3.4 Update

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I guess there are also other aspects.. the Wii in its current form only has the advantage of allowing DVD navigation using Wii Remote. That would be indeed cool. But for me, I'd still play DVDs in my X360.. why that? Simple:

I am a friend of Surround audio which the Wii has no capabilities of (and no Dolby Pro Logic is no surround it's an upsampling solution).. so I wouldn't get my nice Dolby Digital 5.1 sound - which my X360 offers.

In the end to produce a DVD which is up to date with current market products they would have to add that feature. And then: PAL Wiis are identical in Europe and Australia.. yet EU and AU have different region codes.. even Easter Europe which also gets PAL Wiis has Region Code 3, Western has Region 2.. and Australia was 4 if I remember correctly. So the logistical difficulties were too hard I guess!

[Romaap]

I heard that the wii's lens doesn't like watching movies, because while playing a game the wii just uses the dvd drive once in a while but while watching movies it just needs to load the movie on and on.
I've seen some feedbacks of people who watched movies on their wii and they say its not worth it, because there is a change that the lens will die.

[Link]

I highly doubt it.. the Wii lens indeed had certain problems on old Wiis.. especially when it comes to readability of Dual Layer disc and DVD movies are practically 99.9% dual layer.. it's the same reason Nintendo needed to readjust multiple lenses for Smash Bros (they didn't just clean them).. if it really was that the Wii wouldn't like DVDs then chipped Wiis would die one after another.. which they simply do not!

Add: additionally, the Wii is constantly reading discs.. 99% of all games use streaming audio.. so they stream it from the disc and require a constant on-going read of data!

[Jassim]

still no reason to try and stop us from watching dvds when
A) its legal
B) its not piracy so they wont lose money
C) why should they care if we watch movies on our wii O_o

[agrs700]

still no reason to try and stop us from watching dvds when
A) its legal
B) its not piracy so they wont lose money
C) why should they care if we watch movies on our wii O_o

agree 100% with you

[DemonParasite]

It's not worth their time, is the problem. Once again, most people have a DVD player, and the quality of sound, as stated above, is better on the 360. There's no point in it, it's just an extra little feature that would probably not gain enough money from to be worth it. It would take too much time and money to build a feature that a lot of people would have no need for. Look at the Internet Channel. It only costs $5, but hardly anyone even uses it. It's because it's not worth 5 dollars for an inferior method of browsing.

[Jassim]

It's not worth their time, is the problem. Once again, most people have a DVD player, and the quality of sound, as stated above, is better on the 360. There's no point in it, it's just an extra little feature that would probably not gain enough money from to be worth it. It would take too much time and money to build a feature that a lot of people would have no need for. Look at the Internet Channel. It only costs $5, but hardly anyone even uses it. It's because it's not worth 5 dollars for an inferior method of browsing.

as i said before, we forgive them for not adding a dvd player, but why stop us from have dvd player?

[Austin]

It's not worth their time, is the problem. Once again, most people have a DVD player, and the quality of sound, as stated above, is better on the 360. There's no point in it, it's just an extra little feature that would probably not gain enough money from to be worth it. It would take too much time and money to build a feature that a lot of people would have no need for. Look at the Internet Channel. It only costs $5, but hardly anyone even uses it. It's because it's not worth 5 dollars for an inferior method of browsing.

im part of that small % that uses that channel.... see my computer is so stinkin lousy rotten slow it just drives me nuts! i have to wait 5 min before it loads a site, 30 min before it completly starts internet explorer and that is just annoying! with the wii it takes 30 sec. to load the channel. and 2-4 sec. to load a site. so its VERY useful to me

[REDSOXROX]

It's not worth their time, is the problem. Once again, most people have a DVD player, and the quality of sound, as stated above, is better on the 360. There's no point in it, it's just an extra little feature that would probably not gain enough money from to be worth it. It would take too much time and money to build a feature that a lot of people would have no need for. Look at the Internet Channel. It only costs $5, but hardly anyone even uses it. It's because it's not worth 5 dollars for an inferior method of browsing.

as i said before, we forgive them for not adding a dvd player, but why stop us from have dvd player?

Well, yeah, they didn't need to block DVDX...they are not working on it, and for the few people like Jassim that want to watch DVDs on Wii...it is a good thing to have. Then again this probably goes back to the whole Homebrew fight...

[DemonParasite]

It's not worth their time, is the problem. Once again, most people have a DVD player, and the quality of sound, as stated above, is better on the 360. There's no point in it, it's just an extra little feature that would probably not gain enough money from to be worth it. It would take too much time and money to build a feature that a lot of people would have no need for. Look at the Internet Channel. It only costs $5, but hardly anyone even uses it. It's because it's not worth 5 dollars for an inferior method of browsing.

im part of that small % that uses that channel.... see my computer is so stinkin lousy rotten slow it just drives me nuts! i have to wait 5 min before it loads a site, 30 min before it completly starts internet explorer and that is just annoying! with the wii it takes 30 sec. to load the channel. and 2-4 sec. to load a site. so its VERY useful to me

I can't even imagine that. How much RAM do you have, like 300 MB or something? I have a 3 year old machine with only 473 MB of RAM, and it works fine. You should seriously think about getting a new computer.

[Austin]

i may be exagerating a LITTLE BIT. and again i say A LITTLE BIT!


lol ill upload i vid so you can imagin it :P

[DemonParasite]

You might want to try getting off of internet exploder. Try Opera, Firefox, or Google Chrome. All of those will give you a performance boost over IE. IE also has a new exploit, where a hacker can access all your data, and get your credit card numbers, personal information, and pretty much anything. Even Microsoft says not to use it anymore.

[Jassim]

they mustve targetted dvdx somewhere in their updates it cant simply get blocked randomly they mustve disabled it.

[DemonParasite]

They blocked it because of the backup loader, and the blocked all fakesigned and trucha signed disks/programs. They didn't target DVDx, they targeted the piracy program that was enabled via DVDx. And it was the October 23rd update. The fakesign/trucha sign blocking also prevented WAD installation.

[Austin]

You might want to try getting off of internet exploder. Try Opera, Firefox, or Google Chrome. All of those will give you a performance boost over IE. IE also has a new exploit, where a hacker can access all your data, and get your credit card numbers, personal information, and pretty much anything. Even Microsoft says not to use it anymore.

REALLY!!? THX FOR THE INFO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GREATLY APPRETIATED!!!!!!!!!