Still can’t believe that Sony claimed the PS3 Netflix disc made special use of Blu-ray even though they put a disc out on the PLAYSTATION TWO in Brazil.
Netflix probably doesn’t care about the Switch at this point. They only care about greenlighting more crap originals to overweight the upcoming losses of The Office and Friends.
@@MysteryMii More like Nintendo doesn't care about Netflix at this point. As much as these guys are trying to credit Wii for Netflix's success, the PS3 was the more popular system. With the XBL Gold paywall holding back the 360.
@@Bobby90 [Citation Needed] Netflix has had years to go ahead and develop an app for the Switch. Nintendo's not stopping them at all, unless you want to go into some conspiracy stuff between Nintendo and Hulu; I'd rather not.
Bobby90 I'm sorry, but *_what!?_* On what planet was the PS3 more popular than the Wii? The Wii sold over 100 million units, and while the PS3 sold pretty well too, it didn't sell quite that many.
True but it is weird Nintendo has showcased games in their Directs this year based on Netflix shows, Stranger Things on the Nindies Showcase and Dark Crystal at E3
When I was in college back when Wii streaming became a thing, I noticed a TON of students would use the Wii as a streaming device. You'd go to a house party for the girl's soccer team and while they didn't have an Xbox or a PS3, they had a Wii in the living room that was dedicated to exactly two things: Netflix and Mario Kart. It was sensible, too. Most content at that point was DVD quality at 480p, many dorm TVs were only 720p max, and the Wii was dirt cheap. So if you're a student and broke as all hell, the Wii was a great alternative to the cable box considering you probably had an internet bill anyway to get your homework done.
Putting Netflix on the Wii was great for Nintendo. Alot of people I knew back in the day used the Wii as a Netflix box when the novelty of Wii Sports wore off. Netflix probably kept the thing from flooding pawn shops, Gamestops and thrift stores.
Pretty sure 80% of Wii households still have it at all for the fact it streams Netflix. How many times can somebody play Mario Party before you want to chuck the whole thing out of an open window
Honestly knew so many people who uses their Wii for Netflix machines well in to 2017-2018 that it shocked me. Considering a fire stick is what, $50? Definitely probably the main use for the Wii console in the second half of this decade.
@@BeesonsCars why shouldn't they? If you could stream Netflix at home via some old Wii with $50 in your pocket OR buy a Fire stick and turn the Wii into a paperweight instantly to have $0.00 left in your pockets which would you do?
I *need* the PS2 Netflix disc. 😂 It's so unusual and quirky. What's even weirder is that the PSP had an unofficial RUclips client, but Netflix didn't come to it, although having the streaming capabilities. Like, even Sony and Google themselves skipped the PSP for whatever reason.
So BD Live was actually a real thing. It had nothing to do with making the movies work. Instead, it dealt with features that Blu-Ray players that could connect to the internet could use, such as extra internet content (images, video), polls, or live chats with cast/crew (though the last is rare). Normally, you'd have to have the actual Blu-Ray disc to have access to these things in the first place, but Sony and Netflix enabled viewers through Netflix to have those features as well. It was all a gimmick to push Blu-Ray content as Sony was wary of losing the format war even to Netflix.
@Mojave they got rid of the star rating after one of the female comics complained about the star rating system because she said it was trolls that gave her a bad rating not her shit comedy! Netflix is left leaning now they have no ratings at all just 👍👎that's it !
Yeah I miss the reviews system. While most reviews were garbage on Netflix, I know how to sift through them and find reviews that actually provide some insight or proper criticism. Now I typically have to go elsewhere to look up what I'm getting into with a new show or movie I've never heard about, especially in anything released more recently.
I find it odd Netflix isn’t on Switch even though for some reason Nintendo Directs this year feature games based on Netflix shows, Dark Crystal and Stranger Thing Meanwhile it’s already confirmed Disney+ is already coming to Switch
Not mutually exclusive, but you probably knew that already.
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Is Disney+ confirmed? I think they said they are interested in being on the Switch (and other consoles and platforms) but I don't think it was really "confirmed".
Most TVs now have a Netflix app. On the go, you need wifi, so why not just use your phone which can use wifi or data. I think Netflix on the Switch would be a gimmick.
I'm at work now and should not be watching this, but screw it! As a Brazilian, I need to see what's the deal with that ps2 disc, never heard of it until now!
This channel is super underrated. You guys should have multiple millions of subscribers for the quality of content you put out. And Past Mortem is one of my favorite segments, just behind Punching Weight. ;)
I'm glad you did a video on this. Back when it was required, I didn't want to wait for the disc to ship to me, and also had a modded WII, so I just made a pirated burned copy of the Netflix disc to use! Those were good times.
