Truth be told, I haven't really kept up with Dashhacker's progress on his reverse engineering of the PS3's Remote Play feature. It's still good to hear that he's made great strides towards finally releasing a usable app, though. There's even talk of an Open Remote Play beta out by Friday.

The architecture that Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is based upon allows peer-to-peer networking of PC units, networked appliances, and even some wireless devices. Sony's PlayStation 3 clearly fits into that list but it's kind of curious why people haven't tried it yet on the console.

Online site PS3mods has compiled a list of UPnP media servers for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and Python. They mentioned that among the ones listed below, they were only able to test Nero MediaHome. It was working alright but it wasn't a perfect fit.

Feel free to try the media servers below yourselves. If the PS3 is compatible with any of these, the media servers will appear on the XMB right away, doing away with accessing the web browser first.

• Allegro Media Server (Mac OSX, Windows - commercial)
• Cidero Internet Radio Server (Java - open source)
• Cyberlink Digital Home Enabler Kit (Windows - commercial)
• CyberMediaGate - (C++ - open source)
• EyeConnect - (Mac OSX - commercial)
• Fuppes (Windows, Linux, port to NAS has been reported - open source)
• Geexbox (Linux - open source)
• GMediaServer (Linux - open source)
• MediaTomb (Linux, port to NAS has been reported - open source)
• Musimatch Jukebox (Windows - commercial)
• MythTV (Linux - open source)
• Nero MediaHome (Windows - commercial)
• On2Share (Windows - commercial)
• PyMeds (Python - open source)
• Rhapsody (Mac, Windows - commercial)
• SimpleCenter (Java Based - commercial)
• TVersity (Windows - closed source, currently free)
• TwonkyVision (Linux, Windows, NAS - commercial)
• uShare (Linux, NAS - open source)
• Windows Media Connect (Windows - closed source, currently free)