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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.
