Wii gets X-OOM Media Centre to stream music, films and photos via Wi-Fi
Nintendo hasn’t exactly pushed Wii as a multimedia machine, preferring to focus on the gaming aspects first and foremost. But other companies have a different idea. X-OOM Software has just unveiled its X-OOM Media Centre product, which lets you stream music, movies and photos to your Wii from your PC, using Wi-Fi.
Due out in late October, it’s a Wii application that lets you use the Wiimote to navigate through your media, with not a cable or memory card in sight. It’s capable of handling MP3, WMA and OGG music files; WMV, MPEG 4 and DivX movie files; and JPG or BMP photos.
Oh, and X-OOM promises it’ll give access to over 1,000 online TV channels too. X-OOM Media Centre for Wii will cost £29.99 when it goes on sale next month. Sounds like it’ll be well worth checking out.
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November 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am
This software will not require anything installed on the Wii.
It works like Orb does, in so much as you access content generated on the PC as if it were an interactive website, so you’ll need to have Opera browser running.
It’s a shame that it doesn’t work as an installed Wii channel - when will someone pull their finger out and develop some WiiWare that does this without having to utilize Opera?