Because a crapload of people in Brazil had a PS2 and the taxes make it hard to buy modern console there. If I'm mot mistaken Factor 5 actually made the PS2 Netflix software. Yes the Rouge Squadron Factor 5. Those guys were tech genius'.
@@ChaseMC215 no, not at all, it's just that ps2s are wildly more available due to the affordability, it's more about the economy crisis fault then we not wanting to carry on.
@@bernardopkmDP178 They have Tec Toy, they release Sega stuff legally in Brazil, they even developed a port of Duke Nukem 3D on the Genesis. So why not have them continue the PS2 in Brazil?
@@AlexRN What I love is all the Nintendo apologists making endless excuses for it. Someone in this very comments section said it would be a "gimmick" because you need Wi-Fi to use it. I mean REALLY!! it's not like Nintendo is synonymous with gimmicky with its consoles at this point or anything.
14:20 - Actually, it was Netflix that finally pulled the plug, though with Nintendo pulling the Wii Shop offline certainly moved things along. The Netflix Wii channel was more or less a specially coded browser that accessed a specific version of the Netflix storefront (a lot of streaming apps do this). Netflix decided with the Wii Shop going offline (and therefore no one really being able to get it anymore) it was a good time to drop support for their Wii app as well.
The Wii U needs no justification. People might piss on it, but it's got a great game library and a small enough form factor to make sense as a secondary system. Between me, my nieces and nephew, and my dad, my Wii U is the most played console in my household.
@@copas2096 or you could just own a legit GameCube instead of buying a werid thing for the Wii-U. I currently own both a GameCube and a Wii-U. I currently even own a PS2, a regular 2DS, a 2DS XL, a DS Lite, and the Nintendo Switch.
@@gamercadance8720 I would do that if the GameCube wasn't so rare and the games expensive in my country. If I find a cheap GameCube and games I might buy it because the lack of analog inputs on the wii u and the button layout ruin the experience
“...and it keeps getting better! Best game on Wii!!” I still remember getting butthurt over your HVGN Wii Netflix video as a Wii-only owner at the time. I broke down and got a PS3 and 360 soon after. I know Derek makes fun of them, but those old HVGN represent a kind of Golden Age of RUclips retro gaming content. Good times.
Your ISP can't actually tell how many times you went to the Wikipedia page for Greg Hastings Paintball Max'd. They can tell that you visited the wikipedia.com domain, but everything beyond that is already encrypted via HTTPS.
When I was a RadioShack employee I was very stern with my girlfriend at the time that the zune was the future of music devices after giving her one forChristmas. I'm sure this is why radio shack is no longer in business because of employees like myself.
My greatest memory associated with Netflix on the Wii is my dad, who has no interest in video games, screwing around with the Wii pointer hand cursor on Netflix by moving it over the thumbnail for a movie with a guy’s face and saying “Hey look! The guy’s picking his nose!”
it wasn't at all. Netflix was smaller then blockbuster and blockbuster was doing the same thing so why would they spend millions on something they can do
@@mewstoise5505 ... that's my entire point. Blockbuster had an opportunity to buy a massively successful company before they were massively successful. The fact that they both did relatively the same thing is more reason to buy them. You've already got the infrastructure set up. As I'm sure you know, Blockbuster didn't exactly fair well in the end. Meanwhile...
I had the 80 GB Zune with a touch pad and a high def screen. Had a couple seasons of my favorite comedy show on it lol And I had the Zune subscription service. It was basically spotify before spotify. I miss it.
It's worth mentioning, BD-Live is an actual thing. It's in a lot of Blu-Ray discs, but it's pretty much pointless when you can just Google it and it's not much different. It gave you live-updated info about actors, did-ya-knows about the scene you're watching at the moment that you ask for it, and it could allow for dynamic trailers where the ones on-disc get replaced by trailers for more current films. Like, you could watch a Blu-Ray copy of Spider-Man 3 from 2007 (smooth reference there) and when BD-Live kicks in, instead of a trailer for Missionary Man on the disc, it'll give you a trailer for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, in a complete mind-bending paradox of an old movie telling you to pick up a new movie. How appropriate that Sony films have this feature as well, and there's still some Blu-Ray players that don't do BD-Live. Basically it was a way to lock extra features behind cloud services, and allow them to be lazy by not having to change the trailers included on the disc.
A tip for people who want Netflix on switch, you know the unofficial Android port? Download it to download Netflix. It works. By the way there's already Hulu and RUclips anyway you know.
Dude, as a former Flash developer I had to pause the video and take a deep breath when you mentioned Silverlight, a technology I had managed to forget about.
