Topic: Opera Included in Wii

[sycomonkey]

It was also be very easy to make a Web-based Media-Center, effectively making the Wii into a media center... assuming one knows enough javascript and perl (or AJAX or something).  Heck, something like this may allready exist.

[sycomonkey]

Also assuming that the Wii would support a particular video format (the server could dynamically re-encode it into whatever the Wii recognizes.

[KDR_11k]

I thought the 512MB are called flash ROM? Guess the other interpretation is that the 512MB are all user data and Opera is included with the firmware.

[AnyoneEB]

KDR is correct. Flash ROM (Read-Only Memory) a.k.a. EEPROM is rewriteable. It made sense to someone. (I think the tech used in Flash memory is similar to ROM chips.)

[Kairon]

But why use the term ROM? That usually refers to EEPROM technology, much like our 100-saves-before-they're-kaput SuperNES technology.

Flash memory, which is what the 512 MB has been called, is more like our Memory cards and USB Key drives. This is similar to EEPROM, but is better for rewriting purposes (it doesn't go kaput).

I'd like to think that he uses the term ROM because he really means a sort of memory in the hardware not intended for frequent rewriting, not because he doesn't know what the technical term means.

~Carmine M. Red
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