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stefuel
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Green Harbor MA USA
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 2:22 am Post subject: OK PC geeks I have a question or two |
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I have had good luck streaming SD video from my PC through my LAN to my PS3. My question is, is a typical LAN connection fast enough to stream 1080P HD to my PS3? Also, I don't want to use my PC as a BD player, just for storage. I'd like to add a BD ROM drive and a 2TB HDD to my PC and have it double as a server. Is it doable???
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nuttall_chris
Joined: 08 Mar 2006
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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I bought a PS3 to do exactly what you are asking about....I later returned the PS3 as I was not able to get it working properly. Some movies would work perfectly while I could never get others to work. On some the audio was the problem on others it was the video. This was about 2 months ago so it was using a fairly recent version of the PS3 firmware.
As for your network being able to stream 1080P, I had no problems with streaming over a 100M network. I'm back to my HTPC streaming Bluray and HDDVD from my 8TB server. I use PowerDVD for playback, it works well enought to keep me happy. I rip my disks to the server with Imgburn and AnyDVD HD and mount the images on the HTPC with Virtual Clonedrive. I use an ATI 4850 to output HDMI audio and video.
Chris.
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garyfritz
Joined: 08 Apr 2006
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Location: Fort Collins, CO
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Most HD movies are in the 20-25 GB range, I believe. 20 GB for a 2 hour movie is 10 GB / hr, 2.78 MB/sec, or about 22 Mbit/sec. Even with network/protocol overhead, a 100M network is loafing at that speed.
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Z-Photo
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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Location: Huntsville - Alabama
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unless you have mediacom - they really really sux
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