Back when data plans were limited I used a VCR to record Netflix from the Wii and bring the tapes to my dad. I'd also record movies so I'd have a copy before Netflix removed movies from the service. Old tech can be pretty useful sometimes!
Wait, If Netflix is trying to be on every device available then why is Hulu the only streaming service on the Switch? Does Nintendo have some sort of deal with them or something?
I knew the wii streamed Netflix until January because my sister was raging that she had to go buy some kind of streaming box for her tv. I couldn't believe she had used the wii all that time. I was impressed that the little old wii had more than given its price worth.
I feel like there’s some crazy stories from the Wii/360/PS3 generation that have yet to be unearthed. Such a weird, transforming time in terms of technology and the internet.
"Brazil, where Mortal Kombat 3 is on the Master System, and Netflix is on the PS2." The gaming industry in Brazil sounds like it would make for a really great Punching Weight video.
The NordVPN is is somewhat misleading. YES, ISPs can see which sites you visit but once on a site, most of them use encrypted protocols that prevent individuals in the middle from knowing which specific pages you request.
I’m 13 and I still remember going to Blockbuster and getting DVDs from Netflix. We still have VHSs form Blockbuster when they shut down and we stole a DVD or two form Netflix.
Random tangent: Wasn't too surprised to hear the Sims shopping music as a backing track early in the video, but had to pause and comment about the use of Tomba! around the midpoint. That's a deep dive and I love it!
I had both an HD DVD player for my 360, and 2 different versions of the Zune. Both were quality products...the zune had video playback before the iPod...and the hd dvd player took the strain off your 360's drive if you watched a lot of movies, since it played dvds too.
The PS2 is one of the few systems where a disc makes sense because that system doesn't have apps also I wonder if they could get streaming on a GameCube through the GameCube ethernet adapter or if that was only for Lan play? Wait a minute didn't the Dreamcast also have internet access imagine Netflix on there
As someone who owned 4 iPods, the Zune Touch is a genuinely fantastic piece of hardware at an incredibly reasonable price point, and even the normal Zunes were arguably better designed than Apple's contemporaneous offerings. The major upside of going with Apple was their overwhelming grip on music purchasing and management (plus innovations in other media like "inventing" podcasts).
I liked the ipods UI(user interface)more and my uncle's zune didn't last long making me question their durability. These days I use a sony ps vita slim for my portable gaming,video,music needs
I really like the background music in this video Dorrick, makes for a great watch. Whoever does the editing is doing a great job, and I like your presentering too.
Huh. As someone who's been a Wii owner since basically the launch date in 2006, even I never heard of this. But then again, we didn't know a great deal about Netflix then. It's interesting to see how Netflix has grown. I still think Blockbuster's worst business decision was thinking that Netflix would never succeed, and that streaming would never kick off. Lmao.
We had the HD DVD add-on in our house. (My brother's. not mine.) I think it's still around, sitting in a box somewhere. It was fun while it was around. My brother kept expecting HDDVD to win the format war just because the name had the tie-in to DVD, giving it better name recognition. What he didn't count on was the power that Blu-Ray had for advertising that their discs could hold more data, leading everyone to think that it was the better format.
Yo, still have and use a Zune. It was a surprisingly good mp3 player. It just had Microsoft abandonment issues, had they put some money into it, it could have fought the iTunes marketplace.
Perfect timing! I just watched The Dark Knight on Netflix last night, so I’m more than ready to relive my life from 10 years ago. Back during a time when I didn’t understand why my SD Wii looked like crap on my HD TV....
Man does this take me back. I remember my one friend had the Wii Netflix disk and I thought it was the coolest thing. And I knew exactly one person with the HD-DVD player for the 360. On his flat screen 720p crt...it looked like the future. Edit: I still have my 30 gig Zune, no regrets getting that over the iPod
I was an early adopter of HD DVD and had one of those add-on drives. Back in 2006-2007 when both formats were introduced, HD DVD was more affordable, feature complete and performed really well, unlike Blu-ray which was a bloated mess of a standard that technology hadn't caught up to yet. HD DVD made more sense to me at the time with my student budget. Blu-ray is fine now and it's probably for the best that it won the format war, but HD DVD was a lot better than people generally remember.
I sincerely miss watching Netflix with friends on Xbox 360. I had a fucking blast with my friends back in the day. We would all vote for a movie or a show and all chill together in a party. Those were the good old days.
I haven't watched the video yet, but that Netflix Wii disk was the first way I ever streamed stuff from Netflix, and I remember it being crazy at the time.
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Still can’t believe that Sony claimed the PS3 Netflix disc made special use of Blu-ray even though they put a disc out on the PLAYSTATION TWO in Brazil.
