Star Fox Runner Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 I was messing around on Nintendo's Website, and I saw this! Looks like you will be able to use Netflix on the Wii now!http://www.nintendo.com/wii/netflixLooks like the Wii is catching up on the movie service front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 I was messing around on Nintendo's Website, and I saw this! Looks like you will be able to use Netflix on the Wii now!http://www.nintendo.com/wii/netflixLooks like the Wii is catching up on the movie service front.You can watch movies on the wii? :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Fox Runner Posted February 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 You can watch movies on the wii? The service isn't ready yet, but it's possible now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sniper Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 that'll be sweet. I soft modded my wii with homebrew one time, but could never get the dvds to run :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox1235 Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Looks nice but what's this disc it says at the bottom u need to get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Too bad most movies nowadays are crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Too bad most movies nowadays are crap.Haha, yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Haha, yeahAll I need is a copy of Robin Hood. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 How about I just install homebrew and watch my own movies eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Krystal Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 How about I just install homebrew and watch my own movies eh?If you're gonna go to that much trouble, why not watch your movies on your computer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 If you're gonna go to that much trouble, why not watch your movies on your computer?Wii is a computer :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 Wii is a computer All 729MHz 88MB ram and 3 MB Vid Ram, which surprisingly , is actaully pretty good for a console. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 If you're gonna go to that much trouble, why not watch your movies on your computer?Larger screen, already have a perfectly good DVD player anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 All 729MHz 88MB ram and 3 MB Vid Ram, which surprisingly , is actaully pretty good for a console.The hardware is different from hardware in PCs right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 I've seen this one churning in the rumor mill for a whole now. Nice to see it official.Netflix actually has a damn-good collection. Even though a lot of today's movies are crap, you can get a lot of older ones. I recently watched the ENTIRE James Bond series from Dr. No to Casino Royale. (Sean Connery is STILL the best Bond, BTW) Doing that without Netflix would have cost serious money. I want to say the box set with all of them costs in the neighborhood of $250 (I've got better things to spend $250 on), and good luck finding ALL of them at Blockbuster.Note that some greedy studios don't allow their movies on the service.As someone who's been using an ad-hoc HDMI connection to my TV from my PC to watch Netflix movies, this is a welcome change. I've preordred a disc (it's free if you have an unlimited Netflix account).I imagine it works like any other Netflix streaming device, IE, put stuff in your instant queue to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 The hardware is different from hardware in PCs right?Actually, the graphics is powered by ATI and the processor is for PowerPCs. So it's kinda PC hardware... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DZComposer Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 All PowerPC means is the architecture. An AMD Opteron is an x86 processor, just as a Phenom CPU is, but an Opteron is a different CPU, and is considered server hardware. This isn't a great comparison, as you can run a desktop OS on a machine with one, but you get the idea that an Opteron and Phenom are not the same thing (that would be Core and Xeon respectively for you Intel people).Just because two CPUs share the same architecture doesn't make them suitable for eachother's purposes. An Opteron would be overkill for much of what is done on a PC, while a Phenom would struggle under the heavy load of a large database processing server.The Broadway CPU was designed specifically for the Wii. Putting one into a general-purpose PC will likely not yield the same performance as a similarly-designed general purpose PowerPC chip.The AMD Hollywood GPU is also designed specifically for the Wii. It is designed to work with the Broadway CPU, and would not replace a Radeon chip that AMD makes for PCs.It isn't "kind of PC" hardware, it's purpose-designed embedded system hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FoXXX Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 All PowerPC means is the architecture. An AMD Opteron is an x86 processor, just as a Phenom CPU is, but an Opteron is a much different CPU, and is considered server hardware.Just because two CPUs share the same architecture doesn't make them suitable for eachother's purposes. The Broadway CPU was designed specifically for the Wii. Putting one into a general-purpose PC will likely not yield the same performance as a similarly-designed general purpose PowerPC chip.The AMD Hollywood GPU is also designed specifically for the Wii. It is designed to work with the Broadway CPU, and would not replace a Radeon chip that AMD makes for PCs.It isn't "kind of PC" hardware, it's purpose-designed embedded system hardware.That's what I was thinking because 793mhz CPU? lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox-Shot Posted February 5, 2010 Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 All PowerPC means is the architecture. An AMD Opteron is an x86 processor, just as a Phenom CPU is, but an Opteron is a different CPU, and is considered server hardware. This isn't a great comparison, as you can run a desktop OS on a machine with one, but you get the idea that an Opteron and Phenom are not the same thing (that would be Core and Xeon respectively for you Intel people).Just because two CPUs share the same architecture doesn't make them suitable for eachother's purposes. An Opteron would be overkill for much of what is done on a PC, while a Phenom would struggle under the heavy load of a large database processing server.The Broadway CPU was designed specifically for the Wii. Putting one into a general-purpose PC will likely not yield the same performance as a similarly-designed general purpose PowerPC chip.The AMD Hollywood GPU is also designed specifically for the Wii. It is designed to work with the Broadway CPU, and would not replace a Radeon chip that AMD makes for PCs.It isn't "kind of PC" hardware, it's purpose-designed embedded system hardware.I understand that, I just meant as in that it was made by people who also make famous PC hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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