Let the Wii be your key to a wireless home with X-OOM
The best ideas are notoriously simple, just look at the Nintendo Wii: point stick at screen, move stick. And how the public at large has lapped it up, bringing gaming to the masse regardless of age or sex. Now the Wii has got even more versatile, thanks to the X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE.
A downloadable piece of software, the X-OOM Media Centre transforms your Wii in to a wireless receiver. Simply install the software on your PC and let it sniff out your Wii. Once this is done you can add files to the Media Centre. These can then be browsed on the Wii's Internet Channel.
Videos, photos and music can then be streamed to the TV where your Wii is connected and viewed there as opposed to on the PC where the data is stored. The X-OOM Media Centre for Wii XE also makes it possible to browse the Internet, access digital radio and TV channels, plus podcasts, YouTube and Google Video.
X-OOM says the software is "optimised for widescreen and HD programmes", and files supported include MP3, WMA, DivX, MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV.
The software is priced at £30 and is available from www.X-OOM.com – we're persevering with the capital letters until the bitter end – and Amazon.
Comments
Sounds good in theory but don't believe what X-OOM say. Although I had no problems setting this up, when I attempted to stream avi's through my wii to my TV the picture just looks awful. Movement is blocky and slow but the key problem is the "optimised for widescreen and HD programmes", it's simply not true. I cannot get my AVIs to fill the screen, they just show in a little box in the centre of the screen, nowhere near widescreen.
I wrote to X-OOM a few months back not long after I got it up and running and explained the problem - I never got a reply.