Dude i didn't even know i had subed
To be honest, i`ve never see Netflix disk in Russia, but thanks for a video!
@@TiberiumMedia I am in Australia whats that point
BIG
BLACK
"Footage by some dumb nerd on youtube, I dunno"
As if you're any smarter now :P
Just a reminder: Netflix is somehow on the PS2, but not the Switch.
Netflix probably doesn’t care about the Switch at this point. They only care about greenlighting more crap originals to overweight the upcoming losses of The Office and Friends.
@@MysteryMii More like Nintendo doesn't care about Netflix at this point. As much as these guys are trying to credit Wii for Netflix's success, the PS3 was the more popular system. With the XBL Gold paywall holding back the 360.
@@Bobby90 [Citation Needed] Netflix has had years to go ahead and develop an app for the Switch. Nintendo's not stopping them at all, unless you want to go into some conspiracy stuff between Nintendo and Hulu; I'd rather not.
Bobby90 I'm sorry, but *_what!?_* On what planet was the PS3 more popular than the Wii? The Wii sold over 100 million units, and while the PS3 sold pretty well too, it didn't sell quite that many.
True but it is weird Nintendo has showcased games in their Directs this year based on Netflix shows, Stranger Things on the Nindies Showcase and Dark Crystal at E3
When I was in college back when Wii streaming became a thing, I noticed a TON of students would use the Wii as a streaming device. You'd go to a house party for the girl's soccer team and while they didn't have an Xbox or a PS3, they had a Wii in the living room that was dedicated to exactly two things: Netflix and Mario Kart.
It was sensible, too. Most content at that point was DVD quality at 480p, many dorm TVs were only 720p max, and the Wii was dirt cheap. So if you're a student and broke as all hell, the Wii was a great alternative to the cable box considering you probably had an internet bill anyway to get your homework done.
PS2: *has Netflix*
Switch: Bruh
Switch has Hulu
Everyone else: Really same!
Switch has no Videoplayer so Netflix would not work
Yoshidude Bleung HAH RUclips and the Upcoming Disney+?
Edit 9/17/20: Disney+ hasn’t come to Switch yet as it was said to be =(
Calebfire10 ...PLUS ULTRA!
B R U H
Netflix on a microwave! Now you are just being silly.
Now if you don't mind, I am going to continue watching RUclips on my smart fridge
Ill be watching on my lamp
@@auroradiamondheart8920 your watching on a lamp pffff my dog has better res
@@Jayden3649 HA I use my rat to watch RUclips and cockroach for gaming
@@nubzps4592 whoosh
@@Jayden3649 What was the whoosh?
"Reggie Fils-Aime, then president of Nintendo of America"
Oof, I felt that.
I can't believe Reggie was usurped by Bowser himself
*OOF*
Who would have thought Bowser was such a good president.
#KingKoopa
I love Reggie. All I know about Bowser as of yet is his awesome name. Those are some big shoes to fill.
Putting Netflix on the Wii was great for Nintendo. Alot of people I knew back in the day used the Wii as a Netflix box when the novelty of Wii Sports wore off. Netflix probably kept the thing from flooding pawn shops, Gamestops and thrift stores.
Pretty sure 80% of Wii households still have it at all for the fact it streams Netflix. How many times can somebody play Mario Party before you want to chuck the whole thing out of an open window
Joseph Kroll my niece still uses her family Wii to watch Netflix
Honestly knew so many people who uses their Wii for Netflix machines well in to 2017-2018 that it shocked me. Considering a fire stick is what, $50? Definitely probably the main use for the Wii console in the second half of this decade.
@@BeesonsCars why shouldn't they? If you could stream Netflix at home via some old Wii with $50 in your pocket OR buy a Fire stick and turn the Wii into a paperweight instantly to have $0.00 left in your pockets which would you do?
M Scuba not anymore they don’t. Netflix streaming for Wii was nixed in January.
I *need* the PS2 Netflix disc. 😂
It's so unusual and quirky.
What's even weirder is that the PSP had an unofficial RUclips client, but Netflix didn't come to it, although having the streaming capabilities.
Like, even Sony and Google themselves skipped the PSP for whatever reason.
So BD Live was actually a real thing. It had nothing to do with making the movies work. Instead, it dealt with features that Blu-Ray players that could connect to the internet could use, such as extra internet content (images, video), polls, or live chats with cast/crew (though the last is rare). Normally, you'd have to have the actual Blu-Ray disc to have access to these things in the first place, but Sony and Netflix enabled viewers through Netflix to have those features as well. It was all a gimmick to push Blu-Ray content as Sony was wary of losing the format war even to Netflix.
