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- bitterg, on 02/20/2008, -8/+103A Wii Media Center is a ***** media center. Sorry, but you'd be much, much, much better off with a original Xbox.
- Bing11, on 02/20/2008, -5/+80"The best thing the Nintendo Wii got going for it is the excellent Opera web browser"
Actually, I'd say it's the good Wii-exclusive games. At least those are why I bought a Wii, not hopes that I could watch movies on it. That's why I bought a DVD player. - booticon, on 02/20/2008, -5/+80As I said on Lifehacker: if you give a ***** about video quality, as Orb transcodes, eBay an Xbox and install XBMC on it. It supports SMB, and it can play just about any format under the sun.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -3/+76i think i'll just stick with the old pc hooked up to the tv.
- ghank, on 02/20/2008, -3/+47480p on a 52" TV looks like total crap. I love my Wii, but to use it as a media center is full of fail.
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -3/+36I tried this some time ago. The video quality looks like ass. Such a shame, really.
- yohnstoppable, on 02/20/2008, -5/+38Why do that when you can use it to stream youtube quality videos to your wii?!!!?!?!?!?!?!!??
- revjustin2, on 02/20/2008, -2/+34I don't think the intent of this article is to convince people to run out and buy a Wii to use as a Media Center. This is more of a perk for people who already own a Wii and would like to play around with it a bit and extend it's functionality. People serious about having a computer-based media set-up would probably bypass gaming consoles in general and go straight to a PC or other, more dedicated media center solution.
- maxradical, on 02/20/2008, -11/+38This is where any technology really excels - when the innovative components are developed and released, then the users and the whole wide web are able to come up with applications themselves. It's awesome to see the Wii benefiting from this huge potential!
- spyrochaete, on 02/20/2008, -6/+29Unfortunately the Wii is underpowered for this task. It's fine for viewing photographs and streaming music, but it's just not powerful enough to render fullscreen streaming video. I tried Orb a few months ago and found that I could watch content in a window up to about 75% of full screen, but any bigger than that and it started skipping frames. The same is true of YouTube and Google Video.
I think the Opera browser is the bottleneck here. If there were a native application for the Wii that streamed content over the LAN instead of over the internet it might just do the trick. - doshindude, on 02/20/2008, -0/+23Sounds great, but I already have the 360 all configured for this stuff...so I'll stick to playing games on the Wii. This would be amazing if it could work remotely though.
- ddrhazy, on 02/20/2008, -1/+22That statement is correct jull. There are tons of emulators for xbox, there's the XBMC which plays any video format you can throw at it, there's samba file streaming, the xbox is a monster when modded.
- Ganja420, on 02/20/2008, -1/+20The wii can't do high def...
- WorldGroove, on 02/20/2008, -1/+19XBMC is written in C++ and runs natively.
This "WiiMC" is through the Opera-Browser. - pgrit154, on 02/20/2008, -2/+19Sweet... in its 480p glory and being streamed over my LAN onto the Wii.... I think that my PS3 has this covered in HD, and with little effort. I'll leave the Wii to what it does best... sit there and wait for Mario Kart to come out.
- solidus636, on 02/20/2008, -3/+19Why didn't you just reply to that comment?
- spyrochaete, on 02/20/2008, -0/+16However, I'll add that Orb is really handy for watching streaming versions of your media library from remote locations. If you travel a lot and you don't want to miss TV shows you've downloaded this is a really handy bit of free software. The Wii functionality is an added benefit, not the primary function.
- coit, on 02/20/2008, -2/+18My wii is so extended that.... er, nevermind.
- PHovey, on 02/20/2008, -4/+20My wii is so extended that you can play movies on it.
- GeorgeStone2, on 02/20/2008, -5/+20Meeeeehhhhhhh.
- whahaa, on 02/20/2008, -1/+15'unfortunately the wii is underpowered for the task...'
i don't own a wii so please excuse the stupid question... i'd thought the wii had comparable processing power to an old xbox... my old xbox with xbmc can stream everything fine except high def... why can't the wii do the same? - Otto, on 02/20/2008, -1/+15Yes, in fact, I can. It cost me about $10 and a few minutes of messing about with a screwdriver.
http://xir.us/
http://www.xbox-scene.com/articles/xir.php - danutsnet, on 02/20/2008, -2/+13Why would you get a WII for browsing the internet? :|
- LogicBomB, on 02/20/2008, -1/+11Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
- oldhick, on 02/20/2008, -1/+10I agree with GerbilSoft, thats a symptom of a really ***** hidef TV. I have a 62" DLP that makes 480p content look gorgeous. Now its obviously not as nice as my 1080p HD-DVDs (yeah, I'm a sucker), but still good.
