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babolatt Canada312 Posts December 28 2010 23:56 GMT #1 I'd like to share something I've just discovered. An application called PlayOn (www.playon.tv) that allows you to watch many kinds of Internet streams on your xbox 360, ps3, wii etc. There is a 14 day trial, afterwards you are required to either purchase a subscription based membership (yearly) or one larger up-front fee which will cover you forever. I've set this up on xbox 360 only, so I can't comment on the software on other systems, but I assume it's fairly straightforward across other platforms as well. The software is modular, meaning there are many "plugins" that the community develops to allow streaming from different websites that aren't built-in. Essentially, the "server" runs on your PC, downloads streams and transcodes them in real time. Your xbox 360 connects to the PC in "My Videos" and allows you to watch these streams on your TV. I have a fairly beefy PC, but I never see the CPU usage get above 5-10% so I don't think it's extremely resource intensive. Out of the box, I'm able to watch YouTube, comedy central, major news channels etc. Plugins allow me to watch my Day 9 dailies on Ustream, as well as all the archives on blip.tv. The whole thing took me about 20 minutes to set up, and then another 15 mins or so to set up some of the other plugins. It's extremely easy to set up. Now I'm able to watch all my streams on my HD TV without having my PC hooked up to my TV! I've been using it now for a couple of days and have found very few limitations. I highly recommend it. Hope others find this useful!

Bigpon86 United States238 Posts December 29 2010 03:46 GMT #2 This sounds extremely bad ass, thank you so much for this!!!

glamglen United States33 Posts December 29 2010 07:59 GMT #3 You can do this already if you have a PC. A service that does it for you through a console seems silly.

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