I heard that BDlive was also used to get current advertisements to play when you insert discs, instead of being stuck with outdated ads live DVDs.
@@zombiedude347 Exactly!!!
Remember when Netflix allowed users to rate movies/shows
Till they went sjw !
@Mojave they got rid of the star rating after one of the female comics complained about the star rating system because she said it was trolls that gave her a bad rating not her shit comedy! Netflix is left leaning now they have no ratings at all just 👍👎that's it !
@@christopherlastname7638 Amy Schumer being shitty and Netflix wanting to cover isnt leftist my friend. Its just hilarious.
Yeah I miss the reviews system. While most reviews were garbage on Netflix, I know how to sift through them and find reviews that actually provide some insight or proper criticism.
Now I typically have to go elsewhere to look up what I'm getting into with a new show or movie I've never heard about, especially in anything released more recently.
me:OMG. Gumball:Gumball entered th CAFETIREA!!!!
I find it odd Netflix isn’t on Switch even though for some reason Nintendo Directs this year feature games based on Netflix shows, Dark Crystal and Stranger Thing
Meanwhile it’s already confirmed Disney+ is already coming to Switch
Not mutually exclusive, but you probably knew that already.
Is Disney+ confirmed? I think they said they are interested in being on the Switch (and other consoles and platforms) but I don't think it was really "confirmed".
Most TVs now have a Netflix app. On the go, you need wifi, so why not just use your phone which can use wifi or data. I think Netflix on the Switch would be a gimmick.
Federico Guzmán I believe it was confirmed during their big investor meeting talking about Switch
@@thatziggs4062 The 3DS had Netflix so...
Still waiting for that gaming in brazil episode/show
Totally looking forward to that
there was a short video about gaming in brazil I watched a few years ago, but i cant find it again, so these guys covering it would be awesome
Oh hi quote
Também.
Check out Cloth Map’s video on the topic!
I'm at work now and should not be watching this, but screw it! As a Brazilian, I need to see what's the deal with that ps2 disc, never heard of it until now!
Get back to fucking work🤧!!
Does it still work on PS2?
@@NovaPrima from what I heard, no, but people can use modded ps2 and whatnot to make it work. This also works with the Wii and maybe the ps3.
You never fail to impress with the insanity you research. I’m losing my mind over here.
This channel is super underrated. You guys should have multiple millions of subscribers for the quality of content you put out. And Past Mortem is one of my favorite segments, just behind Punching Weight. ;)
Bring back theLIKECOMMENTSUBSCRIBEshow!
I'm glad you did a video on this. Back when it was required, I didn't want to wait for the disc to ship to me, and also had a modded WII, so I just made a pirated burned copy of the Netflix disc to use!
Those were good times.
Seeing that old 360 dashboard took me back a bit.
Cool to hear the backstory on this, definitely nice to see how long Netflix supported the Wii!
Better question, why did Brazil have Netflix on PS2?
Because a crapload of people in Brazil had a PS2 and the taxes make it hard to buy modern console there. If I'm mot mistaken Factor 5 actually made the PS2 Netflix software. Yes the Rouge Squadron Factor 5. Those guys were tech genius'.
@@abletothink Turrican devs? WTF.
@@bernardopkmDP178
Or, basicly..... Brazil doesn't know when to give up ob stuff, right?
@@ChaseMC215 no, not at all, it's just that ps2s are wildly more available due to the affordability, it's more about the economy crisis fault then we not wanting to carry on.
@@bernardopkmDP178
They have Tec Toy, they release Sega stuff legally in Brazil, they even developed a port of Duke Nukem 3D on the Genesis. So why not have them continue the PS2 in Brazil?
Wow, it's more impressive that Brazil had Netflix on the PS2. 😂
... I kinda want that PS2 disc now...
And the Wii, and the Vita..... but not on Switch. Pathetic.
@@AlexRN
What I love is all the Nintendo apologists making endless excuses for it.
Someone in this very comments section said it would be a "gimmick" because you need Wi-Fi to use it.
I mean REALLY!! it's not like Nintendo is synonymous with gimmicky with its consoles at this point or anything.
John Doe It’s not like it’s Nintendo's fault anyway, Nintendo doesn’t own Netflix or anything, after all Hulu and RUclips are on the Switch
hahaha i’m Brazilian but don’t have ps2 hahaha
Man this takes me back to when every anime was on Netflix and we watched it on the Wii
This is for you Spice and Wolf 😢
14:20 - Actually, it was Netflix that finally pulled the plug, though with Nintendo pulling the Wii Shop offline certainly moved things along. The Netflix Wii channel was more or less a specially coded browser that accessed a specific version of the Netflix storefront (a lot of streaming apps do this). Netflix decided with the Wii Shop going offline (and therefore no one really being able to get it anymore) it was a good time to drop support for their Wii app as well.
