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Remember the Bill O'Reilly article we posted some weeks ago? The one where he called gamers "junkies " and game consoles, particularly the PS3, as a "big, big problem" because "people get addicted to it, just like opium, just like drugs and alcohol."

Shortly after that, the "culture warrior" appeared on Oprah to air his views on the war that's tearing up America. The "culture war " is between "Traditionalists" like him who believe that "America is a noble country." On the other corner are the "Secular-Progressives" who he says think America is a "deeply flawed society that needs changes in every area."

And yes, we read it. Twice. And no, he didn't say anything about video games.

Anyway, this is not about the O' ranting on the O. This is about this video on YouTube featuring a little girl sassing back at O'Reilly's stand on video games and rap music. After watching this video we thought Cher donated her brain and this kid was the (good or bad) recipient. It turned out the girl was an actress and the whole thing was an ad for a band called The Bastard Fairies.

But that's not the end of it. Go check the rest of the story out (and a couple more videos as well) by clicking "Full Article"!

TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta), which features on the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 360, is now available. The TVersity Media Server allows the management of Internet and home media. It can also be used to create Personal Entertainment Guide (PEG) - personalized lineup of channels. It then serves this media to networked devices in the home as well as mobiles, making the media available anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Some of the features contained in the latest update are:

• On the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 360
• Xbox 360 users can now play their entire media library with no need for MCE.
• Users of other devices that can play WMV can use this target format as an alternative to MPEG. While this will require faster machines to achieve the same quality, it allow for a higher quality per bitrate meaning that a slower home network can be used. This is important mainly for HD content streamed over wireless connections.
• Upconversion of videos to WMV HD can be done (on a fast machine) by tweaking the minVideoInfo in config.xml.

• Bug Fixes
• Bad Internet URLs no longer cause the server to hang for a long period of time (during which no other media could be played).
• UPnP connections from different networks or different subnets are now accepted when the server is configured to accept remote connections. This is as opposed to the past behavior where this configuration only affected the web based interface.
• The XML results returned by the server are now guaranteed to place the item/container title first as required by the UPnP standard.
• Some issues related to playing flash video files (FLV) that were downloaded by the server automatically were fixed.
• Temporary files that were mistakenly placed in the wrong folder are now stored in the Windows temporary folder.

To run TVersity Media Server you need the following minimum system requirements:

• Pentium III 700 Mhz or better (Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz with support for Hyper Threading is recommended)
• 128 MB of memory or more (512 MB recommended)
• 50 MB of disk space (At least 1 GB of free space is recommended for cache area of transcoded media)
• Windows XP or Windows 2000
• DirectX 9.0 or higher
• Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher
• Audio enabled on the computer running the software
• Flash version 7 for the GUI (MSIE version 6.0 required for full GUI functionality, other Flash enabled browsers such as Firefox will have most but not all of the functionality.)

If you want to try this free app, click the link below and you'll be directed to the TVersity site where you can get more details about TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta).

Download: [TVersity Media Server v0.9.9 (beta)]

We're sure the question might have bugged you many times. The folks over at Joystiq want an answer to this question too. While I would say that it is a pretty valid question, I have my own opinions as to why it probably won't happen for a long time, and why Microsoft won't implement it.

Firstly, there's the fact that Microsoft has almost the whole desktop software market to themselves. In any case, neither Sony or Nintendo are planning to invade that space. That simple fact has made sure that over 75% of the world is browsing the internet on Internet Explorer, Microsoft's own browser. Although browsers like Firefox and Opera among others have made inroads into that space, it's still a meager 15%-20%. You have to realize corporate brains - Why would Microsoft spend money and time to make another browser when they already have over half of the world surfing on Internet Explorer?

Besides, the Xbox 360 isn't portable which means that you're probably in your home when you're on the 360. I think you can probably move a few inches away from your console and check your email on your PC, which by the way, is most probably running Windows and maybe even Internet Explorer.

The main reason why Sony and Nintendo are doing this would be because they want to pull the crowd away from Microsoft. Talking about Nintendo and the Wii, I just remembered that it's only going to do 480p. Now seriously, people have been complaining about how it's too difficult to play Dead Rising on their SDTVs because of the small text. Would that argument not apply here? And you have to remember that most of the sites these days recommend a resolution of at least 800x600. I can guarantee you that it won't be a fun experience browsing the internet on your Wii running Opera at a low resolution.

When talking about Sony, well, they've already had a browser on the PSP so they do have some experience with it. Secondly, since they're directly competing with Microsoft and saying that the PS3 will replace the desktop, it would've been absurd not to bundle in a web browser. While they might probably keep the people hooked onto the PS3 because of one more added feature, I don't see anyone buying the PS3 because it has a web browser, or rather, I don't see anyone not buying the Xbox 360 because it doesn't have one. Besides, if it gets too hot for Microsoft, I'm sure they can get a derivative of Internet Explorer on the Xbox 360. What do you think? Should Microsoft implement a browser? Let us know your thoughts through the comments.