@ AmigaNG
use TVersity. It transcodes nearly all formats (apart from ISOs, annoyingly!!) to the PS3.
Excellent software.
Personally, I prefer "PS3 Media Server". It transcodes all formats,
including ISOs, allows you to switch transcoding engines on the fly, turn on/off subtitles from the PS3, and I generally find it streams faster than TVersity (less stuttering and better fastfoward/rewind). Also, PS3 Media Server doesn't require you to update your media database when files are added and internet streams are piped through on demand instead of requiring to be pre-downloaded.
But back on topic... I'm really pleased to see this "hack" or "exploit" or whatever you want to call it. I'm also one of those who bought it as a media player. I only own 4 games for the PS3 and 3 of those are for my kids. Pirated games don't really interest me but the potential homebrew has me excited. If an internet radio app and better browser is made for the PS3 I'll be in heaven! I have to say, the PS3 browser has been my biggest disappointment about the machine. The fact that it
had a browser was why I bought it over an XBox360 but over the years the browser's become more and more useless.
I used to have a nice collection of video sites that worked well with the PS3 but it seems every day fewer of them work. Even Youtube can kill the PS3 sometimes. I used to love loading up Grooveshark to stream music to the PS3 but now that's stopped working too (Grooveshark's using HTML5 now). Heck, even Google doesn't display properly on the PS3 browser. If Sony had bothered to keep their browser up-to-date it would be a much more useful machine. If the only way I'm going to get Internet Radio, Web Video, Facebook, Twitter, etc on my PS3 is by hacking it and installing homebrew, I'll do it. If Sony would ever update their browser so I could do all that from there, I probably wouldn't bother with homebrew and Sony would have at least one less hacked console.
