Wii High-Definition

[Mnementh]

Entroper said:

Kwaad said:
The wii hardware can do DVD. There are mod chips out there already that can do it. (or are supposed to do it)

This I believe, but doesn't Nintendo have to pay a licensing fee to sell a DVD player?  That would suggest to me that DVD playback might be a channel that you pay like 500 Wii Points for, rather than a simple firmware update, otherwise Nintendo would immediately have to pay millions of dollars in licensing fees for all the Wiis already sold.

License fees are the reason, some chinese manufacturers created a new standard: EVD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Versatile_Disc). So an update sounds unlikely, the DVD-channel may be possible.