It's a huge waste to treat PS3 simply as a game console. For wise users, they may also use it as a Blu-ray player, a capacious hard drive disk, a HTPC, a online video streamer (Netflix service), etc. And on this page we will teach you how to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen.

Traditional PS3 video playback solution is physically copying your files to a USB drive, memory card or CD/DVD, which is pretty straightforward, or streaming your video over the network, which is where things get more fun and interesting. However, PS3 is not a video format factory which can read ALL media types natively, so you have to transcode source videos to PS3 supported formats as below:

MPEG-4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 PS, MPEG-2 TS, AVI, AVCHD, DivX, WMV

Though PS3 can handle a large number of the codecs you will find commonly: AVI, MPEG (1, 2 and 4), H.264, DivX/XviD, and WMV, and if a particular format you want to play isn't supported, you need to find one way to convert it to work on the fly. BDlot Video Converter is versatile program which can help you convert almost all video formats to PS3 readable file.

How to Stream Videos from PC to PS3 - TVersity works just as well for the PS3 to stream videos through the air. With Tversity set up and sharing turned on, just browse to COMPUTERNAME: TVersity in the XMB and you'll see a listing of all your shared files. Maybe you have backup your DVDs onto computer in your preferred video format (a compromise of quality and file size). But sometimes chances are they will miss the original subtitles or surrounding sounds after ripping DVD to computer hard disk.

By converting DVD to MPEG2 format, you can get rid of this trouble and make full DVD content backup as individual MPEG2 video. And BDlot DVD Clone Ultimate is a tool made for this. Its Clone DVD to Single MPEG2 File option can help you extract DVD content to computer hard drive or USB drive with original video quality and source 5.1 sounds. And it output MPEG2 file will play smoothly upon all models of PS3.