Wii Multimedia Channel?

[zerosaurus]

sc94597 said:

zerosaurus said:

I'm curious why it would take more?

Essentially look at your computer's ability to play DVD's. A DVD-ROM and decoding software... that's all you need.

With a Wii you have the DVD-ROM, so just add the decoding software. Perhaps internal memory is lacking to keep the rate of viewing ideal for a human being. Maybe one spends more time buffering and loading than actually viewing? I can't imagine a DVD encoded video stream needs as much memory as say a videogame....

That's what they said when they confirmed a new wii with dvd playback.

 About the memory part? Interesting. I thought maybe a hardware cache was the reason behind a new version, though I imagined the existing one was sufficent considering it's used for video games. Maybe it is insufficent?