media center
Tips To Use Playstation 3 As A Media Center!
First you need to know that ps3 is a very powerful machine and if you want to use it as a media center trough the computer it maybe your computer that’s not that fast to it can play the big Blu ray movies. You can transfer movies, pictures and music direct to your ps3!
If you want the most of your ps3 as a media center then you can install Linux on it.
It’s a bit tricky but there are great guides to it just search Google for Linux +playstation and you will find it.
If you want to stream trough the computer I think the best way is to have a wire to the hub but a fast wireless will do it to. So when you have decided to.
Then you need good software to get the movies music and pictures to the tv screen.
The best software I have found is PS3 Media Center X from Red Kawa this is a simple program to use and all the things you need to now is in there site. If you want to transfer movies you have to convert them you can use: PS3 Video 9 that is a free video conversion application developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to convert your computer video files (like avi, divx, mpeg, etc.) into the specific video formats that are playable on the PlayStation 3. This can take a bit time but it’s definitely worth it. You can start some before you go to bed and they will be finished when you wake up!
So now you have it wired or wireless up to your TV and can start converting movies to your PS3.Some movies are really big so I think you shall buy the premium version with 60gb HD.
This was just a fast guide how you can expand your PS3 to a media center.
HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC
Let us start at the very beginning when we get to know this computer called HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC. You may be interested to know that this computer has many names and some of its aliases are:
oHP Pavilion Media Center EL406AA
oHP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n
oHP Pavilion Media Center
oHewlett-Packard EL406AA
oOr simply as the Hewlett-Packard TV m7350n.
Such technology is expected to be really functional. What’s in the HP Pavilion Media Center TV that makes it unique? For one, the HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC has an Intel processor with processor class D. It has a processing speed of 2.8 GHz, and a 2 GB installed memory. Its BUS speed is 800 MHz and a cache size of 4 MB. The memory technology is DDR II SDRAM with a maximum memory of 4 GB. The system chipset is Intel 945P Express.
Further, the hard drive has a storage capacity of 250 GB. Its CD Read Speed is 40X, the CD Write Speed is 40X, the CD Rewrite Speed is 32X, and the DVD Read Speed is 16X. It comes with Serial ATA Drive Controllers as well. The 2nd CD Read Speed is 16X.
For graphics and the monitor, you get a plug-in card for video integration and 64 MB of installed video memory. For networking and communications functions, your HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC has a 56 Kbps modem speed, and both Fast Ethernet and Ethernet for network support.
The interface connectors you get with your HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC are three forms of line-out: line-out (center/subwoofer), line-out (rear), and line-out (side surround.) On one hand, the expansion slot types of your HP Pavilion Media Center TV m7350n PC accommodate an XD-Picture Card, SD Memory Card, Memory Stick, SmartMedia Card, PCI Express x16, a CompactFlash Card, Memory, Processor, and PCI.
This type of computer uses Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 as its operating system (or OS.)The OS comes with these different software programs:
oMicrosoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition (Trial)
oMuvee autoProducer
oHP Image Zone
oRealPlayer
oSonic MyDVD
oPC-Doctor 5 for Windows
oA 60-day subscription to Norton Internet Security 2005 AntiSpyware
oAdobe Reader 7.0
oSonic DigitalMedia Plus
oMicrosoft Works 8.0
oAnd InterVideo WinDVD 5
Moreover, the keyboard and mouse are the input devices provided. You can buy the appropriate monitor via a separate purchase as an independent unit.
And now that we know all that techie mumbo-jumbo, it brings us to the most important question: what can it do for us? Well, to start with, it makes for an excellent paperweight, especially if you accidentally plug it into the wrong power source which then renders the insides fried and useless. However, that doesn’t justify the expense. Unless you’ll take a closer look at it, you’ll never appreciate this computer. So let us look deeper.
Since this computer is actually a Media Center, that gives those of you who love your entertainment a ray of hope. For one thing, you can record, and create video recordings to a maximum of 170 hours. The Image Zone software (an exclusive technology of Hewlett Packard) permits you to edit, organize, then store and protect any video clips and photos you feel are worth preserving. You can also create personalized CDs and DVDs with this baby. And there is much, much more it can do – but you need to read the manual for that to get at the nitty gritty technical details.
Should you buy this product then? Well, that’s really up to you – if you feel you really need all those high-tech features for both your leisure and work, then this is a great investment. Depending on your usage, the HP Pavilion Media Center is a cool state-of-the art technology for your personal and business needs.
DVD-R Hard Drive Recorder Media Center
I have been putting up with prerecorded television on its traditional formats for years now.
I guess that it would have been around 3 or 4 years ago when I decided that I could do without the VHS, it was a sad day saying goodbye to some of the movies I owned on Video Cassette but it was a relief to not only lose the necessity to store these bible sized monsters in the house, but also to remove the triple wired dinosaur form the living room. Well this old relic of my youth had been replaced with a normal DVD player and soon my DVD collection started in earnest.
The trouble is that I don’t really want to store large items of digital media anymore. My music has all been compressed down into 320kbps mp3, my photos are all now burned onto DVD’s and stored in triplicate.
So I start converting my DVD’s and ripping them onto my hard drive. trouble is that before long I have almost 60 Gig of movies and really I prefer to watch them on my TV than on the PC screen.Then a solution occurs to me, a complete home entertainment solution.
I needed mass storage and it was only going to be a matter of time before I found a solution.
There it was, a DVD hard disc recorder which could like do everything I wanted and here it is a:Philips Hard Disc DVD Recorder with 250gig hard drive.
First I networked it into my PC and dragged across 80 Gig of movies in DivX format ( that is about 100 films ). Next my photos for the past few years ( some 30 Gig ) were imported followed by 30 Gig of music in mp3 format to join the party.
Next I hooked up the DVDr recorder to my TV ( sadly I am not yet an owner of a flatscreen TV but that is surely only a matter of time ) and piped the excellent audio connection to my home hifi.
The results are superb, even though I have not even explored this unit’s impressive recording capacity – and it is capable of that lovely Video Plus thing – I have now a complete home media centre at a very attractive price.
Hard drive DVDr machines are available at Telephones Online [http://www.telephonesonline.co.uk/_dvdr_recorders.asp] whilst the model I purchased was the DVDR3460H Philips Hard Disc DVD Recorder [http://www.telephonesonline.co.uk/details.asp?prodID=1659&title=Philips+Hard+Disc+DVD+Recorder]
Previously I had tried various abortive options. This now has restored my household to a complete full on media experience.