TVersity announces support for the Xbox 360!

[theNoid]

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NEW YORK, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TVersity Inc., the pioneer in delivering Internet and home media to televisions and mobile devices, today announced support for the Xbox 360.

"We are very excited to allow owners of the Xbox 360 to overcome some of the inherent limitations of this device", said Ronen Mizrahi, President of TVersity Inc., "With TVersity they can, for the first time, access audio files in formats not natively supported by the Xbox 360 (like Vorbis and FLAC), play Internet radio stations of their choice, and access podcasts and photo feeds (from photo sharing sites like Flickr) -- All this without requiring a Media Center PC!"

TVersity's media server is universal in the range of devices it can serve and in the types of media it can handle. By doing all the necessary conversions of media formats and streaming protocols on the fly, TVersity overcomes the inherent limitations of target devices thus allowing playback of any media on any device.

The Xbox 360 is the most recent addition to the long list of connected devices already supported by TVersity, which includes networked TVs, DVDs, STBs, media receivers, PDAs, mobiles phones, and other mobile devices (like the Nokia 770 Internet tablet and the Sony PSP). With TVersity the menus on the Xbox 360 are extended to include Internet content, making it possible to access radio stations, Podcasts and Photo feeds.

"Our goal is to empower users to personalize their entertainment experience and to extend this experience beyond the PC to TVs and to a wide range of connected devices and applications", said Mr. Mizrahi, "As users invest more time in organizing and personalizing their favorite content, they essentially become the new programmers and they expect to have access to their programming from any multimedia capable device -- This is what TVersity is all about, personalization of multimedia content and ubiquitous access."

TVersity is available now for free download at http://www.tversity.com
About TVersity Inc.

TVersity is empowering individuals to organize and personalize their home and Internet multimedia collection (audio, video and images) and is enabling universal access to it anywhere (at the home or on the go) anytime and from any device. TVersity is a privately held company in Tenafly, NJ. For more information about TVersity, please visit http://www.tversity.com.

 

[tys90]

Bah...got my hopes up for streaming video, but no luck. I shouldn't have expected in the first place actually, oh well. Looks like I'll end up installing the Vista beta to stream video for now...

 

[BaconGrease]

just set this up after reading about it at Penny-Arcade. Streams music to my PSP which is totally cool, as I can now offload some tunes from my memory card. Will be messing with the xbox connectivity later.

 

[sdk]

Bah...got my hopes up for streaming video, but no luck. I shouldn't have expected in the first place actually, oh well. Looks like I'll end up installing the Vista beta to stream video for now...

I don't know what you are talking about, but I have streaming video coming from my computer in all formats.

Depending on the file size it can take anywhere from 2 seconds to 15 seconds for me to start playing (specs in sig) but it works perfectly fine.

Max output that I have it set on is 640x480 which is okay because most of the shows I have are 512x384.

http://www.tversity.com/download.html and get the 0.9.9.1 which has been updated to work with the 360 without any patches. Any questions feel free to ask.