PSP 3.50 firmware available: "Remote Play" over the Internet

Just released in Japan, Sony's 3.50 firmware for the PSP should making the global rounds soon enough. That, coupled with the latest PS3 firmware update, means you've just scored "Remote Play" functionality -- access to videos, music, and pictures on your home PS3 running 1.80 -- over the Internet. In other words, you can stream media but can't actually play games remotely. The update also includes an RSS Channel Guide but we know it's the remote play you want. The new firmware should already be available via your PSP's Network Update option even though many of Sony's download sites are still pegged at version 3.40.

[Via Impress and CVG]

Read -- Japan release
Read -- US release

[Xavier @ May 31st 2007 4:31AM]

The headline says PSP 1.80 firmware... should be PS3...

C'mon Thomas...

[Thomas Ricker @ May 31st 2007 4:34AM]

meh, it's actually supposed to read 3.50. Thanks.

Thomas

[Gideon @ May 31st 2007 5:49AM]

DarkAlex's OE in 3... 2... 1...

[Escay @ May 31st 2007 7:25AM]

Now someone has to incorporate RemotePlay into MythTV

[gerbick @ May 31st 2007 7:36AM]

I'm downloading it now... in the US.

[Aprime1 @ May 31st 2007 7:40AM]

Wow, finally someone on the Engadget team who can spell Internet right.

[Kamalot @ May 31st 2007 8:08AM]

I don't understand this. Does your PS3 have to remain ON and sucking power all the time in case you may want to access a few short videos? Why not upload them to Youtube instead? Then you'll be able to access them from anything, and not just a PSP and you won't have to leave your PS3 on all the time.

[Big @ May 31st 2007 8:19AM]

Can a PSP watch videos on YOUTUBE?
How about PORNOTUBE>?

[darkstar @ May 31st 2007 8:41AM]

im still waiting to see if Joost would work on psp!!!

[Dean Shelley @ May 31st 2007 8:57AM]

Kamalot: YouTube does not work on my psp...

I won't be accessing a few short videos, my brother has a psp and lives 100 miles away, this way he can view files i upload on my ps3, i.e family home videos and more. He can also check out files on my pc through the media server.

I'm not bothered about playing ps3 games on the psp, if it could do that.. i'd be worried about how i supposedly bought "advanced technology" when the psp can render the games.

By the way.. downloaded it and it works great!

[Neoisamu @ May 31st 2007 9:39AM]

@Dean:

So you can access your media server as well from your PSP through the PS3? Awesome.

[Bolivar Baez @ May 31st 2007 9:41AM]

I wouldn't need to render the graphics, it would just stream the video. Like when you watch an animated movie like "Toy Story", you aren't actually rendering the graphics.

[ArtVandelay @ May 31st 2007 10:03AM]

Awesome! Can't wait to get home and fire my PSP up. The promise of this type of functionality was one of the reasons I bought my PSP and PS3. How cool is it to be able to pull up family photos, home movies, and music from a world away.

[primetime4 @ May 31st 2007 10:45AM]

The PS3 and PSP shared remote play capabilities since the last update. The only difference I noticed with 1.8 is that my PSP connected on the first try as opposed to the second.

[Castle @ May 31st 2007 10:57AM]

Got mine to work installing TVersity & ffmpeg on my PC.

pretty cool.

Xvid movies on PC -> PS3 -> internet -> on my PSP via WiFi

[cduran01 @ May 31st 2007 11:24AM]

Downloaded it and it works GREAT, nice little update. Now what they need to do is add "Wake on Lan" and sleep mode to the PS3. This way I can put my PS3 to sleep and it wakes up when I connect to it with my PSP.

[Wildblue @ Jun 29th 2007 11:58AM]

Dang-it... I hit the wrong reply button. See my post at the bottom re: WOL.

And yes, I realize I'm a month late with this, but I just bought a PSP a few days ago.

[JET @ May 31st 2007 11:47AM]

Wake On LAN and auto sleep mode were supposed to be included with the release. I take it they weren't?

Man, I wish I wasn't at work right now...

JET

[JeffNLA @ May 31st 2007 12:27PM]

Yes, I know it's says PS3 but...

Will this work with a Vista media server somehow?

