Adding IR Remote Control to the Sony
PS3
The Sony PS3 is the jack-of-all-trades of the console world. Not only does it represent some of the
most advanced hardware ever to be dedicated to the business of gaming, but it also has a surprising
number of secondary skills including web browser and media player. But one of the most important
supplementary functions of the PS3 is the unit’s built-in Blu-ray Disc (BD) movie playback. In fact, for
some folks this is the primary reason for purchasing the system – the PS3 is not only one of the best
BD players currently available on the market, but it costs barely half as much as the next
cheapest standalone model.
With Sony’s heavy hyping of the PS3’s extensive media capabilities, it’s disappointing to discover that
they didn’t seem to learn from past history when it comes to integrating the PS3 with audio/video
components.
Back when the original PS2 was released, one of its primary secondary features was that it could play
DVD movies. However, beyond using the wired controller, it lacked any real remote control
capabilities – which made it far from most people’s first choice when it came to DVD playback.
Wireless remote or bust! Sony (et al) listened, and official add-on wireless remote controls began
popping up on the market, each of which included a separate consumer infrared (CIR) receiver that
plugged into one of the PS2’s controller ports. Eventually when the company redesigned the PS2 into
the newer “slim” version in 2004, they built that CIR receiver right into the unit to make the unit more
attractive for movie playback out-of-the-box.
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