On my recent house-hunting trip in Singapore, finally bit the bullet and bought a PS3. Oh, plus bonus was out too :)

Got the 120GB Sg unit from ERA Gaming in Plaza Singapura for SGD495 plus a free HDMI cable. Paid an additional SGD70 for another controller, SGD30 for LBP (what a steal) and SGD68 for NFS:Shift (what a dud). I really thought it was going to be as good as Forza on the XBox was, but I was quite disappointed. Kudos > “Style Points”.

Upon coming back to KL, I hooked the PS3 up to the router without any problems, and installed PS3 Media Server on both Macbooks. Turned the PS3 on, made sure it was connected to the network and PMS on either Macbook did not have any trouble detecting the PS3.

PMS: On the Navigation/Share settings tab, I added my /Movies folder.

PS3: It auto-detected the Media Server share (as XXXX.local) and loaded up the contents of the folder pretty quickly. There were significant lags though on accessing Roz’s Movies folder share due to the sheer number of files in it. I presume this is because of the thumbnailing process for each file.

Sleek (yes, that’s the PS3′s name) loaded up both DivX and XVid files with no issues. Tested Pan’s Labyrinth and the .srt subtitles loaded up beautifully too.

What a fantastic machine. No regrets on the purchase. The wife and I now have an excuse to watch TV shows outside in the lounge :)

Now if only FFXIII and GOWIII could come any faster…