# Does anyone use 7th generation consoles as media centers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-use-7th-generation-consoles-as-media-centers/519427>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 30, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-use-7th-generation-consoles-as-media-centers/519427 "2009-11-30T03:28:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-use-7th-generation-consoles-as-media-centers/519427/41 "2010-03-10T23:42:48Z")

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Nope, didn’t even see the folder which had previously seen on the laptop. I restarted everything as well to do as much resetting as I could.

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**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-use-7th-generation-consoles-as-media-centers/519427/42 "2010-03-11T00:17:08Z")

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Have you confirmed that the files are compatible with the PMC? Perhaps if there isn’t a single compatible file in the folder PMC chooses to not display it at all. I don’t use PMC so I can’t say precisely, but on my 360 it completely ignores anything that’s not in a format it can use and it doesn’t preserve original folder structures instead pooling media into a single interface when using WMC. Not sure what it does with USB storage though.

Since you’re using TVersity I’d keep investigating the file-type issue. TVersity’s entire purpose for being is to transcode media so perhaps you don’t have any formats that are [native](http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/video/filetypes.html) to PS3.

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-use-7th-generation-consoles-as-media-centers/519427/43 "2010-03-11T01:31:47Z")

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When the folder was in “My Videos” on c: PMS saw the folder (and files). I moved it whole and intact to f: (the external), and it can’t see it/them. Weird.

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