Run Windows MCE Applications on Xbox 360

BlueMoon writes "A user of the GA-forum found out the Media Extender on the Xbox 360 allows to stream Windows MediaCenter applications over network on your Xbox 360 console. While the applications themselves will run on the MCE PC, it'll stream the interface/input to the Xbox360/PC. Simple MCE apps like those modified browsers to pull down news stories, stock quotes, sports scores etc., as well as several internet radio clients worked fine. Mini-games like a Tetris clone and some card game crashed, but then again ... that seems to be a normal behaviour for the 360."

Comments

Who wants this?

[Anonymous Coward]

VNC/Xbox? WTF?

Some card game crashed

[Anonymous Coward]

I got my XBox 360 to play solitare for hours at a time by moving the cards very very slowly. Trying to complete a game too quickly lead to overheating. And don't even try playing minesweeper as sporadic explosions have been reported.

Show off ;)

[garcia]

My guess is that it will be difficult to get anything other than simple casual games to run in real time using the interface, due to lag in response times.

Sounds like a worthwhile application, no? I mean, nothing like spending $400+ on a dumb-terminal to play laggy Solitare on a huge TV (this guy was just showing off his Sony HD monitor) and have it crash after a bit.

But I would think getting something like a full web browser up and running should be achievable.

He means porn. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure what the advantages would be to having an unstable browser session open on a huge monitor.

Re:HDTV, and how I helped MS lose money

[whitehatlurker]

If he doesn't buy any, then they don't need to produce any, and therefore don't lose any money.

OMG - you mean by not buying an XBox ... I'm helping the enemy!?

so let me get this straight

[rednuhter]

so let me get this straight, if you have a TV connected to a MCE system and XBox360 connected to another TV then you can view apps running on the MCE system ?
Why not just look at the other TV ?

To nit-pickers, when I say TV I mean any video output device.

Revenge!

[Anonymous Coward]

"However, it does not mean that all systems are defective; so please, grow the hell up and stop making it sound like all 360s have issues!"

Why not? Since when does slashdot want to be fair to a convicted monopoly that's given them grief for decades? This is our revenge. Don't take that away from us.

Re:HDTV, and how I helped MS lose money

[Otter]

...especially if that domination is likely to be ended by some other company (Google, etc).

I'm amazed that we have yet to see a single story insisting that the Xbox is doomed in the face of the impending Google Video Game Console and its revolutionary AJAX-based games...

Priorities

[nuintari]

Uhhh, show me that you can run an xbox 360 game on an xbox 360 and I'll be more impressed at this point....

Re:that seems to be a normal behaviour for the 360

[rograndom]

Sigh....I have a 360 and nope no crashes, no problems, no inner need-to-bash-microsoft for the sake of it.

Haven't taken it out of the box yet, huh?

Re:Interest Piqued

[UnknowingFool]

I have not special love for Microsoft but no special hatred either . . .

You must be new here.

Re:about the unstableness..

[oscartheduck]

I used to repair VCRs. As soon as one came in, the first thing we did was verify it didn't work. If it didn't, the second thing we did was lift it six inches and drop it, turn it on and see if it worked now. If it did, that's an hour's work and an easy sixty bucks. If that didn't work, we opened them up and sprayed them with compressed air, tried to see if it came on. If it didn't, look for an obvious cause, if no obvious cause then you bill the manufacturer on the warranty for a new VCR and consider the matter settled.

Never underestimate how often a six inch drop will do the job.