It has been confirmed by Netflix that they will now be streaming their videos to the Nintendo Wii. Wii owners who have a broadband connection and a Netflix subscription that costs at least $9 a month will be able to watch those programs with no extra charge. Nintendo and Netflix, wouldn’t give an exact launch date for the service but expect the product to be ready soon. Thats pretty sweet, except that the Wii isn’t HD therefore, the streams won’t be. The PS3 is already streaming Video with Netflix, and yes it is HD. Xbox360 players can also use the streaming service, but they must be Xbox “Gold” customers.

You can see where this is going, the Roku Netflix player is pretty awesome.

Goodbye Movie Stores!

I think the days of the movie store like Family Video, Movie Stop, and Blockbuster (R.I.P), have seen their final days. Even purchasing films are going to become a thing of the past, Imagine the Roku player with a 1TB Hard drive in it. No more having to worry about scratched up DVD’s or Blueray’s. If you can just store the video inside the movie library and not have to fiddle around finding the disk and putting it in the player, thats pretty cool.

In reality, I don’t thing Netflix Streaming to the Wii, will mean all that much. But I think that this is just another step down the path.