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PlayOn Launches Wii BetaThis was Posted by tracy on Sun, 08/23/2009 - 23:48.
We are excited to announce that PlayOn officially supports the Nintendo Wii -- in Beta. That means the almost 25 million Wii owners can watch Hulu, Netflix, CBS, CNN, ESPN, Amazon VOD, YouTube, AdultSwim, Crackle and much more on their TV, from their couch, using their Wii Remote. Here is what it looks like:
This is the first device where we have control over the User Interface, and we have tried to make it as intuitive, user friendly and pretty as possible. You be the judge. PlayOn for the Wii is available for a free, full-featured 14-day trial, and after that licenses are available for a one-time fee of $39.99. That same license (and the same software download) will support your PS3, Xbox 360 and other DLNA devices. How it works: PlayOn uses the "Internet Channel" on the Wii - so if you don't have this, you will need to get it. After downloading and installing PlayOn on your PC, you then open the "Internet Channel" web browser on your Wii, press the "WWW" button and enter playon.tv as the web address. You should add this page to your Wii Browser "Favorites" to make it easy to access in the future. That's it! You can click on Hulu and find your favorite shows, or Netflix and watch that movie you have talking about seeing - right from your couch and Wiimote. Wii support has been one of the most requested features from our users, and we are thrilled to offer this Beta release to folks who would like to give it a whirl. PlayOn supports the broadest selection of Internet-to-TV premium content, including Hulu, Nerflix, XBS, ESPN, CNN, Amazon VOD, and YouTube. And the selection of niche content is growing daily via the open PlayOn Plugin architecture, which currently includes:
PlayOn works on a broad range of devices including PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, Moxi HD DVR, VuNow, and many other DLNA-compliant devices. We hope you enjoy the Wii Beta and encourage you to send us feedback at support@playon.tv.
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 PlayOn enables you to watch Hulu, Netflix, CBS.com, ESPN, CNN, and YouTube on your TV via your PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Wii, or HP MediaSmart TV. This blog will help you keep up to date with what is going on with PlayOn. 
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Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
How do I get my wii to connect to my PC?
Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
Wii now has similar media player capabilities to the XBox 360 and PS3! This works great and you should trumpet this from the rooftops.
The only thing you might want to do is include a note on the Wii webpage for slower folk like me: "The Wii does not connect directly to the video source. You must have the PlayOn server installed and running on a PC on your network to provide a server for your device." :)
Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
I set this up last night for our Wii. The first hurdle was connecting it to our network, which meant I had to add the Wii's MAC address to the wireless router's Allow list. Then I just had to surf to playon.tv, et voila! We were soon connecting to Hulu and watching a CURRENT "Heroes" episode!
Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
Not to be a wet towel but I have so many issues with PlayOn working consistently that perhaps some time spent away from new features and on bug fixing would be good idea. I know bug fixing doesn't get in the new customers, but it does keep the current ones happy.
(Ever sense you recommended restarting the server every night to "fix" the memory leaks, I've had a bad opinion of the QA department at MediaMall. Things might have changed though.)
Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
Ummm, how do I turn off the widescreen format of your layout. I am using my Wii on a SD TV.
Re: PlayOn Launches Wii Beta
I gave it a try, and I have to say I'm pretty impressed. Not to say it works flawlessly - ran into a few glitches here and there, but its definitely watchable. I tried TVersity on the Wii and it didn't work worth a darn (skips, etc). This is great!