Makes sense
I watch Netflix through my WiiU... gotta justify it still existing on my desk
The Wii U needs no justification. People might piss on it, but it's got a great game library and a small enough form factor to make sense as a secondary system. Between me, my nieces and nephew, and my dad, my Wii U is the most played console in my household.
It makes a good homebrew machine if you're into that sort of thing.
@@Delta225 it's also a great way of playing gamecube games with homebrew
@@copas2096 or you could just own a legit GameCube instead of buying a werid thing for the Wii-U. I currently own both a GameCube and a Wii-U. I currently even own a PS2, a regular 2DS, a 2DS XL, a DS Lite, and the Nintendo Switch.
@@gamercadance8720 I would do that if the GameCube wasn't so rare and the games expensive in my country. If I find a cheap GameCube and games I might buy it because the lack of analog inputs on the wii u and the button layout ruin the experience
An exploding Zaku II is EXACTLY how I picture Blockbuster as a company.
Honestly as bad they crashed, multiple exploding Leos might be a better fit.
“...and it keeps getting better! Best game on Wii!!” I still remember getting butthurt over your HVGN Wii Netflix video as a Wii-only owner at the time. I broke down and got a PS3 and 360 soon after.
I know Derek makes fun of them, but those old HVGN represent a kind of Golden Age of RUclips retro gaming content. Good times.
I still love em
So I realize he had an old show where he was happy instead of angry
But I'm incapable of reading that as anything other than Hangry Video Game Nerd
@@CasaiAgicap happy video game nerd isn't angry video game nerd. More of a parody/tribute
PC just sitting here like, we've had it the entire time
no.
Oh man, I had a Zune HD
Edit: And that Phantasy Star Online music. Stop making me feel the nostalgia.
Immediate thumbs up for that sexy thumbnail! :D
Holy shit, the OSW boys!! I didn't know y'all liked SSFF
@@mariopikaman1 lol the SSFF tee is one of like 6 tees in my wardrobe! It's a beaut ➕🔥🔥
Your ISP can't actually tell how many times you went to the Wikipedia page for Greg Hastings Paintball Max'd. They can tell that you visited the wikipedia.com domain, but everything beyond that is already encrypted via HTTPS.
Left 4 Dead 2 wasn’t an 360 exclusive 😅, it was released on Steam because... well you know, it’s a Valve game. But it was the only console port
When I was a RadioShack employee I was very stern with my girlfriend at the time that the zune was the future of music devices after giving her one forChristmas. I'm sure this is why radio shack is no longer in business because of employees like myself.
And most likely why she is no longer your girlfriend. XD
BD-Live was basically just the online connection features that some Blu-rays had.
I have a few disc like that, and had to get a WiFi extender for my Philips Blu-Ray player to access them.
So, I guess NODs had a similar thing that made the Netflix Wii disc possible?
My greatest memory associated with Netflix on the Wii is my dad, who has no interest in video games, screwing around with the Wii pointer hand cursor on Netflix by moving it over the thumbnail for a movie with a guy’s face and saying “Hey look! The guy’s picking his nose!”
Pretty sure Netflix just dropped on the Wii Shop Channel one day and that was it for us in Europe.
Yeah, it did, I still have the (non functional) app on my Wii.
Blockbuster Video declining to buy Netflix might be one of the worst business moves in recent history. That's hilarious.
it wasn't at all. Netflix was smaller then blockbuster and blockbuster was doing the same thing so why would they spend millions on something they can do
@@mewstoise5505 ... that's my entire point. Blockbuster had an opportunity to buy a massively successful company before they were massively successful. The fact that they both did relatively the same thing is more reason to buy them. You've already got the infrastructure set up.
As I'm sure you know, Blockbuster didn't exactly fair well in the end. Meanwhile...
@@naota3k yeah, hindsight and all... they couldn't know. also why would they bother buying a small competitor like that?
@referral madness that's my point, kinda. why bother?
@Music Of The Arts1234567890a lmao
Your like an older version of Scott The Woz and I like that
2:47 RIP Kevin Butler of Sony
11:24 Speaking of Official Kevin...
Love your channel and your little documentaries about video games. Greetings from Brazil.
I had the 80 GB Zune with a touch pad and a high def screen. Had a couple seasons of my favorite comedy show on it lol
And I had the Zune subscription service. It was basically spotify before spotify. I miss it.
Susan Panico said Gamer Rights.
Great video! It's always interesting seeing companies trying to fit their products in places in the strangest ways.