[Teck @ May 31st 2007 1:37PM]

I guess non of you have heard of PimpStreamer
http://www.pimpware.org/

[Matt @ May 31st 2007 1:43PM]

It looks like that requires a modded PSP, though.

[Teck @ May 31st 2007 2:07PM]

pimpstreamer is one of many reasons to use a custom firmware. it streams movies/pictures/mp3s/ even does youtube (to some extent*rss feed).

[Taz @ May 31st 2007 2:49PM]

Isn't this the same functionality as Slingbox? Effectively 'place-shifting' your media?
Does that mean that Sony Pictures will sue Sony Electronics for copyright theft?

[KC @ May 31st 2007 2:57PM]

@Taz, "place-shifting" is what Sony promotes. They have a location free TV product line that rivals the Slingbox too.

Anyway, this PSP update is almost as cool as the last PS3 update. The tight integration between the PSP and PS3 is nice. Couple that with a Linux media server in the backend (running something like Twonkyvision), you only need to keep all your media in one place and be able to get to it from almost anywhere now.

[Castle @ May 31st 2007 5:48PM]

>>Isn't this the same functionality as Slingbox? Effectively 'place-shifting' your media?

Slingbox won't let you play MP4/Divx/Xvid files from your PC over a WiFi connection, Slingbox will allow you to watch your cable TV however, but its not a media server. At this point they are different.

[dude_rockr @ May 31st 2007 6:18PM]

Man, too bad the Xbox 360 can't do this withthe PSP,or better yet, the 360mini.... NAHHHH-It'll just get bill Gates richer(and who wants that besides Bill Gates?)

[magog29 @ May 31st 2007 11:39PM]

Now all we need is the PSP2. (Please have dual analog sticks and a smaller body).

[M.C. Grammar @ May 31st 2007 11:12PM]

Great article, but forgive my anal attention to detail and permit me to point out that, grammatically speaking, I believe the first sentence would be correct if it read as, "should be making," and not "should making."

[Fruition @ Jun 1st 2007 2:30PM]

I agree about the dual analog sticks... But smaller body? Wouldn't that mean a smaller screen? But I loves my PSP's big screen...

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ Jun 1st 2007 2:24AM]

Is it just me or does that look like a prosthetic hand holding a PSP?

[capagotks @ Jun 1st 2007 8:08AM]

and this would lag how bad? with the psp's Wireless B networking capabillity, it would be quite slow, so wait for psp2 hopefully with N

[michael berliner @ Jun 2nd 2007 5:56AM]

*IF* you could play games streamed from your PS3, would there be any need for a future PSP to even have the games hardware inside it? It could just be a wireless receiver to play your games on which are being spun/on a HD at home!

Hm, maybe that would work when the whole planet is a WiFi network, and we've started sprouting antennas as an unfortunate consequence.

[MartiniMan @ Jun 2nd 2007 7:35PM]

There are several configuration options you can choose to reduce lag (decrease image quality, etc); however, if you have a strong connection there isn't any.

I have found; however, that I'm unable to connect outside of my own house. The PSP connects to the PS3, then five seconds later it disconnects and says the PS3 has timed out. Very aggravating. I have seen others with this issue but to date, no solution.

[Zak @ Jun 28th 2007 4:46PM]

I just downloaded it, and now my PSP can't play any games or videos....why is this?

[wildblue @ Jun 29th 2007 11:57AM]

I don't think "wake on LAN" is going to help anything - I think when you put your PS3 into "Remote Play" mode, it connects to the PSN. Then your PSP connects to the PSN to make the connection with the PS3 - you're not actually connecting right to your home network (which really wouldn't be practical anyway, since I doubt many of you have static IP and/or dynamic DNS setup.) What we need is a way to turn a PC into a bluetooth remote for the PS3 - then you could turn it on and put it in remote mode... remotely.

That being said, TVersity + PC w/500GB drive, + Tivo w/Tivo Desktop = awesome. Watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force on my PSP at the moment.... from work. :D

[joshisawsome @ Aug 27th 2007 12:48PM]

i have internat on my psp but i cant play games or watch a video???????

[allison @ Jul 19th 2008 4:21PM]

How do you change the running speed of the PSP to 333mhz?