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Netflix Streaming Arrives For the Wii
Grant,thompson writes "As announced in January and mentioned here on Slashdot, Netflix is sending out discs today to enable streaming on the Nintendo Wii. 'Netflix has sent out emails to customers who pre-ordered the Wii's instant streaming disc, indicating that the disc will arrive in mailboxes tomorrow, and that the service will likely start within the next day.'"
i can finally sleep at night.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I gather that you need to load the netflix disc every time you want to stream stream something?
On my 360 (and I assume on PS3s as well), netflix streaming is built into the software of the device: I can play a game off of a disc until my wife gets home, then switch over to netflix and watch some tv with a few button clicks.
If you have to get up and fumble with discs every time you want to switch tasks, this is a big Fail for the Wii in terms of convenience. Why not a WiiWare application?
I'm beginning to think that everything will one day stream Netflix. It would be nice if Netflix would concentrate less on getting their service on my refrigerator and more on expanding their selection of movies and shows available for streaming. It doesn't seem to have improved all that much since the service started.
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Now my kids can watch their Cartoons downstairs while I stream HD on my XBox upstairs. Sounds like a win for me.
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Not everyone has an HD tv... I don't, but I do have a Wii. As a result, I'm excited about streaming on the Wii.
No HD capability in my house anyway, so streaming "old fashoned resolution" stuff to my old fashioned tube tv (won't be replaced until it dies...) is fine with me...
Of course, I've not put our Wii on hte 'net yet - don't need to, got kids to worry about with it... and my DSL service tends to die while waiting for PADO packets...
I'm constantly impressed by the bandwidth a rural mail carrier's truck full of netflix dvds provide anyway :)
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So I don't have to wait for the DVD to come in the mail, huh? That's awfully con-Wii-nient!
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Yeah, because DVD-quality is so crap.
I mean come on, I play Faroudja upscaled DVD (PAL 576i) on my 40" 1080p HDTV and from my sofa 15 feet away it looks great. Blu-ray only looks a bit sharper thanks to the distance. Just because it's not HD doesn't mean it's useless.
Yes, if you click here: http://www.netflix.com/InstantStreamingDisc?device=Wii After you are logged into your netflix account you can click on "send me the disk". I just did and it said I should have my disk tomorrow.
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Philistine. I bet you aren't even using $100 Monster-brand premium gold-plated HDMI connectors for optimal signal quality and maximum color-accuracy and sharpness!
But without any hope of HD, whats the point?
Last I heard Netflix streaming on PS3 and Xbox 360 are both in 480p - same resolution as the Wii.
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Now if only we could stream instantly to a Linux PC without having to resort to a VM running Windows...
DVD-quality is not crap, but frankly I do rather watch in HD quality. I have a 50" TV and better HDMI connectors (studio quality, cost like $100.. but for me it's worth it) from PS3 to it and it's clear how much better HD quality is.
Log onto your Netflix account and check this page..
http://www.netflix.com/InstantStreamingDisc?device=Wii
It should give your delivery status.
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I have a 50" TV and better HDMI connectors (studio quality, cost like $100..
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I did that as soon as I saw I had no email. It says the same thing it said back when I signed up.
"Thanks for reserving your FREE instant streaming disc for your Wii console.
You don't need to do anything else - your instant streaming disc for Wii will ship automatically when it is available this spring."
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Wrong, there is signal loss in digital. However, you are also right. Once you lose enough signal that you can no longer decode the digital data, your video becomes instantly unwatchable.
Therefore, if you needed a long enough HDMI cable, as the voltage drops enough from the transmitter to the receiver, you'd start seeing the difference between low quality and high quality cables in that the good cables would work and the others would cut out frequently or not work at all.
Not picking on you per se, but as long as we're going to educate people on why they shouldn't waste money on expensive snake oil, we should explain it correctly.
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I hear that square-wave signals look WAY better when they travel through way-overpriced copper rather than inexpensive copper. You can totally tell the difference!
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Hi, I work at a studio -- its name starts with an "S" and its parent used to make rice steamers before it moved into electronics and spider-related comic book movies. I have a $10 HDMI cable from Monoprice.
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I just requested one. Logged onto Netflix.com, went to "Instantly to your TV", click on "Wii - coming soon". They have a link to ask them for a free disk, and they said it would arrive tomorrow.
RTFA! All you have to do is build a Wii Emulator for Linux and then you can run it in that instead of a Windows VM. Sheesh.
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Once you lose enough signal that you can no longer decode the digital data, your video becomes instantly unwatchable.
While we're nitpicking, this isn't necessarily true. There is such a thing as Bit Error Rate and you can have some in a digital signal and still have a usable signal. It might not even be noticeable. If a 24 bit color is off by the least significant bit for one frame on one pixel would you see it? It's an oversimplified example really, but I hope you get my point. On the other hand, a little bit of nasty on an OC192 can drop every cell call in 100 miles.
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"(studio quality, cost like $100.. but for me it's worth it)" /.? /. needs to have a test before giving out user IDs.
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I Paid 2 dollars and 5 cents for my shielded 1.3b HDMI cables, and that included shipping. There is no difference between these and yours. I can go to Amazon and get 1.4 for 3 dollars.
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Good thing the Wii isn't in HD, huh?
Why stop there? I only use copper mined from a small mine in the amazon that has been blessed by a local shaman. You think your picture looks better on expensive copper? Mine comes from the freaking amazon. Like acai berries. Ever heard of them? Yeah.
My TV signal is freaking sweet.
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