Stream Music to your TV with Wii’s Opera browser


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So the other day I was playing with the Wii that I bought my kids (and me) for Christmas and I have to admit this thing is a far cooler than I expected.  One thing that intrigued me was the Opera browser that you can purchase from the Wii store for about $5.00 (500 wii points).  If the iPhone could inspire thousands of Safari based sites dedicated to that platform I wonder if Wii’s Opera browser could do the same thing?

Messing around one night after the Wii’s days work of playing Mario Party and Paper Mario I decided to put the browser through its paces.  As most of my readers know I am a huge fan of Pandora and I wanted to see if Pandora worked.  It doesn’t, you run out of memory.  I could have given up but I didn’t.  I tried LastFM and was surprised that it worked perfectly.  I believe LastFm doesn’t download a complete song down to buffer therefore working within Opera for Wii’s memory requirements. So now I can stream music through my Wii to my surround system without additional hardware.

Also worth noting is that MySpace, MySpace music, Gmail, and YouTube works as it should.  I will be doing some reoccurring articles on what works and what doesn’t as I see the Wii Opera browser as a really great way to bring content to the TV.  Stay Tuned.

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January 7, 2008 | Filed Under Nintendo, Nintendo Wii, Web 2.0 

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One Response to “Stream Music to your TV with Wii’s Opera browser”

  1. Sandra Bradley on MyAvatars 0.2 January 27th, 2008 3:46 am

    Thanks, this is great to know. I haven’t had time to play with my kids’ Wii yet, but have tried to keep an eye out for news of its capabilities. I can’t wait to try some of this stuff!

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