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Movie streaming service coming to Wii this year?

Curt Marvis, Lionsgate's president of digital media, has said in an interview with Variety that he expects Nintendo to launch a movie streaming service for the Wii, as early as the Q3 of this year.

Lionsgate is a big fan of offering digital content and currently has deals with Sony and Microsoft, making content available through Xbox Live and PSN.



"The thing that is clearly a force in digital are the game devices," said Marvis.

"I think when we see the Wii come into the market with the ability to stream movies, which I think is maybe going to happen as soon as this year, I think that’s going to be a big marketplace for digital distribution."

Although Nintendo has not confirmed the report or announced any such plans, the move would make sense as the console has enough on-board storage to be able to buffer streaming video.

Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 13 Mar 2009 0:11

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• DXR88

  um? ok cool...i guess.

  13.3.2009 00:24 #1

• b18bek9

  wii lacking performance for streaming?

  13.3.2009 01:11 #2

• lamain

  More VoD the better.

  13.3.2009 02:42 #3

• ZippyDSM

  Originally posted by b18bek9: wii lacking performance for streaming?
  Its perfect for SD streaming though I wonder how they will do it, its going to need a 10GB+ storage device for cacheing and such.
  
  
  Hell Nin could slap in a up converting system and HDMI outputs without losing money on current unit profit.
  
  Nin has the funds lets see if they can put them to good use.

  13.3.2009 04:13 #4

• looser_ur

  Who cares!!!!
  
  Streaming is crap quality unless you pay out the wazoo for it. Just saw the Netflix streaming...............UGHHHHH..........terrible quality.
  
  I'll just download from BitTorrents and if I don't want then I'll delete it when I'm done "renting" it for free.

  13.3.2009 13:18 #5

• xugiua

  Originally posted by looser_ur: Who cares!!!!
  
  Streaming is crap quality unless you pay out the wazoo for it. Just saw the Netflix streaming...............UGHHHHH..........terrible quality.
  
  I'll just download from BitTorrents and if I don't want then I'll delete it when I'm done "renting" it for free.So you must have a bad video card in your computer or no memory or slow internet. Because when I stream it looks like a DVD. Did you see screen that says it's checking the speed of your system? Did you think you had a fast computer?

  13.3.2009 15:53 #6

• cyprusrom

  Quote:...I wonder how they will do it, its going to need a 10GB+ storage device for cacheing and such.
  
  
  HWhy would it need 10GB+?
  Quote:...Roku...does not have on-board storage capacity for more than a few seconds of buffered video...and works fine, you just need to maintain a certain Mb internet speed...

  13.3.2009 17:02 #7

• looser_ur

  Quote:Originally posted by looser_ur: Who cares!!!!
  
  Streaming is crap quality unless you pay out the wazoo for it. Just saw the Netflix streaming...............UGHHHHH..........terrible quality.
  
  I'll just download from BitTorrents and if I don't want then I'll delete it when I'm done "renting" it for free.So you must have a bad video card in your computer or no memory or slow internet. Because when I stream it looks like a DVD. Did you see screen that says it's checking the speed of your system? Did you think you had a fast computer?
  My boss showed me on his core 2 duo laptop. Standard not-so-great video card in that thing. 3 GB memory. Wasn't a video card or h/w issue. It was fuzzy, and though watchable, definitely not DVD quality. Your standards are just low. Get your eyes checked too.

  13.3.2009 17:10 #8

• cyprusrom

  Originally posted by looser_ur: Who cares!!!!
  
  My boss showed me on his core 2 duo laptop. Standard not-so-great video card in that thing. 3 GB memory. Wasn't a video card or h/w issue. It was fuzzy, and though watchable, definitely not DVD quality. Your standards are just low. Get your eyes checked too.
  Not sure how the streaming looks on a TV, but on my PC, looks GOOD. Maybe because I am not smoking all that good stuff that puts the fuzz on your brain...Or tell your boss to dust off his screen once in a month...

  13.3.2009 17:17 #9

• savlon

  hi guys , i have twonky medea and its brill it playes every thing i through at it and the picture is like blue ray movies and it plays all ITUNES music to my Daughters bed room ,and it shows all my photoes i run it through my play station 3 i bought my play station 3 when it first come out not for games but for movies , i wanted it for to play blueray movies but at the start i found streaming my movies from my pc at one end off my bunglow and my daughter was on the computer my movies done a bit of stuttering so i though well i will just go back to burning them etc but then i found on the net thes plugs that you plug into your eltric sokets in the wall and hey presto its brillant now , it can go through an xbox two , i bought this it cost around $24 and as i am 67years old i got a young lad to set it up for me and that cost me £30 and the plughs i bough on ebay for £26 i think they are around £80, there is another streamer called tversity i think the nam is and its surposed to be better than twonky media but i can say i have the best of blue ray players, dvd recorders and a 50 inch pioneer HD tv so the quality is perfect when i stream my movies from the pc , oh just a note after i bough twonky media i found it on the net on a movie site so if you look around you wll get it free lol ok hope this is a help. have a nice day

  14.3.2009 13:15 #10

• DXR88

  Originally posted by savlon: hi guys , i have twonky medea and its brill it playes every thing i through at it and the picture is like blue ray movies and it plays all ITUNES music to my Daughters bed room ,and it shows all my photoes i run it through my play station 3 i bought my play station 3 when it first come out not for games but for movies , i wanted it for to play blueray movies but at the start i found streaming my movies from my pc at one end off my bunglow and my daughter was on the computer my movies done a bit of stuttering so i though well i will just go back to burning them etc but then i found on the net thes plugs that you plug into your eltric sokets in the wall and hey presto its brillant now , it can go through an xbox two , i bought this it cost around $24 and as i am 67years old i got a young lad to set it up for me and that cost me £30 and the plughs i bough on ebay for £26 i think they are around £80, there is another streamer called tversity i think the nam is and its surposed to be better than twonky media but i can say i have the best of blue ray players, dvd recorders and a 50 inch pioneer HD tv so the quality is perfect when i stream my movies from the pc , oh just a note after i bough twonky media i found it on the net on a movie site so if you look around you wll get it free lol ok hope this is a help. have a nice dayOkay...?
  
  its called Powerline Ethernet and i don't know what that has anything to do with this topic.
  

  
  

  14.3.2009 17:42 #11