I've been having a blast with my XBox 360. As you may recall, I bought one a few weeks ago and have been having a great time with it. I've mostly used it to play games - from Need for Speed Most Wanted, to Tiger Woods 06. And I have been enjoying the XBox Live Arcade a lot too - purchased a couple of games from there.

A little while ago I installed Windows Media Center on one of my PC's - mostly because the XP Pro key I have didn't work. I have stacks of official Microsoft XP Pro CD's and no working keys. But Media Center PC has been just as good - even better. Media Center is XP with a PLUS.

Media Center kind-of integrates with the 360. Well, actually, it is supposed to be full integration. My XBox 360 is a media center pc for my living room television. But MCE only runs Windows Media WMV file fornats. Since all of my videos are more compressed than that (DivX mostly), I haven't been able to play streaming videos on my XBox.

Until today.

Today is the day I found VLC360. VLC360 is an ingenious little app that converts DivX and other movie types to Windows Media format ON THE FLY. So, as far as my XBox is concerned, I am playing WMV files. But the files are stored on my computer in DivX or xvid. It's amazing really. The person who came up with this idea and was able to implement it so nicely is a genious, no doubt about it.

If you have an XBox 360, and you have a Media Center PC, get this app. I have a REAL media center now. Wow!