Media Centre Now Availible With Nintendo Wii Thanks To X-OOM Software
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Microsoft and Sony’s claims they can provide gamers with media centre qualities over the Nintendo Wii are set to end after an announcement from software maker X-OOM. X-OOM has said it will be launching a new piece of software in October which means that the Nintendo Wii will turn into a fully functional media centre.
The software addition will mean users can access all digital media on a PC via the Wii’s built-in Wi-Fi capability. Users will be able to access their music, photos and films on their Wii without having to have the PC in the same room as them.
For a long time, The Xbox 360 and PS3 have claimed to be ahead in the best console race for their media centres but unlike the Wii, they are unable to play DivX files. Unless you hack a PS3 or Xbox 360 there is no chance of you being able to play DivX files. With the Wii, it comes as standard!
How will this effect the popularity of the three consoles?
The X-OOM Media Centre for Wii is priced at a reasonable £29.99 and will be available online.
Nintendo Wii X-OOM Media Centre: Stream music, video and photos
I noticed this coming out soon as well and I’m anxious to have an option in media centers. To be honest, I’m just not that happy with the use of the Xbox 360 and the need to have XP Media Center edition to get the full effect.
Also, at 29.99 it doesn’t seem to be that bad of a deal.
DIVX coming to MCE shortly elledgedly. The new extenders announced by Microsoft are reported to include DIVX support out of the box, I believe this will include an update for XBOX360.
There is already a great program called TVersity that is for XBOX360, PS3 and the Wii that adds the functionality of media server. And guess what…it’s free. I use it on my PS3 and it works flawlessly. Much better than any other program out there.
i thick that this is good news for nintendo to finaly have a media sorce
This will be cool! I’ll be getting it. By the way…
You don’t need a complicated hack to stream DIVX on the XBox 360, try this:
http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20060321_easy_divx_to_xbox_360_streaming.html