PSP - Remote Play

[Red coupe]

Kicks screwing ***.

I never really knew what it was, just figured I could play a couple of games from the ps3 on the PSP, or the other way around.

While you can play some PS3 games and other downloaded content on the psp with it that's not why its cool.

For those like me who never bothered to look into it... Do it!What it lets you do is basicly play any media off your PS3, either over local wireless network (connecting directly through wireless to your PS3), over the internet.

That second part is whats really badass. Leave your PS3 on and in remote play mode and you can connect to it anywhere you can get a wifi signal using only your PSN name and password.I have a 160gig drive full of movies I was too lazy to convert for the PSP, and now I can stream them with out bothering straight from my PS3 any where I have wireless.

You can even view content on media servers your PS3 is connected to.

So basically damn near 160gig of movies in my pocket

[MinisterofDOOM]

Yeah, it's a really cool idea.

It really makes me wish Nintendo had done more Wii/DS integration like they originally talked so much about.

How is the stream quality? Are you constantly waiting for buffering or is it pretty clean and smooth?

PSP remote play is honestly the most appealing thing about the PS3 for me.

[Red coupe]

Depends on your wireless signal. I JUST tried it and figured out what it was a few minutes before I made this post. But I am watching a movie for the hell of it now, connected over the internet and not directly, With 100% signal its perfect. Could never tell that it wasn't playing off the memory card if I didn't see the net light flashing away.

XMB operation is slightly laggy, but not bad. I just wish there was some kind of sleep mode so I could leave the PS3 on and waiting for the PSP's connection with out it being full on...

Best part is it will play files that usually wouldn't play on PSP with out converting them, so its almost better then trying to play them off the memory card.

Connected with an ad-hock (how ever its spelled) network between PSP and PS3 video got a little laggy as I went out to the living room, so it looks like it may not be too perfect with a crappy connection... but I would expect that.

-edit: just found connection settings are customizable for frame skipping and image quality, so you can adjust it to what works best.