Connecting PS3 to a Window Vista PC

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10/21/08 at 10:33am

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Hello all.. new to these forums, have looked around quite a bit. I am pretty challenged when it comes to hooking up media extenders and so forth, but I really would like to get the most out of my technology.

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I have a PS3 and an HP notebook with Window Vista Premium. I have a wireless home network with an N router. The PS3 is connected to the router via a powerwire adapter for faster speeds.

I have tried numerous times to use the DME function of my PS3 with no success. Can anyone offer a step by step help to doing this? Or direct me to a site that has it for rookie technology folks like me?

Thanks for your help.

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10/21/08 at 10:53am

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In Vista, after you turn on the 'media sharing' option in Windows Media Player 11 (its under "librabry"), everything should -more or less- go automatically (including the setting of an exception in your firewall). Another option is to install TVersity.

However, as I experienced (and described in a different thread), if you have a Netflix account and desire to use PlayOn for Netflix's Instant View streaming (I'm a big fan of it now), it is better to stay with WMP 11 in my opinion.

(by the way... you can't use the PS3 as a media extender for Vista's MCE if that's what you were thinking. You have to use WMP)

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