It's worth mentioning, BD-Live is an actual thing. It's in a lot of Blu-Ray discs, but it's pretty much pointless when you can just Google it and it's not much different. It gave you live-updated info about actors, did-ya-knows about the scene you're watching at the moment that you ask for it, and it could allow for dynamic trailers where the ones on-disc get replaced by trailers for more current films. Like, you could watch a Blu-Ray copy of Spider-Man 3 from 2007 (smooth reference there) and when BD-Live kicks in, instead of a trailer for Missionary Man on the disc, it'll give you a trailer for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, in a complete mind-bending paradox of an old movie telling you to pick up a new movie. How appropriate that Sony films have this feature as well, and there's still some Blu-Ray players that don't do BD-Live.
Basically it was a way to lock extra features behind cloud services, and allow them to be lazy by not having to change the trailers included on the disc.
I had this disk! It stopped working when the software got released, but it was fun
I remember having that disk, my family used it forever probably even longer than it was useful haha. Such a throwback.
A tip for people who want Netflix on switch, you know the unofficial Android port? Download it to download Netflix. It works. By the way there's already Hulu and RUclips anyway you know.
Dude, as a former Flash developer I had to pause the video and take a deep breath when you mentioned Silverlight, a technology I had managed to forget about.
Probably dating myself, but I still listen to my zune hd on practically a daily basis.
Netflix on Wii using component cables... 480p still looked quite nice. Used it often.
Tomba AND Mystical Ninja 2 Music?
Editor, I love you.
So much.
AND PSO music! :D
Back when data plans were limited I used a VCR to record Netflix from the Wii and bring the tapes to my dad. I'd also record movies so I'd have a copy before Netflix removed movies from the service. Old tech can be pretty useful sometimes!
Wait, If Netflix is trying to be on every device available then why is Hulu the only streaming service on the Switch? Does Nintendo have some sort of deal with them or something?
I knew the wii streamed Netflix until January because my sister was raging that she had to go buy some kind of streaming box for her tv. I couldn't believe she had used the wii all that time. I was impressed that the little old wii had more than given its price worth.
Netflix: makes disk
Me: you have become the one thing you swore to destroy.
"On everything and everywhere"
Spitefully looks to his Switch
@11:30 “PS3 Finally Wins a Month” is a hilarious and kinda sad headline 😂
This whole situation with the dvd was crazy to learn about. Thanks for the great vid!
I was a PS fanboy but I was bout that Zune life! 10/10 would buy again.
I feel like there’s some crazy stories from the Wii/360/PS3 generation that have yet to be unearthed. Such a weird, transforming time in terms of technology and the internet.
10:19
"via Wi-Fi or -Ethernet- Internet"
Ah yes, how could I forget that Wi-Fi isn't the Internet
"Brazil, where Mortal Kombat 3 is on the Master System, and Netflix is on the PS2." The gaming industry in Brazil sounds like it would make for a really great Punching Weight video.
Can't let anyone see that you searched greg hastings paintball for Gba. Your personal FBI agent would freak.
Duh, when they find out he's looking it up they're gonna come for him cause video games make people murderers!
@@thatziggs4062 Greg Hastings Paintball on GBA practically equals the best gun training there is
I still have my copy of the Netflix disc for the PlayStation 3, along with a myriad of AOL discs. Remember when that was a thing to get online.
I still have my ps3 netflix disc. Love it. Play it all the time.
The NordVPN is is somewhat misleading. YES, ISPs can see which sites you visit but once on a site, most of them use encrypted protocols that prevent individuals in the middle from knowing which specific pages you request.
Man remember when Microsoft had a user interface on console that made sense?
I’m 13 and I still remember going to Blockbuster and getting DVDs from Netflix. We still have VHSs form Blockbuster when they shut down and we stole a DVD or two form Netflix.
This is just makes the Switch media offerings more and more disappointing
At the time if writing this there is only Hulu and RUclips.
Pretty piss poor
Disney + is coming in November but yeah still pretty shit
Theres also nico nico and a comic reading app and a few more apps on it
9:40 Hears the "Wild West" theme from Final Fantasy VI and now I find myself listening to the entire soundtrack again. Thanks for that!
Thank you. I couldn't place the music and was suffering.
I have a Zune 30gb, 90 gb and the red 120 gb. Also the Halo Edition 30gb. Long live Zune!
Random tangent: Wasn't too surprised to hear the Sims shopping music as a backing track early in the video, but had to pause and comment about the use of Tomba! around the midpoint. That's a deep dive and I love it!
I was ALL about that Zune life. Squircle, baby!
Netflix on Wii had a pretty good user interface. Using the remote to navigate felt really natural.
PSO background music whaddup!!
