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Nintendo Wii To Get Netflix Streaming
motang writes "Netflix and Nintendo is set to announce Netflix streaming service for the Wii soon. Subscribers who have the unlimited streaming service can watch non-HD version of the movies on their Wii with a special Netflix disc inserted." The thing I can't understand is why the PS3 and Wii have to require a disc. Both are capable of downloading applications and executing them. Why should I be required to dedicate my disc slot to stream a movie? Of course, my netflix queue is half-filled with Ken Burns documentaries, so if I lost the disc, I think that would just make the wife happier.
Rumor has it that Microsoft has an exclusivity contract with netflix for streaming built into gaming consoles which expires sometime near the end of year.
The PS3 will go disc free later this year, but didn't supply details as to why. However, since the Wii has far less storage, this may or may not be possible on the Wii...
http://kotaku.com/5391286/netflix-on-ps3-getting-embedded-solution-late-next-year
Think about it -- why do we have BluRay, which has a maximum capacity of 50GB? They already have solid-state memory devices that only weigh a few grams and have that much storage capacity -- and they don't degrade, scratch, or fall apart after a few months.
They only cost $100 more per unit. Who needs cheap media anyways?
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
Every new multimedia technology Microsoft creates sucks until the second major revision (at least).
While I don't think that's an untrue statement in general, it applies to many technologies, both hardware and software. As for hardware, that goes for many things outside the computer industry (car models, washing machines, whatever have you) as real-world use reveals shortcomings the original design and testing didn't take into account.
For conscience is the wound, and there's naught to staunch it
Gee thanks. It's not like I haven't already researched the issue.
No need to be sarcastic or rude, I was just trying to help.
If you read that post, it's a bunch of nonsense gobbleygook and FUD that works out to, we don't want to do it.
I did read the post, and that is not at all what it sounds like. It sounds like they have to figure out a way to overlay a secondary stream on top of the video stream. Obviously, you seem think this is easy to accomplish, so why don't you contact them and tell them how to do it?
He says they would have to reencode the entire library with subtitles enabled in order to stream the captions. This is of course BS because the captions are not video data and do not need to be encoded.
That is the exact opposite> of what he says. He says that reencoding the entire library would be time and cost prohibitive, as well as angering a lot of non-hearing-impaired english speakers. As a result, they are working on laying a secondary stream that contains only the subtitles over the video stream. He also says that they looked around for existing tech to do this, and found nothing.
Did you even read it, or did you just skim over it because you are pissed off?
He says that they are developing special display technology that would display the text as a separate stream in silverlight. Again FUD, I have written programs that display text in silverlight. It's quite easy, as you would expect.
As I said, if you already have the answer, why not stop bitching and contact them with the solution so they can implement it faster?
The data for all of the captions for a movie is usually around 100 KB and is freely available for use on nearly every dvd.
See above comments about submitting your idea.
The bottom line is that they do not care to have their programmers waste even 10 minutes on the Deaf community
The bottom line is that unless they release something RIGHT NOW, you are going to be pissed off. Calm down, read and understand what is written, and stop with the knee-jerk reaction.
They are going to give you what you want, and likely at no additional cost to you. Either submit your grand idea to them or stop complaining.
Living With a Nerd
What he says, specifically, is:
1) We don't do it.
2) We can't do it the same way we do subtitles for foreign language films.
3) We're going to do it and we have chosen a subtitle format.
4) The subtitle format is not well supported by our various viewing devices/software.
5) It will be done soon anyway.
So maybe it could be done faster. So maybe they didn't even try to do it until recently. Oh, horror!
tl;dr No malice here, calm down and relax.
I want my Cowboyneal