I still think the Media Center/Home server with the 360 as an extender is a better approach than this.
Live TV with pause/ff/rw, Recording as many chanels as you have tuners for, guide, record while you play games.. all of it. Plus watching on other extenders, on other computers, burning shows to DVD.
The PS3 "solution" just seems so limited. Maybe I am missing something.
I think you are missing something. The PS3 and the 360 sit right underneath your TV. Why should it be necessary to stream TV from a computer possibly running in another room when the PS3 can do it for itself? Streaming may have purposes but convenient it is not.
Anyway if you want to stream TV on a PS3 you can do that already. The PS3 has DNLA support too.
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I still think the Media Center/Home server with the 360 as an extender is a better approach than this.
Live TV with pause/ff/rw, Recording as many chanels as you have tuners for, guide, record while you play games.. all of it. Plus watching on other extenders, on other computers, burning shows to DVD.
The PS3 "solution" just seems so limited. Maybe I am missing something.
I think you are missing something. The PS3 and the 360 sit right underneath your TV. Why should it be necessary to stream TV from a computer possibly running in another room when the PS3 can do it for itself? Streaming may have purposes but convenient it is not.
Anyway if you want to stream TV on a PS3 you can do that already. The PS3 has DNLA support too.