Top 5 Things You Might Not Know About Your Wii
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Gnomie Samueltehg33k (from our chat room) writes:
- The Wii can be used to play .avi movies and .mp3 music files.
If you have either of these two formats of video/audio, you can use them through the Photo Channel. You can access them through your SD card port on the Wii using the Photo Channel 1.0. Photo Channel 1.1 was just released and it supposedly can play more audio formats, but it does not list the file types on the Nintendo Web site. - You can use a wired connection for the Wii.
Nintendo does supply a huge, boxlike thing for your Wii so you can use a wired connection if you do not have a router or the Windows OS to run the Wi-Fi hub on. - The Wii is HD!
The Wii can only go on component cables to 480p, but it is HD compatible — so your dream of having Zelda in High Definition is possible. - Keyboards work with Wii’s Opera Web browser.
The once-free Web browser does work with keyboards using the USB ports. Finally, it won’t take you six minutes to get to live.pirillo.com so that you can watch Chris on your Wii. And yes, Mac fans, your old white keyboard will work and look spiffy next to your Wii. - WiiMail!
Your Wii is also an email machine. Using the Wii message board, you can email all your friends. (Although using an email address with W[insert16 digit friend code here]@Wii.com my not look nice to use on a business card!)
One Comment
Eric
March 6th, 2008
at 10:18pm
The Wii can play .avi’s, yes, but unless they’ve updated it through firmware, they need to be converted to MJPEG format before being played, so you can’t just drop a divx file on your SD card and go to town.
Wii Video 9 (Google will turn it up, I’m sure) is a freeware option to convert videos to a Wii-friendly format, but be aware that the size increases A LOT. A file that’s a few megs can end up over 40, and a full TV episode length file could easily be larger than a gigabyte when all is said and done.
Seeing as the photo channel also has no capability to rewind or even pause video, I find the whole thing to be too much hassle to be worth it, personally. :-(