Podcast: Using a Mac Mini as a video server

HT Guys from HTguys.com talk about how to take your mac mini and turn it into a video server. There is good info about software and storage ideas.

Podcast

Is PS3 the way to go for on-line movies?

DVD is dead. Blu-ray, hd-dvd, it's all a waste of time. While static media has its place, downloading movies is the way it will be done in the future. You can do it with appleTV, Comcast, FIOS, Netflix, and Xbox360. Sony will surely do it with PS3 as well.

So what does this mean for the content you can get? Sony as a content distributor may have a hard time making deals with Disney, or Paramount because they are competitors. Does this mean that Apple and Microsoft are in the right place because they are content provider neutral?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/12/nmicrosoft112.xml

Can't stream network media to PSP

So I found out today that you can only stream media to your PSP if it is physically on your PS3 hard drive. I have to think that it's a matter of time until someone figures a way to get around this. What about connecting a large external drive to your PS3 and having all your media reside there? I found this post on PS3forums.com talking about connecting external drives to the PS3.
http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=83445

This of course brings up a few questions. The main one being, if all of my media resides on a external drive connected to the PS3, can I still access that media on my network? If my only goal is to be able to access my media anywhere with a PSP then this may be a good idea. However, I like to have all of my data organized and a traditional file server that can be accessed anywhere in my house seems like the better thing to do.