CAN WII handle STREAMMING Viedo like NETFLIX? I doubt..

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LordTheNightKnight on 21 March 2009

famousringo said:

Pretendo said:
It streams video from the Nintendo Channel. i don't see why it couldn't for Netflix.
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Exactly. Nintendo is already streaming video with the Wii. It isn't rocket surgery, you know.

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shams on 21 March 2009

The Wii is easily capable of video streaming. Even the DS could handle this in some form, for the Wii its trivial.

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NJ5 on 21 March 2009

For those who need some numbers to get convinced:

According to this source, a 480p widescreen stream using the H.264 codec requires 1700 kbps of bandwidth, or 212.5 KB/s.

Even if they allocate only 40 MB of memory for the streaming buffer, this is enough for more than 3 minutes of video. If your connection isn't stable enough to keep this buffer from running out, you have much bigger problems than your Wii's specs.

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