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."

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[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!?

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: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.