Wii DVD Playback

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Homebrewers enable DVD playback on the Wii.

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cool

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We may be able to have DVD but we will never get sony to let us play blu ray

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I have a DVD player to play my DVD's. Whats the point of playing DVD's on my Wii? IT MAKES NO SENCE!!!

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kool

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First it would be pointless for the current Wii to play BluRay disks with NO HD output. Allowing the Wii to function as a DVD player would be useful in ceratin situations, look at how many people used the DVD players in thier PS2s. For the most part we already ave a DVD player hooked up to the same TV that we have the Wii, but think of a setup in a kids room with a TV with limited inputs, rather than using a switch box or Y cables to hook both a Wii and a DVD player up to a TV they can consolidate into one unit.

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ive seen something like this before
i think if there is no point and click in the dvds actual menu then i wouldnt really like it and besides nintendo doesnt like hacking and if the wii was in a kids room (like scott said) they could update the wii and it would be bricked

plus the complecation of installing homebrew channel

i think if the wii is capable of reading dvds then nintendo should put a dvd channel out on the shop channel or in an update

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I'm about to try it (will post what it is like in about 1/2 an hour) but from what i've heard it lags a bit.

Edit: did'nt work for me :(

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I agree, it would be a nice free download from Nintendo. Even better if they released it like the internet channel, free for a few months.

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I dont see why everyone is so scared to use it, itf you don't want to install the HBC then do it via the Twilight Hack

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well im sacred cause i dont want to forget about it and update my wii and then have it bricked

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me too

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Finnaly they make a DvD playback feature on the Wii. What Next the internet TV channel. Then after that DvR.

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i think this i kind pointless (but still cool) it's kind like a video ipod it's nice and but still a little pointless

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Dude I love my iPod video I have Blazing Saddles, The Blues Brothers, School of Rock. I LOVE It so take it Back

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hey i love my video ipod too but ipods were ment for music it's a nice addition but not necessary

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I agree to,I dont know what they are waiting on maybe someday they will wake up.

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If you want to watch dvds get a dvd player. You can get them as low as $20. And if they did add dvd playback they would probably make it more expensive. And I wouldn't want that. Wii is made for playing games.

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What? We're talking about wii and dvd playback.

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samus the wii already has the capacity to play dvds so it would be free which obviously is very economic. It might be more convenient if nintendo would make a channel and also add cool features.


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Yeah Samus is right the wii is meant to play games not DVD's so just leave it at that.

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nintendo should enable a dvd channel and give it free but if they were gonna need to put in something (which they currently dont) they should make it bluray

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WTF?????? Wii would never be able to play blu-ray movies its hardware and stuff isn't good enough.

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i said if they were to upgrade the hardware

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Yeah this generation of video games will last a lifetime. The companies don't plan to make new consoles instead give upgrades to there current consoles. I'm sure the wii will receive some hardware upgrades soon.