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How to stream media from a PC to a PSP

source: DallasNews.com

Sony’s Remote Play has great potential, but it also grates

12:00 AM CDT on Friday, June 29, 2007

By VICTOR GODINEZ / The Dallas Morning News
vgodinez@dallasnews.com This might sound a little grandiose, but the new Remote Play software for Sony’s PSP that lets you wirelessly stream media from your computer is so cool it almost feels like magic.That’s not to say the software is a perfectly refined product.As it stands right now, the program is so rough around the edges that you could grate cheese on the thing.But it is undeniably fascinating and a tantalizing glimpse of the future of portable media players.The free downloadable software for the handheld game machine/digital media device basically lets you use any Wi-Fi network to connect to your PlayStation 3 game console.From there, you can access almost any media files stored on the PS3’s hard drive or even use your PS3 as a conduit to media files on your PC.

Eventually, after a lot of trial and error, I was able to wirelessly connect my PSP to my PS3.

At this point, I could see the PS3’s menu screen on my PSP screen.

That’s already pretty cool.

Then, though, I navigated to the menu option on my PS3 that lets me access my videos, pictures and songs stored on my home PC.

Note that my PS3 is also on a Wi-Fi connection.

So I was using one Wi-Fi network to connect to my PS3, and then another to sift through the music on my computer.

Eventually, I was able to access my MP3s, and start pumping out Paul Simon’s “Boy in the Bubble” through the speakers on my PSP.

Talk about the days of miracle and wonder.

Once Sony gets the kinks worked out, this could change how we listen to and watch our digital files on the road.

Who cares how much hard-drive capacity you have on your portable player?

As long as you’re in range of a wireless network, you can just stream the files already stored on your PC’s hard drive.

Among the needed improvements:

• The ability to turn on your PS3 remotely with the PSP. Right now, someone has to physically activate the PS3 before it can connect to the PSP.

Unless you want to leave your PS3 running all day while you’re away from home – not recommended – this is too clumsy.

• The software is hardly plug and play. You have to register a username and password with Sony, fiddle with settings on your PSP, PS3 and PC, and even then I was never able to access videos or photos, only music.

• Not all wireless networks seem to work. Unprotected Wi-Fi networks in my neighborhood were all PSP-friendly, but a hotel network I tried to use on the road wouldn’t let me through.

Still, I really hope Sony doesn’t let this technology fall by the wayside.

It could be revolutionary.

Pros: Access any digital media file on your PC remotely from, theoretically, anywhere in the world.

Cons: Extremely user-unfriendly software requires a lot of patience.

Bottom line: The PSP may yet be an iPod killer if this software pans out.

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