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Originally Posted by Bay 6
Can the Wii game system be used as a Media player for movies on external hard drives or networked drives?
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Yes, the Wii can be used as a media player. It can play music, photos and videos. The instruction book will tell you what formats it will accept (example: mp3, ACC, jpg and avi). There's just two things you'd need to be aware of.
1) Content has to be stored on an SD memory card. Even though the Wii has USB ports, it does not have the ability to read content off external hard drives YET. Perhaps with a firmware update it will.
2) The Wii does not accept the high capacity SD memory cards. In other words, the Wii will only accept cards up to 2 GB.
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Originally Posted by Bay 6
I would like to use it as an extender for Media Center. Can this be done? I know the PS3 and XBOX 360 can do this.
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I've heard of a program called
Wii Transfer that will turn your Wii into a Media Center; however; the program is for the Mac. If you have a Mac, it's something to look into. TVersity is more well known than Wii Transfer so I'd look at TVersity first.