This is a short post, but one filled with geek joy nonetheless. Orb has been around for quite some time, and I've used it as far back as 2005, IIRC, trying to stream the ACC Tournament so I could watch it at work. While that was mostly a miserable failure on my part, it was a cool experiment, and I occasionally would mess around with Orb some more from time to time.
Just to fill you in so you don't have to click on any of the links above, once you have a pc with Orb installed and running, you can then access your content from anywhere on the net. Except behind company firewalls like mine, because they are the sUck. You can view your pics, stream music and videos, and even watch tv with supported tuners. To top it all off, you can even use the Orb interface to schedule recordings with your tuner, which makes it somewhat like a Tivo in terms of web control.
Recently, I rediscovered Orb, when I was trying to think of how to watch my collection of Frasier Season 2 divx downloads on my livingroom tv. Yeah, my nights ARE that exciting. Sidebar: uTorrent ROCKS!!!!!!!! The short of it is, I reinstalled Orb on my main pc, let it catalog all of my media, then used my Wii's Opera browser to stream it. Streaming media up the net to just pull it back down again 40ft away is kinda 'tarded, I know, but still, it's a cool thing to be able to do. I had it up and running in just under 10 mins, and was watching "Daphne's Room" and laughing like a stick figure on crack.
Oh, and to the PS3 fanboys that want to tell me how great the PS3 is because of it's ability to stream built-in, and how much the Wii sucks, and they are so great and almighty, listen to my friend Chris...oh, and watch him below too. You bastages.
If you're asking why I embedded the video above, well, because it's my blog, and I can.
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Just wondering, did you get or plan to get Smash Brothers Brawl? If so, email or post your Friend Code. If not, you should. The NC scene for this series is amazing
On topic: Owning a Wii, the Opera browser has quite a few things going for it. It isn't as convenient as a keyboard/mouse setup, but it's better than say, the PSP. Oh, and PS3 < Wii. PS3 doesnt have a lot and costs $RhodeIsland. Orb sounds interesting, but I have even less content than you.
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