DVD patch

Master Foot · 12-05-2006, 03:44 PM

There is word going around that DVD Wii may never see the light of day. Even if it comes out in 2007, the market will be flooded with Wiis and I doubt that people will sell their Wiis for DVD playback. I would like for the Wii to be compatible with external HDDs or jump drives in order to store and play MP3s.

WiiLink · 12-05-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Master Foot

There is word going around that DVD Wii may never see the light of day. Even if it comes out in 2007, the market will be flooded with Wiis and I doubt that people will sell their Wiis for DVD playback. I would like for the Wii to be compatible with external HDDs or jump drives in order to store and play MP3s.

From what I heard, I don't know for sure because I don't have the game, you can use your own MP3 files during Excite Truck play. It would be nice to have that option for more games such as....Smash Bros.

Wiiaretheworld · 12-06-2006, 03:29 AM

Nintendo will most likely offer an HD DVD drive in about a year or two.

csiguy4u · 12-06-2006, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Wiiaretheworld

Nintendo will most likely offer an HD DVD drive in about a year or two.

Ya, if they upgrade the Wii to output greater than 480p. . .otherwise it'd be pointless. This would definatley require a bigger processor and a large firmware upgrade. . .basically a new modle to support HD.

It'd be more likely that the Wii2 will be fully HD compliant.

theiceman72 · 12-06-2006, 04:11 AM

who the heck watches dvd's with game systems? who really cares that the wii cant play dvds? they need to make a patch to something that people actually want. like how about giving more options on the miis? maybe give us more colors ? how about the ability to mix change colors?

wii love gamin · 12-06-2006, 04:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ocdan

Ive been hearing now that the DVD upgrade will be a downloadable patch in the future... true?

no not true, false

wele · 12-06-2006, 04:16 AM

i don't have dvd player, thus the reason why i'm a little ticked

brejcha · 12-06-2006, 04:20 AM

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Originally Posted by csiguy4u

I'd rather have an upgrade so that the Wii could play MP3's via an external HD. That would be of more use than a 2nd DVD player.

Actually I was reading on http://digg.com somewhere that they have found an easy way to read any external hardrive and use it as a SD storage on the Wii. Basically you have an SD card in there. Then you take the card out or something while placing the USB Hardrive in and Vola...its reads the hardrive as an SD card. And you can put all the music and videos you want on it.

Then you can use programs like Video9 I believe or Video format converters for the Wii and use the external to play your whole media library from the Wii.

Pretty sweet eh

xbandaidx · 12-06-2006, 04:23 AM

Anyone that can confirm this?

I doubt it works though.

csiguy4u · 12-06-2006, 04:57 AM

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Originally Posted by brejcha

Actually I was reading on http://digg.com somewhere that they have found an easy way to read any external hardrive and use it as a SD storage on the Wii. Basically you have an SD card in there. Then you take the card out or something while placing the USB Hardrive in and Vola...its reads the hardrive as an SD card. And you can put all the music and videos you want on it.

Then you can use programs like Video9 I believe or Video format converters for the Wii and use the external to play your whole media library from the Wii.

Pretty sweet eh

Ya, this was confirmed to be false.

http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/The_...nal_USB_Drives

Master Foot · 12-06-2006, 05:37 AM

Then again, should DVD compatibility even matter!? The only time that I watched a DVD on my PS2 was to mess around with the functions. There are progressive scan DVD players for less than US$50.

It would be nice to just have a downloadable patch though

nyk0n · 12-06-2006, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Master Wii

Would be cool if this actually happened. I do have a DVD player but it would be nice to save some extra space and outlet slots, along with wires etc.

too bad the Wii doesn't support Dolby Digital or DTS or include a S/PDIF or optical port to make the DVD's 5.1 or better

I would never use my Wii for DVD playback with no 5.1 options on it would be a waste of my ears time

BlenderWizard · 12-06-2006, 01:59 PM

Just to drop my $.02 here... I used to be a manager at a GameStop, and people were always bringing PS2's and XBOX's in that stopped working.

We would always ask how much they watched movies on the systems. 99.9% said they watched movies all the time. Somehow, I don't think that was a coincidence.

Use the consoles for playing games, and buy a DVD player to watch movies.

At least that's how I feel.

vlad · 12-06-2006, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by BlenderWizard

Just to drop my $.02 here... I used to be a manager at a GameStop, and people were always bringing PS2's and XBOX's in that stopped working.

We would always ask how much they watched movies on the systems. 99.9% said they watched movies all the time. Somehow, I don't think that was a coincidence.

Use the consoles for playing games, and buy a DVD player to watch movies.

At least that's how I feel.

i have friends that used to work for GameStop where i live and they tell me the exact same thing.
it's like the system becomes either a permanent DVD player or game console depending on what you've used most.

rtr1900 · 12-13-2006, 01:26 PM

Here in Spain,
The official magazine of Nintendo confirmed that by the end of 2007 the Wii for the US and japones Market will play DVD movies. European will fall out of the boat