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How to Stream Netflix Movies to Your PlayStation 3

Due to the increased popularity of online gaming, the PS3 has built-in WiFi that allows you to directly log on to Hulu with the game system's Web browser. (The PS3 is already a great device for watching movies on a DVD because it has a Blu-ray player).

You can then watch shows as you would on your computer, but there is a major problem: to get video to fit on a large screen requires you to zoom in, resulting in oversized pixels on the TV screen. To watch Netflix and Amazon VOD content, which both use plug-ins the PS3 can't handle, you need to turn one of your home computers into a media server.

Don't panic.

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Raoh5447d ago

been using playon for a while now. well worth the price, bought when it was still $29.99 or cheaper.

there is extra value in the user created plugins as well.

nfl.com, nba.com, adultswim, video podcasts, Local File Streaming, etc etc etc

i rarely even turn on my cable box anymore.

Hallucinate5447d ago

funny how xbots brag about netflix...well ps3 has netflix,hulu,youtube...well basically everything

snaz275447d ago

i just download mine for free straight to the ps3 hdd... great picture most recent movies (even sometimes before there out in the cinema lol), sooooo sorry but netflix? what? lmao

maniacmayhem5447d ago

I do the same,

except I have both my PS3 and 360 hooked to my router with my computer.

so I just stream it from my computers HD

JsonHenry5447d ago

I just have my PC hooked up to my 46" 1080p TV. But it is good to know my PS3 could do this as well if I was in a pinch.

xwabbit5447d ago

lol yah i go to my movie sites on the PS3 and watch em for free

Raoh5447d ago

i download too, but its nice to have access to movies that may not be worth your hard drive space and bandwidth to download. sometimes i come across movies i've never seen and then decide to download or even buy them.

yes i buy movies too. LOL

Hulu is great too.

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Christopher5447d ago

Currently requires streaming from a PC. This would kick so much arse if it could be installed on the PS3 off of the Video XMB rather than having to stream from a PC.

Godmars2905447d ago

Netflix alone doesn't match what Playon does.

dragunrising5447d ago (Edited 5447d ago )

I agree. I am using the 14 day trial of Play On and its great. It would be perfect if your PC didn't have to stay on to use the service. If Play On had native support on PS3, you wouldn't need a network to use it.

@Godmars290

Thats not what he's saying at all. He isn't comparing netflix on 360 to play on. Also, its available for PS3 and 360 so your console superiority agenda is moot.

Godmars2905447d ago

Not a console comparison, but one between Playon and Netflix streaming. By all rights if Playon were an independent program installable on the PS3 the same would probably apply to the 360.

dragunrising5447d ago

I think I know what you mean. As a service PlayOn offers more, I agree. However, its not as streamlined, lacks official support and is handicapped by its own design. I would defiantly pay for PlayOn if I could use it independent of my PC.

Godmars2905447d ago

Why doesn't anyone bring up the fact that to put movies on the 360 queue you have to use a PC? Or that the majority of Netflix's streamed library is worthless?

There's stuff on Hulu I can watch for free that I had to get through the mail from Netflix. Incomplete series discs no less. Part of the reason I canceled my account.

Christopher5446d ago (Edited 5446d ago )

Don't see how you could take it otherwise. I just wish they'd eliminate the need for a PC with PlayOn and put out a version of the app to run directly on the PS3. Kind of like how other countries have video/audio streaming programs available on the PS3.

Yes, this could be done for the 360 as well, but I choose to stream media to my PS3 when I do just because the upscaling is handled better IMHO and my personal preference in hardware. I have also watched Netflix from my 360, but typically only to watch some old episodes of Columbo since I can get everything else on Cable TV or Hulu.

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SSCOOLCHEA5447d ago

Buy a ps3 to watch crappy quality from netflix .

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Fallout 4's 'next gen' update is over 14 gigs, breaks modded saves, & doesn't change much at all

We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.

isarai7h ago

Wow what the actual hell 🤣🤣🤣

just_looken6h ago

This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.

On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.

Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...

Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken

Valkyrye5h ago

Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.

just_looken3h ago

There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods

There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.

On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.

Inverno1h ago

lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.

porkChop27m ago

The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.

Chocoburger1h ago

Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.

Par for Bethesda.

Aussiesummer15m ago

It's not a remaster, it's a next gen update.

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Why Monopolies In Gaming Must Not Be Allowed

As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.

thorstein5h ago

Shouldn't be allowed in any field.

Inverno1h ago

And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.

jwillj2k450m ago

Eventually they’ll realize the value is with the employee not the company. Buying an IP means nothing if the people who contributed are let go. They’ll get it one day.

MrCrimson9m ago

tech is different because they buy threats and then kill them. Twitter bought Vine and did nothing with it. Despite people seemingly liking it. Could've had tiktok a decade before bytedance. go figure.

Zenzuu1h ago

Monopolies shouldn't be allowed regardless. Not just for gaming.

MrCrimson11m ago

They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -

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Gears of War Voice Actor Hints At New Game Announcement Coming In June

A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.

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Ra303024m ago

Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.