Wireless Video on PSP
Ok now this is pretty cool. If you update your PSP to the new firmware release 2.50, you can now stream video over your wireless home network, or even over the internet at a hotspot if you have a fast enough connection. This is an expansion of Sony’s LocationFree program, which up until now has been supported on certain Sony TVs/Monitors, and on their Vaio notebooks.
The catch is you have to pony up $350 for Sony’s LocationFree wireless base station and software. Attach this thing to your home entertainment center, and you can stream live tv, dvds, or pretty much anything else over the internet to your PSP or PC. With an onscreen “universal remote”, you can control most major brands of a/v devices. So basically you can log in, switch your equipment over to TV, change the channel, and start watching your show over the internet. Pretty slick. Now if they can get it set up so it can rummage around and find the DVD you want, that would be helpful. I guess this is when a massive DVD changer comes in handy.
I think this is a fantastic idea, but they should really let you do at least part of this for free. Logging in to your network and controlling your TV is cool, but most people aren’t going to shell out $350 for it. What they need is an idiot proof server that you can run on your PC, that will let you at least stream your own digital video and music over the net. Now that I would really be interested in. Or partner with TiVo so I can stream my TiVo shows over the net. Yeah, that’ll happen.
