Playstation 3 is more than gaming, as console can also serve as a digital movie library. Whether it's utilized for feature films, home movies or TV shows downloaded from Internet, Playstation 3 gives opportunity for a state of the art digital media set some button-clicks away.

Instructions

Setting up the Playstation 3

1. Earlier than you do anything, you must first obtain movie files. The two best file formats for watching movies on Playstation 3 are .AVI and .MP4. These kinds of files are frequently made by home video cameras and then saved on PC. TV shows downloaded from Internet are usually in .MP4 format. Many times, movies can be bought in one of these file formats over Internet.

2. Connect exterior hard-drive to PC and save all movie files. This takes some minutes, based on number and size of files. This is also time when you can arrange movies into subcategories, if select to do so.

3. Take out exterior hard-drive from PC and connect it into any one of USB adapters placed at front of Playstation 3 console.
Accessing the Movies

4. Switch on Playstation 3 and utilize controller over to "Video" category on screen.

5. Utilize controller to arrow down to name of exterior hard-drive.

6. Push button on controller and choose "Display all." A pop-up menu with all files will then show on the screen.

7. Select movie you want to watch and push "X" knob to play it.