The Joys of Remote Play

I've got both a PS3 and PSP, but up until recently I was too lazy to utilize one of their most compelling cooperative features - Remote Play.  So I pulled my PSP out of the drawer it's been sitting idle in for nearly a year to try to figure out this Remote Play thing.  For those unfamiliar with this feature, basically the way it works is if you're out in the wild (well, out in the wild near a Wi-Fi hotspot) with your PSP, you can access features and content on your PS3 that's sitting at home.  It's similar in theory to Remote Desktop for PCs.  But where this becomes a great deal of fun is that I'll trot my PSP to work, and during my lunch break, I'll use my work's Wi-Fi hotspot to turn on, access, and watch videos that I have stored my PS3's hard drive.  I took it to the next level yesterday by leaving my PC on as a Media Server, and having my PSP tell the PS3 to stream videos and music off of my PC's hard drive.  So now I can catch up on any TV here at work during my lunch hour, and after the show's over, I just tell my PSP to shut down my console at home.  It also works for games - supposedly you can play certain PS3 games on your PSP and have the PS3 handle all of the horsepower consuming tasks - but I haven't tried that yet.

This whole process works really well for streaming stuff off of the PS3 HD, but I've noticed some lag trying to pull content off of my PC's Media Server.  I've been using it in an effort to re-watch all of the Season 3 of Lost before the big season premiere this Thursday.  Too bad we're only getting eight episodes this coming season - they'd better be awesome.