Have your music, movies & pics in your living room

'Digital lifestyle without limits!' promises X-OOM. And in November 2007, too! It's a big boy step forward for the Wii today as X-OOM announces further information on their exciting and liberating Media Centre, which promises to turn your Wii at home into a device that can play all your movies and music and look at all your digital pictures - all through the wonder of wi-fi, wireless technology. If you've got it stored on your computer at home, then the Wii can talk to it and access it. Interested? Well, one Xbox 360 owner described the 360's ability to deal with home entertainment files, and it's handling of WMV as 'a lame duck' in spreading your entertainment around the home.

Could the Wii have trumped even the box, which right now can do no wrong, brandishing the Halo 3 crown? X-OOM say this software will turn your Wii into your own multimedia centre allowing you to watch movies, listen to music and view digital photos by streaming files directly from your PC onto the Wii using Wi-Fi. Rather than watching your favourite movie clips & downloads on PC, we'll be able to use X-OOM Media Centre to direct all files straight into the living room and watch in comfort on the TV, using the Wii.

The Media Centre is an easy way to view the hundreds of multimedia files stored on your PC, meaning you can access and play your favourite music simply and easily through your TV, claims X-OOM. Showcase your latest photographs live on TV in your lounge. Use the Wii's wireless remote to browse and select your favourite files on PC to show friends & family at Christmas or family gatherings. Slides, begone? There's no need to rely on cumbersome memory cards, CDs or cables in order to transfer data from one system to another, they promise.

The software allows you to transfer all of your media files at the click of a button, giving you the option to store movies, music and photographs on your PC but access them in your living room. Getting the message yet? Store in the bigger box - watch on the cute, little white one. The software will be for sale on X-OOM.com and Amazon.co.uk, for around £29.99. We like it so far! X-OOM Media Centre also promises to provide access to 1000s of Web TV channels and radio stations, which will appeal to the MTV generation and to Mums, we think.

Tech heads who want to know what you'll be getting - Network connection is through WLAN or LAN supporting MP3, WMA, OGG, DivX, XviD, MPEG 2, MPEG 4, WMV, JPG & BMP. Keep watching this space and we'll let you know how the software works, as soon as we've tested it.