I had both an HD DVD player for my 360, and 2 different versions of the Zune. Both were quality products...the zune had video playback before the iPod...and the hd dvd player took the strain off your 360's drive if you watched a lot of movies, since it played dvds too.
"Who has one of those?"
Me. I have all of those.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
@@heyhonpuds where do I post them?
They seriously need to add Parties to Netflix so you can watch movies with friends in sync.
Where was Netflix on the Master System?
Might work on the DC
The PS2 is one of the few systems where a disc makes sense because that system doesn't have apps also I wonder if they could get streaming on a GameCube through the GameCube ethernet adapter or if that was only for Lan play? Wait a minute didn't the Dreamcast also have internet access imagine Netflix on there
"content spewing juggernaut they are today"?
You do know that they're hurting for money and cancelled a bunch of shows, right?
As someone who owned 4 iPods, the Zune Touch is a genuinely fantastic piece of hardware at an incredibly reasonable price point, and even the normal Zunes were arguably better designed than Apple's contemporaneous offerings. The major upside of going with Apple was their overwhelming grip on music purchasing and management (plus innovations in other media like "inventing" podcasts).
I liked the ipods UI(user interface)more and my uncle's zune didn't last long making me question their durability. These days I use a sony ps vita slim for my portable gaming,video,music needs
NetFlix is losing subs?!... [looks at Witcher series]... well... maybe I have an idea why
I want to see Netflix on the Sega CD, imagine streaming stuff with Blast Processing!
*netflix* will die in 2020 when The Office getting removed lol :L
It’s not been on the UK Netflix for years 😭
@@scottatkinson9415 If only these shows could still be found on the internet...
I really like the background music in this video Dorrick, makes for a great watch. Whoever does the editing is doing a great job, and I like your presentering too.
Huh. As someone who's been a Wii owner since basically the launch date in 2006, even I never heard of this. But then again, we didn't know a great deal about Netflix then. It's interesting to see how Netflix has grown. I still think Blockbuster's worst business decision was thinking that Netflix would never succeed, and that streaming would never kick off. Lmao.
We had the HD DVD add-on in our house. (My brother's. not mine.) I think it's still around, sitting in a box somewhere. It was fun while it was around.
My brother kept expecting HDDVD to win the format war just because the name had the tie-in to DVD, giving it better name recognition.
What he didn't count on was the power that Blu-Ray had for advertising that their discs could hold more data, leading everyone to think that it was the better format.
*sees earthbound poster
Me:I like this guy
I’m not the only one who misses HVGN. Bring back them Halloween jokes! 😁
Remember the Max recommendation thing on PS3? I feel like I was the only one who used it.
My cousins were legit watching Netflix on their wii until January 2019 and they were forced to get a rocky after that lol
The Netflix disc for the Wii was what made me switch from Blockbuster's rental service to Netflix's.
That HVGN clip send me back, man
Yo, still have and use a Zune. It was a surprisingly good mp3 player. It just had Microsoft abandonment issues, had they put some money into it, it could have fought the iTunes marketplace.
I remember using that disc constantly as a kid. The fam watched Doctor Who and Phineas and Ferb almost every night.
Perfect timing! I just watched The Dark Knight on Netflix last night, so I’m more than ready to relive my life from 10 years ago. Back during a time when I didn’t understand why my SD Wii looked like crap on my HD TV....
I remember having Netflix disks come in those envelope as a kid. Fun times.
What was crazier, how long it took the Wii and PS3 to stream without a disc OR how long Netflix was behind a paywall on Xbox?
Man does this take me back. I remember my one friend had the Wii Netflix disk and I thought it was the coolest thing. And I knew exactly one person with the HD-DVD player for the 360. On his flat screen 720p crt...it looked like the future.
Edit: I still have my 30 gig Zune, no regrets getting that over the iPod
I was an early adopter of HD DVD and had one of those add-on drives. Back in 2006-2007 when both formats were introduced, HD DVD was more affordable, feature complete and performed really well, unlike Blu-ray which was a bloated mess of a standard that technology hadn't caught up to yet. HD DVD made more sense to me at the time with my student budget. Blu-ray is fine now and it's probably for the best that it won the format war, but HD DVD was a lot better than people generally remember.
Astfgl I remembered it looking great
The Kinect was a great way to yell at Netflix
Man talking about Xbox 360 and ps3 is very nostalgic
I sincerely miss watching Netflix with friends on Xbox 360. I had a fucking blast with my friends back in the day. We would all vote for a movie or a show and all chill together in a party. Those were the good old days.
I haven't watched the video yet, but that Netflix Wii disk was the first way I ever streamed stuff from Netflix, and I remember it being crazy at the time.