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| Tuesday, March 30, 2010 01:43 PM |
| Netfliix |
 by Fëanor |
A while back I read that Netflix would be offering its watch instantly service through the Wii, and I immediately signed up to receive the Wii disc. The disc just arrived in the mail a few days ago, and poppy and I have already used it a couple of times. It's pretty fantastic. You can browse your Watch Instantly queue, or any of various genres, add or remove items from your queue, rate movies you've already seen and, of course, watch anything instantly. The video quality, while certainly not HD, is still surprisingly good. The movies stream smoothly and cleanly with no hiccups. You can pause for as long as you want, and easily scroll through the movie practically shot by shot. The only issue we've had so far was with one TV show; at one point it jumped back a scene and started replaying. That might have been a random issue with that particular DVD transfer. Anyway, it was easy to skip past.
We've used Netflix's Watch Instantly service before, and had even figured out a way to view it on the TV by hooking up our laptop, but it was an awkward and slightly complex setup and maybe because of that we didn't use it that often. Netflix on Wii, on the other hand, is easy and fun and I think we'll be using it a lot more frequently. |
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