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« on: January 03, 2007, 08:06:17 AM »
well, the first thing the Wii does is exactly what the gamecube does when you put a cd in....it spins at a low speed to read the special bar-code on the center ring of the disk to know that it's a disk for wii or not.
so you would have to get past that part to even think about reading other types of disk
and i'm sure the laser lens in the wii is a dvd laser, considering it would probley cost a lot more to design and manufacture a costom, pro-prietary laser lens. Thats basically what blu-ray is, and look how much that drove up the ps3
and last, just want to point out that the mp3 player in the photo channel is a software based mp3 player. Cause I have mp3's that will play on excite truck but not the photo channel
I think the Wii could play DVD movies if it wanted to, but for a device to play DVD movies you have to pay 20 dollars in royalties to whoever owns the patent on that technology.