I very rarely (never) write anything of any use on this blog but after spending an entire evening trying to get my PSP working with remote play for remote PlayTV viewing I thought I’d share my findings.

For anyone else that is having problems getting PlayTV working over remote play on PSP quite simply remove the 720p option from the PS3 display settings options. For some reason the PSP doesn’t like it and after a black screen for a few minutes a timeout error occurs.

Why the hell Sony don’t tell anyone these sort of useful facts I have no idea. I’m getting increasingly frustrated by Sony and their lack of support and informative tutorials for the Playstation 3. There’s no denying the PS3 is a great piece of kit but why the hell should I have to spend 6 hours trying to find an answer to a problem that shouldn’t be there? Do Sony do any testing at all on the stuff they’re releasing?

They’re pitching this technology as something everyone can do. They portray an illusion that it’ll just work out of the box and we’ll all be remote playing and remote watching PlayTV in minutes but the truth is that it’s actually quite a complex scenario that’s at play here and even the most tech savvy people are struggling to get this technology working.