I have recently updated the Sony Playstation 3 firmware to the latest version 1.80. Amongst the new features is the support of media sharing from PC's. Once updated and reset, my Windows machine informed me that it saw a new device, and offered me the chance to share my media with it. Sounded like a nice idea to try on a private 100MB fast ethernet, sadly this was not the case for several reasons.
1. When the network sharing is enabled with WMP11, the network service takes up 50% of my CPU cycles and upto 350MB of RAM.... Which totally slows down my machine.
2. On a fast network connection, the PS3 does not respond quickly when browsing folders or opening large files.
3. Many video formats are not supported.
I think I will give this another go but with other server software running on my PC...
Not nearly as excited about the new firmware as I was before.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
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