Hulu On The Wii With PlayOn.TV Rocks

I have been sitting on this for a few days, as I wanted to make sure that I had a chance to really run PlayOn.TV through its paces. After finally completing my tests, I can conclude the following.

1. Follow the recommendations of the tool provided to tell you if your Windows box has enough RAM/CPU power. I have an older P4 box with something like 512MB of older (expensive now due to age) RAM. It works, but performance is going to be a lot better if you strip down the Windows services.
2. Setting up PlayOn.TV for the Wii is really simple. Just follow the video below and be amazed.
3. The CBS plugin may or may not work. And adding other plugins for the Wii might also fail… as I found out when trying NBC. Adding the Spike plugin, however, worked pretty well.
4. Some content looks like crap. Seriously, while some shows look great over Hulu over PlayOn.TV, other programs on the same path looks terrible. Muddy, even. This is due to the scaling going on, I am sure, which is forgivable as the best programs look at least about standard definition quality.

Am I totally sold on using my Wii to watch Internet content from the major networks? Not too likely, as my Ubuntu notebook does the same thing AND Hulu set to hi-def from in the browser looks awesome. The only advantage I found with PlayOn.TV was that the audio was much crisper and easier to manage than trying to dance through audio levels over a notebook with a separate cable.

I think PlayOn.TV is very cool and worth looking into. Just not sure it is worth the hassle for my family just yet.

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