Playstation 3 as a Sage Extender? How difficult?

[emok]

I'm not sure if I'm the first one to bring this up, but it sounds like it would be somewhat popular to use the PS3 as a HD extender for SageTV if it could be supported.

-- PS3 is designed to be in the living room.
-- PS3 supports HD formats up to 1080p.
-- PS3 price could be somewhat reasonable
-- PS3 can run Linux and there already is a linux drop-in version of sage.

It doesn't sound like it would be extremely hard. I'm not an expert by any means. I don't yet own a PS3 (the keyword is "yet").

Anyone have any comments? How difficult would you imagine it would be to support PS3 as an extender?

Am I just too wishful?

[Crashless]

It seems to me that since the PS3 supports a couple of varieties of linux, it wouldn't be that hard to get a client running on it. The problem would be getting some sort of remote to work with it.

[emok]

Sony is supposed to be releasing a bluetooth remote that works with the PS3. Not sure if this hardware (bluetooth receiver) will be accessible through linux. USB-UIRT could also be a possibility if only there were linux support as well.

Guess I need to get that PS3 to play around with, first.

Any other major hurdles? I guess it will also depend on their linux support for the RSX GPU.

[bcjenkins]

Yes, don't forget the architecture differences. Sony on cell?

[emok]

Hmmm...

According to this, they (Terra Soft YDL5.0) do not yet support PS3 bluetooth and RSX beyond framebuffer mode. That sounds like a problem.

In addition, we'd need a JVM that runs on cell architecture.

I'm not sure what other distros of linux there are out there with support for PS3.