Xbox media centre

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I saw this thing for sale yesterday at Look&Listen called an Xbox Media Centre something for 399.00.

Apparantly it allows you to stream DivX and other formats to the box and the package includes an ethernet cable.

Does anyone know the exact name of it so I can google? Perhaps a link? Is it simply software? Anyone have?

Thanks
 
Try Tiversity, think it does the same thing
 
Do you mean a Media Centre extender? Was it a physical box, or a piece of software?

The 360 is already an MC Extender and can stream media from your PC provided you're running Media Player 11, Windows XP Media Centre edition, or Windows Vista Home premium.

TVersity is also an excellent option (The one I use atm, it's free) Although, if you want to stream Divx You need a pretty beefy PC (360 runs wmv natively so TVersity transcodes on the fly) MCE
 
I'll check TVersity, thanks.

It may have been extender. It looked like a physical box and mentioned extra formats that could be streamed. I'll google that too.

But why sell it if the Xbox itself is an extender?
 
It may be exactly what you said, just support for the additional formats the 360 doesn't natively support, yet. (Rumour is that Dvix/Xvid support will ship in the fall update)
 
So TVersity doesn't require MCE? Or does it for certain formats?

You can stream to a Wii???
 
TVersity is completely stand alone. You don't need MCE WMP or anything like that.

It may however require a specific codec pack, check that.
 
I wish someone would've told me that before... I kinda reformatted everything just so I can have MCE and turned out I never needed it :)
 
Well if you've got a clean machine you might as well go for it, or if it's an option go for Vista Home Premium which includes all the MCE components.
 
AcidRaZor said:
I wish someone would've told me that before... I kinda reformatted everything just so I can have MCE and turned out I never needed it :)
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Yeah! Me too... It took me yonks to work out how to install MCE. My PC is stuttering a bit at the moment and I was dreading a reinstall - now I can install 'Vanilla' XP Pro (and actually have a legal copy of Windows).

Wanna, wanna give TVersity a bit of a run tonight. I think I'm even more excited about the prospect of running it through the Wii than the 360 :D
 
Could I point out a flaw in your plan?

doobiwan said:
Well if you've got a clean machine you might as well go for it, or if it's an option go for Vista Home Premium which includes all the MCE components.
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:D

But Vista is easiest when it comes to streaming to the 360 (or so I've heard).
 
Hwy, Vista aint that bad.

..If you've got a decent PC.
..And no exotic hardware.
..or aren't using an old notebook.
..or don't mind relearning a few things ;)
 
Ok, tried out TVersity. Works almost as well as Media Centre (but with less of a struggle - Media Centre is, once again, refusing to connect). Works nicely with 360 - you can't fast forward or rewind tho.

Wanted to give it a go on the Wii - but after a 120Mb download, changing my home country to UK and navigating the immense data hog that is the Wii Shop Channel I found the Opera browser costs 500 points (which is about $5 I think). What a load of bullsh!t.

Is this the only way to get the Wii browser?
 
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