Netflix Might Make It To Wii Yet

Might need to wait for the next generation to make this worthwhile, unless you don't care about HD movies.

Would love an on demand service for the Wii, don't care much for HD it's too Microsoft/Sony

That'd be sweet.

I'll just wait for the next console before laying down any Wii points on a movie.

I doubt I'd use it. Also, it seems a little late to be starting this, doesn't it? If this had been available a couple of years ago, they might have snagged some money from me.

I do not own anything HD and wont until my current stuff quits so that does not effect me. Netflix is awesome and over 50% cheaper than going to the movie store. I watch some stuff on my PC. Really have no need for it on my Wii but I am sure a ton of people would welcome it.

since i now have netflix, i'd love this service on the wii. i don't care if it's not in hd (if it was, my internet probably couldn't stream it anyway :b).

I'd love to see if whether its on this system or the next system. This would make it so i don't have to use my PS2 to watch dvds anymore or my Laptop. HD doesn't matter to me.

awesome.

@LinktotheFuture: I don't care about HD movies, so bring it on.

I am surprised by how many people don't care about HD. I guess it won't really matter, at least for the people on this site anyway.

The Wii's wifi and streaming isn't good enough for this, at least in my experience. This is likely news for the Wii HD or Wii2.

I have it on my PS3 360 and my laptop. While I welcome it for other users, I personally doubt I will bother with it.

Considering the BBC iPlayer works surprisingly well with movies (I watched The Increadables on it the other week), I can't see why Netflix wouldn't work on the Wii, at least in SD. Although my connection is a little flaky (the last five minutes of said movie had buffering problems), so I probably would pass on this (plus, UK and all that).

If this can be pulled off, it would be awesome.

Well my family has been wondering if the Wii could use Netflix. it'd be nice.

As nifty as this would be, I've got VOD with my cable provider and it has a decent selection of pay, free, and subscription (HBO, Starz, Showtime, etc) programming that I wouldn't really have much use for this.

Would be nice on Wii since my family uses the service.

But the Wii can barely stream decent quality YouTube vids without running out of memory so "Wii2/Wii HD" would be a nice fit whenever Nintendo begins to talk about new consoles.

Movie streaming for the DS2 would be awesome, comined with 3G connectivety which has been in the talks as well...

Wii No Ma.

Sounds good if it comes for the current Wii. I don't even have an HD TV (and my family, myself included, doesn't see any reason to get one any time soon), so I certainly don't care about HD consoles.

By the way, is Netflix cheaper than Red Box ($1.00 + tax per movie)?

And 2010 for gaming keeps getting better.

US gets movies, UK gets BBC, I dunno about the Japs, yet we get nothing.

@Bulbasaurus: The cheapest unlimited streaming plan clocks in at $8.99/mo (plus you get one disc out), so depending on how much you wind up watching I'd say it can blow Red Box out of the water.

Mario's favorite move is the Super Mario Bros. Movie. Am I really the first person to make this joke?

"Any guesses as to Mario's favourite film?"
No it's not the Mario Bros. Movie

EDIT:@BlueProtoman Ur a Ninja!

Mario's favorite movie is The Godfather.

DO WANT.

Usually we would have to hook a laptop up to our T.V. to watch Netflix, so I would welcome the possiblilty of a Netflix Channel with open arms.

If the Wii can handle Wii No Ma (mind you, this is a movie delvery service as well)... then yes, then the Wii can handle Netflix.

Well, I can't care. I live in one of the least streaming-involved country known. There aren't even any movies in the iTunes store available.

Wii No Ma works very well as does the iPlayer. The only streaming issues I've had are with the Japanese Nintendo Channel and Wii no Ma buffering, but that's understandable given I'm trying to stream from servers on the other side of the world.

I would love a video on demand service. In the past I saw little point, but the fact is that Blockbuster's poor business practices (threatening letters if a film is a day late and ludicrous fees?) and the promise of a wider selection make this prospect quite appealing. Maybe lovefilm.com could do a similar thing for the UK?

To answer the streaming question, doesn't netflix save to the xbox hard drive before you can watch? Could that be possible for an SD card, or is SD too slow to watch a movie from.

I'll believe it when I see it.

@Mach-X: I would expect any Netflix Channel to do like the Nintendo or Internet Channels and create a cache file where the content could be saved to prior to playback -- it would likely depend upon how Netflix wants to handle it. From what I recall Wii no Ma does more buffering than the Nintendo Channel which will often pause to download more (or because the stream is being interrupted).

I think the problem from a development viewpoint is whether to make users wait for an entire stream to download and risk irritating them or start playback right away and risk their experience suffering due to problems with their connection.

I went to www.Wikiwebpedia.com I put in the search bar List of Wiiware games & Wii Channels & I found out that a new Wii Channel called Wii Video on Demand Channel released in Japan May 1st & that it's coming this year to Europe & North America but not Australia cause they have the BBC Iplayer Channel & it's only fair for all region's to have a video on Demand service.