labelled 'Local Network' should be there, click on this and select 'All Networks'. Once you have done this, on the list there should be an option listed as 'Unknown Device' select the drop down menu to the right of this and select 'allowed' and then OK at the bottom of the screen, this will apply the settings that you have just changed and allow your PS3 (when your computer is on) to access the video, picture and music files on your PC, this is particularly helpful when you have videos on a laptop but the laptop only has a small 17 or 19 inch screen, it removes the need for a VGA or HDMI cable and it smooths the whole process massively.

          I hope you learned something awesome about the PS3 like I did a few hours ago!

                        - Andy B / Einstein365