So, I just had my second tech+movie related issue in the last week. The Nintendo Wii can’t play DVDs?!?
I know, I know. I probably should have known this — somehow. But you just figure, it is 2007 2008 and it uses disks that at least resemble DVDs. I also know that the Wii doesn’t cost anywhere close to the XBox 360 or Playstation 3; so I am sure that it doesn’t use Blu-Ray or HD DVD disks. Is it a proprietary disk format or did they just not worry about movies? I’m guessing it has to be the later.
Oh well… I just wish I had checked before I took down the old XBox. I was really looking forward to seeing Blade Runner for the first time too. I have no idea how I have haven’t seen what is, by all accounts, one of the classic sci-fi movies of all time.
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1 Manny // Jan 31, 2008 at 2:24 pm
The Wii’s hardware is capable of reading DVDs (and the 750mhz CPU is more than adequate), it just doesn’t have the decoder. There has been rumors floating around that Nintendo may released a software update that would provide that functionality through software (which is completely possible).
So don’t get your hopes up just yet!
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