Comments on: StumbleUpon + Wii = Killer App for New TV?

By: YouTube Introduces “TV Website” For Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 « NewTeeVee

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:59:02 +0000

[...] if you’re not too picky about what you watch, but right now, I’d say your better bet is Stumbleupon’s video channel for the Wii. At the moment, the best way to use YouTube’s “TV Website” might be to create a [...]

By: StumbleUpon Adds Six Video Hosts « NewTeeVee

StumbleUpon Adds Six Video Hosts « NewTeeVee — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:48:57 +0000

[...] reviewed StumbleVideo favorably when it first came out in December 2006, and have been especially interested in its early (if a little wonky) implementation on the Wii. It’s a no-fuss way to [...]

By: The Wii is a social entertainment device - FileFront Gaming Forums

The Wii is a social entertainment device - FileFront Gaming Forums — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:58:27 +0000

[...] back in 2006. A year later, but perhaps more famously, Stumble Upon took a few weeks to make a Wii custom interface for Stumble Video. What we realized is in our few weeks of working on it is that if you play to the Wii�s strengths [...]

By: ffwd team blog » Blog Archive » The Wii is a social entertainment device

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:43:06 +0000

By: Hollywood Embraces Blu-ray…and Format Obsolescence, Too? « NewTeeVee

Hollywood Embraces Blu-ray…and Format Obsolescence, Too? « NewTeeVee — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:06:45 +0000

[...] fairly successful video download service, Wii owners enjoying Net-delivered video with StumbleUpon’s widget, and everyone else sticking with HDMi cable. Meantime, in their ambition to dominate by eliminating [...]

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:53:07 +0000

We have a version of ffwd running on a Wii in our "living room lab". The problem we've encoutered is the Wii version of Flash is perpetually behind the the content sources.

By: smojo

smojo — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:11:02 +0000

I gave Stumble.tv a try tonight and really liked it. It looked pretty good and the only thing I had problems with was when metacafe videos came up. Hopefully the flash player gets upgraded soon so we can enjoy videos from all the video sharing sites. Theres so much potential with the Wii and I hope that nintendo updates a few things to make it even better.

By: Matt D.

Matt D. — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:52:24 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. Stumble.TV rocks.

By: Matt_

Matt_ — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:00:50 +0000

Ive said since last December when I first saw Joost that the Joost UI is perfectly suited to the Wii and the On screen keyboard could be used for searches .

The Wii may not be powerful enough for the existing versions of Joost ,but Joost needs to be migrating to the living room within the next year and have a large install base with user that leave thier machines for a long time (Wii Connect) even with the Wii's limited storage space the numbers of Wii in the market could counteract that .

Im hoping that a content distributor has a good look at the Wii in 2008 and develops a WiiWare channel and the cost of Wii development is fairly low compared to other game consoles .The Wii remote only needs to replicate the fucntions of a mouse but they could throw in some tilt funtions so you could scroll though channel listings like the 3d mouse on Linux MCE..

Reggie Fils-Aime said that there Wii be some game related channels and non game related channels on WiiWare in 2008 so heres hoping that Joost ,Hulu or anyone else developing a content distribution service is looking at the Wii in 2008.

By: Frank Sinton

Frank Sinton — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:21:01 +0000

We recently had a conversation about this over at the videoblogging group, titled “Forget Apple TV – What about the Nintendo Wii ??”:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/message/67036

There are a few technical challenges, mainly Adobe needs to upgrade their SDK support for Opera from 7 to the latest version. Hopefully, this solves some memory issues.

The numbers are staggering for the Wii – why are so many people talking about Facebook when the Wii is growing at an even larger rate??

Maybe some of the cable providers and set top box manufactures will take note of this trend and also offer built-in browsers and WiFi. :)