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DVD Playback on Wii

Have you been waiting on Nintendo to release a DVD supporting version of the console? Forget them. One of the talented members of Team Twiizers (The same people who brought you the Twilight Hack and the Homebrew Channel) have enabled DVD playback on un-modded Wii's with DVDX.

Tons of Nintendo fanboys blah about DVD playback because anyone saying they want it must be saying something bad about Nintendo's choice to skip the Licensing fees necessary, and to them, Ninty can do no wrong. Tons of other console fanboys laugh at the lack of a hi-def format. People with Wiis but who don't have a DVD player in every room just got a freebie and don't care what fanboys of any stripe think. Or if you're like me, and your 6 year old piece of crap player is on the fritz, you don't have to blow money for a new living room player.

Quality isn't spot on in the first release. You'll can choose between skipping some frames on occasion or losing audio sync. I'd recommend skipping frames. I expect better software once the twiizers have had more time to tool around with it.