To advertise DLNA functionality on a product box requires a license from the DLNA foundation of which Sony is a member, so it is likely that the PS4 will only become officially DLNA-capable with the launch of a new refresh of the console, which is expected to be announced later this year at the Paris Game Show (since this is the first year that Sony is skipping Gamescom). One thing to note about this announcement is that while the app makes the PS4 DLNA-capable, it probably won’t ship like this out of the box for some time.
The announcement was made off-the-cuff in a pre-show segment on Sony’s E3 stream and in a blog entry on Sony’s website. Media Player, creatively named, will be available to download from the PlayStation Store as an app starting today. Well, Sony has finally come through for its fans and has added a new media player feature to the latest PS4 firmware. It was perplexing at the time, as Microsoft’s Xbox One was making very strong pushes to becoming the center of your entertainment once more, and included just about every media feature the Xbox 360 had as well.
As a PlayStation 3 owner who made copious use of the DLNA functionality to stream media to the console, I was disappointed when Sony announced the PlayStation 4 without the same media features.
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