Wii Room: TV On Your Wii
Nintendo recently launched a new service in Japan yesterday called Wii no Ma, or, Wii Room in English. The service lets you purchase licensed television content for Wii Points. The Japanese version launched with shows like Sesame Street and Pokemon available for download which shows you the target audience and range of this service. Individual episodes go for about ¥30 to ¥500 ($.35 - $5.63). Videos can also be watched on the DSi.
What do you guys think about this? Personally if I'm going to pay for this kind of data I'd like to have it as non-proprietary as possible. It's bad enough having my iTunes files locked to an individual computer, I'd hate to have certain shows and episodes locked to a specific player. But something tells me that's not the market their going for--from the programming selection it looks like the aim is to sell more Wii Points to the younger players who are probably the primary consumers for Wii Points in the first place. It seems to me to be a lot more like the successor to Game Boy Advance Video than a serious new digital distribution platform.
Wii Pay-Per-View Programming Introduced In Japan [via Engadget]
Bradamantium
Posted to Video Games, Videos on 24 November 2009
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um... you can link your itunes music to five computers, not one. secondly, by converting it to another format, you strip that limitation from it, as far as I know. so that is really a moot point.
Yeah, my understanding is that if you burn the music to a CD and then rip it back to your computer, it strips it of DRM. I haven't done it myself, so it could very well be just a rumor.