In terms of video quality enhancement, the PS3 and I’m sure the newer consoles like the XBox and PS4, are unbelievable. However, I’ve never used it with PLEX or some other sort of NAS with DLNA capability to see how good it is at remaining compatible with the menagerie of formats my old college tv shows and movies tend to be formatted in, from like, 2006, lol. I also like that Sony, through its software, keeps this up with the optimizations built into the software at the lowest level to max out the video and audio quality without any intervention from “us”, per se. It’s really nice in that way.Ĭomparing youtube or netflix streaming from my SmarTv versus the Raspberry Pi versus my PS3, there is no comparison (on picture quality). The reason I’ve started out on the game console side is not because I’ve done it, but because the consoles are so highly engineered for “repairing” or “upgrading” the picture quality of whatever you’re streaming, from where ever it comes from locally or remote. So your PS4 can display films, TV shows and other bits from your PC, youll have to set up the PC so that it acts as a media server. Downloading and Setting up Universal Media Server. The Media Player app on your PS4 can play stuff thats being shared from a PC in your house. Well, I haven’t proposed media recording as a function of such a setup, though I wouldn’t doubt that that would be a desirable function to have in addition to everything else. Universal Media Streamer and the PS4 Media Player App.

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