I haven't taken it out f the box yet as I was hoping for some Apple TV announcement at WWDC last week. Unfortunately, nothing transpired. That said, I still have hopes of something later this year.
I've tried Plex on my Macbook Pro and it's awesome. Unfortunately, Plex won't run on a 3rd gen Apple TV and Apple TV2's are hard to come by. Mountain Lion and Airplay is possible streaming solution.
I'm bit late to the PS3 world as I'm not much of a gamer, and while Blu-rays are nice, my whole collection are DVD's (replacing them would be expensive). I've read not so great things about streaming from a Mac to PS3 Media Server.
Any comments from PS3 owners and how well it works with the Mac ecosystem?
I haven't taken it out f the box yet as I was hoping for some Apple TV announcement at WWDC last week. Unfortunately, nothing transpired. That said, I still have hopes of something later this year.
I've tried Plex on my Macbook Pro and it's awesome. Unfortunately, Plex won't run on a 3rd gen Apple TV and Apple TV2's are hard to come by. Mountain Lion and Airplay is possible streaming solution.
I'm bit late to the PS3 world as I'm not much of a gamer, and while Blu-rays are nice, my whole collection are DVD's (replacing them would be expensive). I've read not so great things about streaming from a Mac to PS3 Media Server.
Any comments from PS3 owners and how well it works with the Mac ecosystem?
I just took my TV 2 in for exchange because it was having problems setting the date and time. They exchanged it right there at the Apple Store no charge, even thug it was well over a year old and out of warranty, but if I had wanted to buy one, the cost would have been $59. Not too shabby. All things being equal, $109 for the newer version is probably money well spent.
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You need an application to do the DLNA legwork, such as NullRiver's MediaLink which I've been using for some time, or Rivet. Once that's done it's easy as pie. The helper application actually transcodes video if it's not a native PS3 playback format, and will do so based on network settings, so the quality of playback obviously depends on your source files and network.
I use it fairly infrequently, since I mostly watch iTunes purchases and netflix, but it's been great.
I find the big limiter is that the PS3 (at least mine) is only 802.11g. So skimming through shows can be sometimes painful, or it will just break playback. For bigger shows, I tend to copy them to the PS3 and watch from there.
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I just picked up a PS3 the last week.
I haven't taken it out f the box yet as I was hoping for some Apple TV announcement at WWDC last week. Unfortunately, nothing transpired. That said, I still have hopes of something later this year.
I've tried Plex on my Macbook Pro and it's awesome. Unfortunately, Plex won't run on a 3rd gen Apple TV and Apple TV2's are hard to come by. Mountain Lion and Airplay is possible streaming solution.
I'm bit late to the PS3 world as I'm not much of a gamer, and while Blu-rays are nice, my whole collection are DVD's (replacing them would be expensive). I've read not so great things about streaming from a Mac to PS3 Media Server.
Any comments from PS3 owners and how well it works with the Mac ecosystem?
The PS3 will play your DVDs quite nicely. Also supports more formats of video than the AppleTV and has Netflix and several other streaming services not on the AppleTV. Does work best with a wired connection but wireless is there as an option.
I have both devices and use both. My DVDs have been ripped to our media server and they stream to our PS3, while they don't stream to our AplpleTV unless I have a computer up and running iTunes. Apple needs to get the server support in there.
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If you are referring to streaming as playback of videos currently on your mbp, and played through your ps3. If this is what you mean, it can do that natively, without additional software. I haven't done that for a while, but i remember that you can only stream certain formats, otherwise it won't play if it wasn't in the correct format. I believe it had to be in .mpg. I can't clearly remember since its been so long. Other than that, i found the streaming from mac to ps3 to be good.
If you are referring to streaming as streaming a movie from a website on the mbp, and mirroring it to the ps3, i'm not sure how to do that.
I have both ps3, and apple tv 2. Both support netflix. Netflix looks better on the ps3, when compared to the apple tv 2. This due to being limited to 720p. Where the ps3 can play in 1080p. There's not much of a difference, but you can tell if you look closely. I never use my apple tv 2 for netflix, because my ps3 is better for that. I even like the interface better on the ps3.
Thats my 2 cents on this. I'm no expert when it comes to this stuff though.
The PS3 will play your DVDs quite nicely. Also supports more formats of video than the AppleTV and has Netflix and several other streaming services not on the AppleTV. Does work best with a wired connection but wireless is there as an option.
I have both devices and use both. My DVDs have been ripped to our media server and they stream to our PS3, while they don't stream to our AplpleTV unless I have a computer up and running iTunes. Apple needs to get the server support in there.
Like the others said, Netflix is great on the PS3. Cheap but do keep track of your bandwidth usage. Always adding movies, documentaries and TV shows to their list. Watching four seasons of "Damages" and just loving it.
I think the PS3 is a great choice, especially since you still have physical media in your collection you'll want to play. I use Nullriver's MediaLink to make the bridge between my Mac and the PS3 and haven'y had too many problems with it though if you have a large file you're trying to stream, and its stuttering, try copying the file over to your PS3 and then watching it.
I use PS3 Media server...have been for about 3 years or so. LOve it, plays almost all video formats, super reliable. I use Medialink for Pics and Music. I also have an ATV2...but it barely gets used. Its most effective when I use my iPad to mirror.
I've used MediaLink and other Nullriver apps in the past and they've all worked great. I currently use an App called Playback. I think it was part of a Mac Update bundle in the fall or winter of last year... and its much the same as the MediaLink app... runs great.
Though if you wanna get movies onto your Apple TV... by putting them into iTunes you need to have them in a format iTunes likes and that will play on you're Apple TV as well. To do conversions I'd suggest using Handbrake. Its free and even has a Apple TV 2 preset and PS3 preset if you want to transcoder the files to the optimal formats etc.
Cant vouch for Netflix on the PS3... I've used it mostly on my Apple TV... and its good enough that i don't notice the 720p vs 1080p... Maybe I need new glasses lol!
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