PlayOn's media serving software is now available (in beta form) on the Nintendo Wii.
I use PlayOn on both the 360 and the PlayStation 3, and it is awesome. It allows you to make the future happen on your PS3 by letting you stream Netflix movies to your TV, as well as feeding Amazon VOD, Hulu and other internet video to both game systems. The Wii version will bring the same functionality to Nintendo's device, potentially making the Wii a viable, cheap media extender with an awesome point-and-click remote control. If it works, I could easily see the Wii as the center of an internet media enabled entertainment system.
You can download the new version of PlayOn to your Windows computer (sorry, Mac users) right now and give it a shot: Although eh software costs 40 bucks, PlayOn offers a free trial. If it works as flawlessly as the 360 and PS3 versions have worked for me, that's a very small price to pay for a great program... of course, my PS3 and 360 are both wired to my network. I'm not sure how smooth the Wii's wireless functionality will be when streaming video.
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DVirus008
i love PlayOn! ive been using it for bout 3 months now and i probly wont go back to cable for awhile now. this is doing me jus fine and what i cant get on PayOn i can get on my Xbox360. all is good!!!
nickux
I have yet to get PlayOn to actually play a video using my Wii or PS3.
slvchris
PlayOn rocks. I hate that I have to pay for it.
sukTHEfacc
hah. i will never pay. Go torrent sites!
cashbrown
I use PlayOn and it's worth every penny. I stream using wireless from a mid-range laptop with no problems.
Scottydsntknow
anyone know of a good streaming program to stream netflix from a mac to a ps3?
Saiman40
So we have to pay $40 to download to computer to stream to the tv? Have the computer hooked to the Wii then?
Sorry, I'm a noob when it comes to all this techonology. I still don't own a text machine (cell phone)
UndiscoveredBum
Vuze (formally Azereus) does something similar to this. You can stream whatever you have on your computer to your 360 all w drag and drop.... its the most baller 3rd party software I have ever seen. I can search / dl / play on 360 all w 1 program. Amazing and virus free! Vuze with the blue frog. Thank me later. Just another reason the 360 owns the PS3
Shockwave562
Also, Rivet works on Mac/Windows and works for PS3/360
Shockwave562
no Mac support? I'll stick with Rivet for my media sync. it works on my mac using my itunes, and iphoto library to stream all my music, movies, tv shows and pictures to the tv.
although Xbox already has netflix I will admit hulu would be nice
TKEmysterio
I've tried both PlayOn and TVersity for my PS3. Here's my take on both:
PlayOn: Great for streaming things from the net. What's really cool about it is that anyone can make a plugin for it to pull from other sources than the ones PlayOn comes with. Heck... you can even stream pr0n. What PlayOn doesn't do effectively is stream content from your actual computer to your TV. Considering my PS3 is hardwired into the network I should be able to fast forward, rewind, etc. fairly quickly. But with PlayOn it doesn't work that way.
TVersity: Is the exact opposite of PlayOn.... It's great for streaming content from your PC (you can pause, fast forward, rewind etc. without it ever getting stuck), but sucks at streaming content from the net. It also has a horrible menu system for online content compared to PlayOn.
So.... I would suggest to anyone to get both programs to use them to their strengths. I use TVersity for PC streaming and PlayOn for Internet streaming.
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