First Impressions: Wii Web browsing

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1. I tested it this morning and it runs H*R perfectly, with sound.Anything that renders Strong Bad is awesome by default.

2. Wii browsing right now. I'm very pleased – can definitely see myself checking movie times or whatnot. Also it'll be cool to be stuck in a game, switch over to the web, hit Gamefaqs, then pop back into the game.Now if only they worked a grafitti-like (sp?) input style for text…

3. H*R was my first check, as well.Pandora doesn't work.YouTube, full screen videos, works well.Infendo is pretty, too.Can't wait to try some Meebo.com chat and try to play some Flash games.I wonder what features the non-demo version will add in the Spring.

4. When i woke up this morning and saw the great blue light shining in my tv room, i became confused what day it was. Was it xmas!?!?!? No it was only dec 22 wiinet launch day. This morning instead of doing my normal web rounds, with a bowl of captain crunch and my computer. I did it with my wii instead.

5. Sorry guys, but wtf is H*R?

6. Infendo was my first view. It was alright. Makes me realize how crappy the resolution of my TV is…

7. I'm writing this on my Wii. That autocomplete is a really handy feature. Youtube won't work however. All in all quite neat, if I didn't have a computer sitting next to me…

8. Youtube worked fine for me. Maybe you did something wrong?

9. youtube told me i had an old version of flash or had javascript disabled.- written from wii

10. It seems nice, but I will probably continue to use my laptop for browsing at the couch. It takes just as long. Plus, you can't save images or do tabbed browsing on the Wii, so I can't leave my email open while browsing the web. But, I have to say that this is about what I expected it to do. Anything that gets added in 2007 in the full version will be a bonus.

11. For some games try wiicade.com

12. Saw the blue light on Wii this morning, thought it was a birthday present… and it was! I got my Opera browser downloaded, and it works perfectly on all the sites that I cared for… YouTube, Infendo, Intendo, Metacritic, Indienudes, Google, IMDB, etc… I haven't tried a Flash game, but I'll be sure to try that out tonight!The "zoom" feature is VERY handy!

13. SO THIS IS THAT FAMOUS INTERNET EVERYONE TALKS ABOUT? pretty neat… tons of sites already about everything!

14. For some reason Youtube fails to work for me as well. Although Youtube videos embedded in other pages load and run fine, when I attempt to search for a specific video and open it on youtube, where the video should be, there is only some text saying my flash player is out of date and needs updating. If someone knows a way to get around this, I'd much appreciate it if they would post it here.

15. Happy Birthday, I-man!Also, YouTube no longer works for me, though it was fine this morning. Did YouTube update it's video encoding?

16. my wii connect is always connected but it only seems to be able to go to the shop channel one out of about 9 tries and that is a try per day so i will eventually get opera…but i dont see the piint cause if im lokin for a cheat or a simple hint that i then regret doing cause it was such a stupid waste of my time and ruining an amazing game is easy to do with my lap top but what they would need then is a way to be running opera with a game caue if its using the same processor and a Powerbook g4 then i dont see where there would be a problem..

17. Hey Anon,The 'period' is at the bottom-right of the keyboard. Use it!

18. did anyone else get Luigi running accross their screen instead of Mario for the Opera download? I have a pic up of it at brownkidd.blogger.com if anyone wants to check it out.

19. i got mario

20. WTF is H*R

21. homestarrunner.com

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