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Title: Wii Channels....
Post by: Donutt007 on September 16, 2006, 06:12:02 PM: What are the two channels that say "coming soon" on wii.com???????

More surprises from Nintendo? Or did I miss something?
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: MegaByte on September 16, 2006, 06:17:46 PM: Internet and Shopping.
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: SixthAngel on September 16, 2006, 09:24:53 PM: Does anyone else realized that the picture channel will let you watch videos. If you have any video on the SD card it seems to be able to play it. Since I watch anime this could be very handy for downloaded videos.
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Post by: IceCold on September 16, 2006, 09:33:02 PM: Is that confirmed? I was wondering if you would be able to do that - it would be awesome if true..
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Post by: SixthAngel on September 16, 2006, 09:37:01 PM: In one video of the Wii channels I saw the guy played a video and while he was watching it made it turn into a puzzle. I don't see anything to stop this so far.
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 16, 2006, 09:37:27 PM: Edit: Doh, beaten
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Post by: blackfootsteps on September 16, 2006, 09:37:29 PM: and that's something that even Xbox 360 can't do.
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Post by: IceCold on September 16, 2006, 09:42:21 PM: I wonder what formats it will support? And, if this is true, can you plug in an external hard drive or a flash drive and play movies from it?
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Post by: Kairon on September 16, 2006, 09:43:44 PM: Also the picture channels doodle lets you edit photos, and even grab other photos and stick them onto a layer above a photo and then editing them like that... doesn't Adobe have layers like...patented or something?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
Title: RE:Wii Channels....
Post by: SixthAngel on September 16, 2006, 09:51:54 PM: Photo Channel (the movie part is at the end)

This viewing of photos and videos is amazingly fast. The last time I hooked my camera to a tv to show some photos it was a frustrating experience to say the least.
Title: RE:Wii Channels....
Post by: Bill Aurion on September 16, 2006, 09:55:46 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: IceCold
I wonder what formats it will support? And, if this is true, can you plug in an external hard drive or a flash drive and play movies from it?

You cannot use the USB for storage...All storage is done through the SD card port...
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: Kairon on September 16, 2006, 09:58:56 PM: Not even flash drive support.

This must be about file formats, and SD cards must have a standardized way of storing photos in 'em that makes it simpler to implement and faster to access.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on September 16, 2006, 10:11:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
Not even flash drive support.

This must be about file formats, and SD cards must have a standardized way of storing photos in 'em that makes it simpler to implement and faster to access.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

I seem to have read that it may be possible to have stuff like flash/Hd support down the line, but right now it is SD only. BTW I may be wrong but I don't believe Xbox 360 has any kind of browser to surf the net (at least I haven't been able to find one for mine), that is another thing Wii has that 360 doesn't.
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: Kairon on September 16, 2006, 10:13:15 PM: Thing about this is... is Nintendo competing against Apple?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
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Post by: BigJim on September 17, 2006, 01:51:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
Thing about this is... is Nintendo competing against Apple?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Well, the latest iPods (with iTunes 7) now have downloadable games for $5 a pop. A number are from EA/Pogo. I wouldn't say they're competing with Nintendo in portable gaming. It's just extended functionality, like cell phone games. I think the reverse is true here.
Title: RE:Wii Channels....
Post by: Nephilim on September 17, 2006, 02:09:20 AM: they commented that videos taken with your camera, kodak use quicktimes (.mov), while ther brands use .avi and other formats
so nintendo will have to support atleast those two main formats

I doubt the HD will have a klite style codec pack which allows u to watch 99% of videos, but im sute it will support the commercial codec's used by camera's

im sure someone will make a psp style program which will allow u to change videos to these formats
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Post by: MegaByte on September 17, 2006, 06:54:24 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon

This must be about file formats, and SD cards must have a standardized way of storing photos in 'em that makes it simpler to implement and faster to access.

No, it shouldn't matter since they both can use the same format (FAT and FAT32). NTFS-formatted drives could be a problem, but that really shouldn't stop the other types from working.
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Post by: Athrun Zala on September 17, 2006, 09:58:01 AM: Quote
Originally posted by: Kairon
Also the picture channels doodle lets you edit photos, and even grab other photos and stick them onto a layer above a photo and then editing them like that... doesn't Adobe have layers like...patented or something?

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com
actually, many image editing programs support layers, even GIMP does
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Post by: IceCold on September 17, 2006, 01:47:07 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: SixthAngel
Photo Channel (the movie part is at the end)

This viewing of photos and videos is amazingly fast. The last time I hooked my camera to a tv to show some photos it was a frustrating experience to say the least.
Wow, that video is too cool; check out 0:40 - where it shows all the photos piling up. The interface is amazingly smooth, the control is accurate, and there's just so many features.
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: AnyoneEB on September 17, 2006, 04:26:40 PM: DeadlyD: .mov and .avi are file formats for holding video/audio data, not video formats. The question is really which codecs it supports because any codec could be in .mov or .avi. If it supports mpeg4 (dvix/xvid/etc.) and H.264 (newer codec which iTunes7 uses for videos), then it would be great for watching downloaded TV shows/movies. (Not that I would care much because I will be hooking up my Wii to my computer monitor.) I guess it would be easier than a laptop for bringing movies over to someone's house.

On the USB mass storage (flash/HDD) support... not really sure why they would leave that out. I guess with reading SD cards from cameras you can assume the format is FAT16 or FAT32 and that all the files are in the same folder. The second part was probably more important because it would require adding a folder browsing interface. Most flash drives are already FAT16, although hard drives are probably mostly NTFS or HFS+... and have multiple partitions with Windows and Mac partition table formats.
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Post by: Ceric on September 17, 2006, 07:43:28 PM: Lets not through all the *nix formats for drives. I really doubt we'll be seeing H.264 because it would need to be licensed. Though I could see mpeg4 because, if memory serves, it does not. (Remember this is for business not personal use.)
Ironically though if Apple made iTunes for Wii there pretty much be no need for the iTV.
(I also would like to see WMV supported. I like the format. *ducks*)
Title: RE:Wii Channels....
Post by: Kairon on September 17, 2006, 07:55:16 PM: But the iTV needs maaad Hard Drive storage space.... aside from that teensy weensy detail they're more or less compatible concepts...

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

edit: *ahem*
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Post by: Ceric on September 17, 2006, 08:16:35 PM: HD? What HD? The highest you can get from iTunes is 640x480. It can't record TV so as I said before what HD? Thats one of the reasons I couldn't justify buying movies from iTunes. If I want a DVD with no special features I have cheaper options to get one. I was hoping they release HD quality versions of the movies for sale. bah...
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Post by: ThePerm on September 17, 2006, 08:24:10 PM: that video is freaking badass
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Post by: Ceric on November 13, 2006, 05:05:16 PM: IGN has a new interface video up. It's in their Wii section. Though I wonder if I'm the only one that notice their is a 8 second delay of blackness between clicking to start a channel and starting the channel.
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Post by: j_moose on November 13, 2006, 05:12:53 PM: I did notice the load time for the channels...I thought it was kind of a long wait for something like that, but I'm not going to complain about it - game load times are more important. I also liked the Mario Paint effects in the photo channel (haven't played that game in ages...hopefully we'll see it on VC)...it was a nice touch that made me think about the days of videogames past.
Title: RE: Wii Channels....
Post by: Ceric on November 13, 2006, 05:18:26 PM: It's only 8 seconds so I was sort of hoping for a transition or something. Not just black.