"Unofficial Wii DVD Playback Now Available, Requires Modded Wii!!"

"It 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 â€â€Âlike those Nintendo doesn't want you to have. Team Symbiote's hack looks simple, but requires you to start up from a CD and then change to the DVD. Not very practical but if it works as claimed it shows Nintendo can do it. So why the Big N doesn't give us DVD playback on Wii?

The only reasonable explanation is that DVD playback will make the Nintendo more expensive or their margins less juicy, as it will require them to pay licensing fees. However, if it's possible to do this in software, one way to do it would be to release a DVD Channel in their Shopping Channel and get the final user pay those fees. Easy and painless for everyone, but

Would you buy a DVD Channel for your Wii?" link

Theses are the polling results (20th Aug)

Hell Yeah!

30.9% (1243 votes)

No, I don't care

28.3% (1139 votes)

Yes, but only for $10 or so


36.5% (1466 votes)

Agree?

 

I wouldn't want to set my Wii up to watch DVD's because i have my DVD player plus my PS2 but i suppose its good for the people that want to view DVD's from there Wii.

 

I'd rather use my dvd player to watch dvd's instead of my Wii.

 

I would never pay extra for a DVD channel, unless it offered something that no other regular DVD player can do.
Luckily, I can use this MFE DVD player for free, if for some strange reason I want to watch a DVD on my wii.

 

I would download a channel for watching DVDs as long as it didn't cost too much

 

I would buy it for 1000 points

 

well i think that people who want to pay for those type of thing don't hve a computer =)

 

Amazing...

 

that seems cool

 

Or, you could just brake the movie clip into peaces and then run it altogether in the photo channel

 

DVD Channel?!
I'd definitely look into it.