Oh XBox 360, how do I love the! Let me count thy ways … but watching downloaded movies is not one of them.

With the recent fall update for the XBox 360, Microsoft has opened you its Media Client to allow it to connect to third-party UPnP Media Servers. Which is awesome, except for the fact that the XBox 360 only supports WMV (and MPEG) encoded movies. I mean seriously, no “person” voluntarily uses your media formats Microsoft. And with the 360’s horsepower, there shouldn’t be a problem here to decode these things in software. What’s a gamer to do?

Thankfully a group, with a little piece of software called TVersity, recently added transcoding capabilities and support for the XBox 360 Media Client to allow for transcoded videos to be streamed to the XBox 360 on demand. As the little man rejoices and struggles to get it all to work, I write a guide on what I needed to do to unlock this desirable capability.
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Poplars is a turn-based strategy game that is traditionally played on a 6×5 board with two opponents. (You can, however, play on any sized board with up to four players optionally) It is a game for all ages that requires recursive thinking and good foresight. Poplars is a game of position and territory that requires pure skill (as are other games such as go, chess, and tic-tac-toe). The object of the game is to completely own every square that contains a Poplar without letting the opponent do the same.
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