Topic: Survey Teases Netflix Instant Streaming Disc for Wii

[DrStiles]

Maybe it's finally time to switch from Blockbuster.  BB is good but streaming to my Wii is quite a selling point.

[BranDonk Kong]

You can't even begin to compare this to XBMC (sorry). XBMC is leaps and bounds above any type of "Media Center" that the Wii will ever have. You can use up to a 750GB HDD with XBMC (maybe even higher, but huge IDE HDDs are rare), play just about any video format, even *some* 720p content, and everything can be upscaled to 1080i. Watching a DVD with XBMC at 1080i looks better than any upscaling DVD player I've ever seen in action, though I hear the HD-A3 HD-DVD player does a great job. Still this would be pretty awesome, however the instant streaming selection on netflix is pretty small.

[Morari]

I have this thing called an HDMI cable. It runs from my computer to my television in the other room. I can stream my NetFlix picks to the television anytime I want. Of course it's usually quicker, easier, and better looking to just pirate the stuff instead. Ultimately the streaming aspect is just a nice extra that comes with the real NetFlix experience: quickly copying films and mailing them back the very day they arrive!

Traffic shaping, bandwidth throttling and charging the earth for excess fees kills this idea dead (even though i'm not affected).

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2009/03/16/another-vodafone-user-hit-by-22k-mobile-broadband-bill.html LOLz

That said i would be interested in seeing this here. If iPlayer can do it via the internet channel why not?

That's what Net Neutrality is for! Don't buy into the propaganda that the telecoms and the cable companies spew. We really do need an internet free of restrictions and corporate interests. Luckily, Obama does seem to be working toward that goal in a lot of his plans. Some of the folks he put in the FCC show that if nothing else.

That's nice to hear about the Net Neutrality. I personally think it's a pretty important thing.

How long is your HDMI cable that you run from your computer? I've thought about doing that once I get an HDTV but my computer is in another room from the TV.

My primary television is a few rooms away as well. My living room and office are distinctively separate on purpose. The cable itself is twenty-five feet, but it is going straight through the walls via a few drilled holes. The only real wasted length is in a few bends at the computer and the television that I put in just to keep things nice and neat looking.

[BlackNMild2k1]

PS3 gets Netflix streaming this month, rumor has it that Wii might be getting it next month
http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/28/netflix-streaming-purportedly-hitting-nintendos-wii-next/

With the speed and quality of the videos on the Nintendo Channel, I have high hopes for this. I actually wonder if the Netflix testing is what actually led to the increased speed and quality of the Nintendo Channel videos.

My only question with this is that if someone is using my Wii to watch streaming movies, will that block me from also using my computer at the same time in a different room to watch something else that is also streaming?

[stevey]

I actually wonder if the Netflix testing is what actually led to the increased speed and quality of the Nintendo Channel videos.

There's better network support in all the new IOS(60+). They didn't have anything to do with that because it was upgraded before this ever came out. More likely this is what pushed Netflix to consider it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

When did the new IOS' some out? because Netflix on Wii was rumored a long time ago, even before it came to 360 think. I'm just sure that MS was willing to pay for exclusivity which prevented any of this coming any sooner.

Netflix approaching Nintendo way back when could have been what got Nintendo to run test to see if it was possible, and that is what could have led to the video streaming quality upgrade.