- Eldorian, on 02/20/2008, -1/+10A better alternative is to use TVersity.
Orb sucks. - Bing11, on 02/20/2008, -3/+12You know this Media Center functionality isn't from Nintendo, right?
- davidwasman, on 02/20/2008, -3/+11Lifehacker is another of Gawker Media's whore sites that spams digg (along with gizmodo, jalopnik, gawker, i09, valleywag, kotaku, etc...)
They are using digg to bring traffic to their sites. I'm sure you recognize all of them in the list above.
Last week alone they had no less than 6 of their sites on Digg's front page at once. - pintomp3, on 02/20/2008, -0/+8same here, especially since the wii doesn't have any digital audio outputs. not so great for movies. but for someone who doesn't have a computer hooked up to their tv but do have a wii, this is a lot better than nothing.
- Otto, on 02/20/2008, -0/+8XBox's were only warrantied for 1 year anyway. So, considering they haven't been made since August 2005 (when NVidia stopped making their GPU's) , it's a safe bet that yours is already out of warranty.
- nirav72, on 02/20/2008, -0/+8@spyrochaete - In case you didn't read Otto's comment properly - His warranty was pretty much voided when he added a mod chip to run XBMC.
- mugicha, on 02/20/2008, -1/+9You obviously haven't seen one in its full glory.
- dickardo, on 02/20/2008, -0/+8They're talking about the original Xbox, not Xbox 360.
- barnis, on 02/20/2008, -4/+11x.264 ;(
- inactive, on 02/20/2008, -4/+11Buried as redundant...
http://www.digg.com/search?section=all&s=wii+orb
The PS3 and 360 (esp. for TV) are 100x better media streamers BTW - veriix, on 02/20/2008, -2/+8Novelty at best, if you want practicality, like people said, get an original xbox. Plays everything but hi-def.
- oldhick, on 02/20/2008, -1/+7Please explain the mini being best and why don't you simply get a DVI card for your pc with an HDMI adapter. I have a pc I spent less than $450 on playing HD video, playing my quad-channel DTS cd's and anything else I want to do.
I'll grant you that mac minis look cooler, but they're just way over priced. - iamthejeff, on 02/20/2008, -2/+8I was hoping this would at least let me stream over my home network, rather than up to the Orb servers and back down to my Wii.
"full-fledged"?... hardly. - oldhick, on 02/20/2008, -1/+7What did you smoke this morning? You have no digital audio on your Wii and it can't do HD so your comparison to the 360 went out the window. Your lack of storage space and customization hampers your old Xbox comparison.
However, I do agree the controller is pretty bad ass. - AmazingAndrex, on 02/20/2008, -1/+7Full-screen YouTube works 100% fine for me...
- user7, on 02/20/2008, -1/+7woohoo 480p!
- countingthedays, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5Probably just not optimized yet. Its a 700Mhz PPC, so it could probably handle it.
- mrgreen4242, on 02/20/2008, -2/+7If Nintendo released a media center app/channel for the Wii and hooked up with Netflix for on demand movie, too it would make it a great purchase. I'm still waiting for the first price drop to get a Wii, but I'd buy one @$250 if it was a good media center extender. I already have a 360 that works as a decent media frontend (good format support and image quality, but the UI is pretty bad and the streaming/buffering setup is just plain terrible - it seems to refuse to buffer more than a few seconds worth, even if I leave it paused for a significant amount of time. Spikes in the bitrate of VBR files kill it about half the time) but I'd like to move the 360 and still have access to my media at its current location.
- wetard57, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5i do
- iRelinquish, on 02/20/2008, -2/+7can the wii play h.264?
- ziptnf, on 02/20/2008, -1/+6I'm extremely disappointed.
The quality kinda sucks, it's slow, the user interface blows, and the massive internet toolbar is at the bottom. I'd rather just buy an HTPC. - wendelgee2, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5There's plug-in memory though. Couldn't you make use of that....it's like putting a saddle on a german shepherd, but still.
- mrboratsagdiev, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5Not to mention XBMC can also play over 500 live television channels streamed from the Net, whereas Orb cannot reliably:
http://www.op9.net/tag/xbmc-tv/ - whahaa, on 02/20/2008, -0/+5nice, makes sense. thanks.
- spyrochaete, on 02/20/2008, -1/+5You could buy a Wii and a 360 for the price of a Mac Mini. Why is the Mini best?
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