Streaming Netflix through xbox= The Shiznit.
 

Also, Hulu. I do find the internet-laptop-crappy video tape with a chair- blocking- the- bottom- corner the whole movie, A little unerving but hey, it's free and legal. Best all around is streaming netflix, I give it a big W00T

How's the picture? How much does it cost? I'm loving the fact that we can watch TV shows and movies via the PS3. It's funny that with On Demand, 1TB of DVR space and all the premium stations, it's still not enough, but for example last night "we" wanted to record Dancing with the Stars *shudder*, Chuck, and House. The DVR can only record two shows at once so I just downloaded the new Chuck via BT and we'll watch it tonight either off of a thumb drive if it's DivX or streamed wirelessly with TVerisity if it's Xvid or something the PS3 can't play directly.

Why BT? NBC.com or Hulu has HD episodes I believe... Knowing which shows have episodes on-line is key when you run out of DVR tuners. :)

I've had my ps3 for 4 months, and i didnt know you could do that... how?

And for the xbox with netflix, the quality is better than dvd quality, some movies are streamed in HD, and it's like $5 a month, I think. I'm not exactly sure how much it cost's because i have a super high fancy expensive netflix package. but yea, it's totally worth it.

Oh, also, stage66.com is good for waatching free movies. Dont bother with the movies in the center of the screen. They want you to pay for those, but the movies on the right side of the screen are all free. Sometimes they're put into part's because of length. but I've watched tons of movies on there.

Just google TVersity, download and install it with all the default options onto a networked computer at your house. If you have any issue seeing the media server from the PS3, turn off media sharing via Windows Media and make sure that the NIC that talks to the PS3 is highest on the list in Windows. There's lots of good info on getting it to work with the PS3 in their FAQ.

I have definitely been cracking out on netflix

Didn't I tell you about TVersity.... :huh: haha.

I didnt even think of that. I thought there was some sort of netflix type thing on ps3 that i didnt know of. haha, I didnt even think of using tversity.

But i kind of quit using it. Whenever i would try and play a movie, it kept freezing in the movie, and it would take a second to keep playing. i think my windows vista kinda screwed it up the butt...

:lol: I don't actually pay attention to who tells me what. :P

Yah, turn off media sharing in Vista and play with the quality in Tversity.

Really? Last time I used Hulu or NBC.com, the quality was low and the newest episode wouldn't become available for a week. I guess I'll have to check it out again. The commercials are definitely bearable since it's only 1 per break instead of like 6. However, it's nice to put down the remote and just watch an episode that I got via BT without having to fast fwd the commercials.

Screw hulu and nbc.com. Try this http://eztv.it/

I think the only mainstream video codec or whatever the PS3 doesn't play is .mkv. It does Xvid as far as I know.

mkv2vob.exe takes care of that.

it's just a torrent list.

although it's nicely administered.

exactly. Easy to use and there is no need to filter through a bunch of crap to find nice quality vids.

I like the interface on thepiratebay to find TV shows but I'll have to check that one out.

Thanks for the program ref. Tyson. I'm sick of TVersity. FF and RW sucks. If I had gigabit or even megabit wired networking, I think it'd be fine but it sucks on my network. Might play with it a little more but I'm losing interest.

Last night I started playing a movie over Tversity and the quality was crap. Then I put the movie on a thumbdrive and played it directly on the PS3 and it looked HD.

I never thought of using a thumbdrive... scew tversity. Im doing this... Or maybe ill just get 300gb hd and put all my movies on that, and just use, that for movies, and free up space on my computer.

It plays more than half the AVI's I DL directly via USB but not all. I'm hoping Tyson's conversion program fixes that.

Another tool to move audio and video streams out of AVI and MKV to PS3/X-box compatible containers.

http://sentry23.googlepages.com/

It is all about the Codecs, not the containers. This moves them quickly and cleanly without trans-reencoding.

Cool, I'll try that one too. Idealy, I'd just be able to drop a batch of AVI's into a program that checks them for compatibality and makes the ones that aren't compabible, compatible.

I not found anything worth watching that I have not been able to watch natively on the PS3.

I don't want to know wtf you are downloading must be some sick stuff.

I don't know. I just use thepiratebay or Mininova since they're the only ones I know of and only DL AVI's. Could I be doing something differently to ensure I only DL compatible files?

MKVs may actually be more compatible if converted as they often contain h.264, AAC and other modern codec streams which PS3s are fine with, just not in a MKV container.

AVIs can have some wacky stuff in them.

Torrentscan is my aggregated search engine of choice.

Okay so you're saying MKV's may be more compatible as long as they aren't in an MKV container? :?:

I am saying the contents of MKVs are mostly newer better codecs that people who know something about video are using that the PS3 happens to support. The PS3 just doesn't support that container format.

The tool I sent you a link to moves those A/V streams into MP4 and VOB containers which the PS3 does support without losing quality or converting to older lower quality codecs.

I don't really care what you watch, just trying to help you be better informed about how them thar computer thingy majiggies work... I gotta go figure out why my VCR is blinking 12:00 now. :cool:

Okay, so you're suggesting that I try downloading MKV's and then using the tool you linked to change the container to MP4 or VOB. I take it that changing the container doesn't take hours like a re-encoding does? You can't just change the file extension manually right?