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Unofficial Wii DVD Playback Now Available, Requires Modded Wii

gizmodo.com — Looks like DVD playback is finally available for Wii, but it doesn't come from Nintendo and it will require you to have a modded console. Team Symbiote's hack looks simple, although it requires you to start up from a CD and then change to the DVD pressing the z button. However, this shows that the Wii console can do it. Where's the update, Big N?

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  • Fraff5, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Right in time for High School Musical 2!!
  • abid786, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I accidentally buried your story. What will happen to me now?
  • drachemorder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Which is more evidence that DRM is evil, since it's preventing us from having useful, legal capabilities.
  • ajskhan, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I am sure nintendo will release an update sooner or later. (an official update, that is!)
  • Cyberbladewolf, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1This is useless. Absolutely useless. If you have the money for the Wii, and the technical knowledge required to mod it, you most likely have a DVD player already in some form or another. Hell, if you just have the money for the Wii, you most likely have the money for a DVD player. Not that either is really expensive.
  • carpespasm, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sometimes people just like to be creative and make things they didn't originally do. even if they could have done it with something they already have. this is one of those things that if you don't get, you probably weren't meant to,
  • PhoenixAvatar2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yes, but some of us like to have things for free. Not that I have the money for a mod chip, but I'd like to have a DVD player upstairs without paying any extra.
  • Itazura, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Because modding is legal in the first place, nope.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0booooo

    Spontaneous song and dance FTL!
  • NeoTechni, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1This update doesn't prove Wii can do the Macrovision copy protection required to play DVDs legally
  • DsLiteRulez, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2This story is a DUPLICATE by 40 minutes (so bury it), here is the original Digg Story - http://www.digg.com/gaming_news/Wii_gets_DVD_Playback_via_Homebrew_Software
  • loganhid, on 10/10/2007, -5/+2First a clock and now a DVD playback feature - Nintendo are taking the next-gen by storm

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