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Google Launches Media Server for PS3

Deathsythe | June 30, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3 Company Misc 
Much like the Apple TV tuner and HP Media Smart TV tuner- Google hopes to turn your Playstation 3 to a centralized media center. You can now stream videos from your PC back to your Playstation to enjoy on that nice Plasma HD that we all have.
The Google Media Server - available here - is a free Windows app that sends media files to your TV via the Playstation 3 and other Universal Plug-and-Play (UPnP) devices. It works in tandem with Google Desktop, the desktop search tool that also runs various and sundry software widgets known as Google Gadgets.
With help from the Google Media Server, your TV can access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, and naturally, it can tap straight into YouTube, the video-sharing site where Google hopes to serve an enormous number of advertisements.

Google is already streaming YouTube videos into living room via third-party devices like Apple TV and HP's Media Smart TV. And now it's reaching out for the Playstation 3 crowd.

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  • 1 thumbs!
    Demonfurby | July 01, 2008
    Just another way Google is taking over the world...
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    Silver Mirror | July 01, 2008
    The internet will soon be renamed Google you just wait and see.

    So I'm not entirely getting this, we can now stream stuff directly from our PC onto our PS3?
    • 0 thumbs!
      HisServant77 | July 01, 2008
      Lol, I agree! Everything is going the way of Google . . . which is why I revolt against them!! (Slightly kidding)

      We can already currently stream things from our PC onto our PS3 through Windows Media Player 11. This is just giving another way to stream things through this other google application thing.
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    Deathsythe | July 03, 2008
    The problem with the majority of streaming softwares and utilities onto all of this gen's consoles has always been formatting.

    To stream to the 360 it had to be a pure .mpg or .mpeg with no other necessary codecs required
    To stream to the Wii it had to be .FLV


    We need something like VLC Media Player for each console to get rid of this compatibility issue.

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