#290261 - 19/01/2007 22:10
Re: Wii
[Re: wfaulk]
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Some guy based a workout regimen on playing 30 minutes of Wii Sports a day and he lost 9 pounds over six weeks. I'm gonna have to get me one of these jobbers.
My wife just said I need to start exercizing. Think this will fly?
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#290262 - 21/01/2007 04:22
Re: Wii
[Re: tfabris]
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Maybe Sony sets detect which game console you've got plugged in, and degrade the signal if it's not a Playstation. :-)
I'm going to check your last few suggestions out soon (I've been so busy!), but I thought I'd mention that I don't think it's a problem with just this TV. Perhaps your theory here is correct, because I also tried it on a 2 year old 60" Sony set and it does the exact same thing. So yeah, I'm not sure it's the TV. Besides, I would be willing to bet that the video game mode probably just changes some brightness and contrast settings and not much more, but I'm willing to give it a shot.
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#290263 - 21/01/2007 14:24
Re: Wii
[Re: wfaulk]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 19/09/2002
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I really have to wonder if major online retailers (amazon, buy, etc) are in collusion with Wii poachers. I find it unreasonable that it's January 21st and Amazon still doesn't have any Wii online. Yet, they'll gladly help the scalpers sell theres for the (ever decreasing) price of $475.
Maybe Nintendo and the retailers should stop the shortage scam. It's going to lead to customer frustration, like mine, and turn people away. The wait is outlasting my buying impulse.
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#290264 - 21/01/2007 15:20
Re: Wii
[Re: FireFox31]
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Are they still unavailable ? I was expecting there to be some around this weekend it sounded like target and circuit city were hording them for their Sunday ads.
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#290265 - 21/01/2007 19:19
Re: Wii
[Re: FireFox31]
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Maybe Nintendo and the retailers should stop the shortage scam.
Shortage scam? Wiis don't appear out of thin air, I'm sure Nintendo is trying to make as many as they can to ship out. They not only have to build, assemble and test the units, they also have to wait on many external companies for components like IBM, AMD, and Mitsumi. They also chose to launch them in 4 major regions, so they have to try and supply all 4 of those areas with products.
Now some retailers are still stockpiling the small shipments they get for the Sunday ads, but they aren't getting enough to do much with. And if Amazon opened up sales of the Wii, well, they would have to have boxes to ship, or have a backorder list stretching from here till likely December.
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#290266 - 21/01/2007 21:45
Re: Wii
[Re: msaeger]
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The Circuit City here in SF had 28 this morning.
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#290267 - 22/01/2007 01:36
Re: Wii
[Re: drakino]
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They also chose to launch them in 4 major regions, so they have to try and supply all 4 of those areas with products.
I agree on all of those points, and I think this is the biggest. I don't believe the PS3 has even launched in Europe yet.
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#290268 - 23/01/2007 15:22
Re: Wii
[Re: FireFox31]
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Amazon still doesn't have any Wii online.
They do now here.
Probably won't last long though.
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#290269 - 23/01/2007 16:26
Re: Wii
[Re: drakino]
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pooh-bah
Registered: 12/02/2002
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Thanks! Got one, we'll see it if really makes it here tomorrow.
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#290270 - 23/01/2007 16:36
Re: Wii
[Re: matthew_k]
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Cool, glad someone grabbed one. Looks like they are sold out again. Someone here at work sent out this tracker, it's how they saw them pop on to Amazon this morning. http://www.nowinstock.net/wii/index.php
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#290271 - 23/01/2007 16:38
Re: Wii
[Re: drakino]
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There was a story on Joystiq about his sister's experience trying to get one this past weekend. It sounded like the demand was just as high as it was at launch! People were still waiting in long lines and getting turned down....
That's great!
I mean, not for the people who can't get a system, but I'm really excited that Nintendo can't make enough units to satisfy demand. Does anyone know where I can find launch numbers for previous consoles? I'd love to compare this to the initial Gamecube sales.
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#290272 - 23/01/2007 17:28
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[Re: Dignan]
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Heh, we ended up using the Target gift card to buy some other stuff we needed and I just got one slightly used on ebay. I got it for maybe $10 more than retail after shipping so I'm not complaining. Apparently the seller bought it, played Zelda, and then sold it. I got it in the mail yesterday and Wii Sports hadn't even been opened yet. The downside was that after playing with it for about two hours the batteries I pilfered out of my TV remote died and I didn't have any more in the house  .
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#290274 - 23/01/2007 19:10
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[Re: Dignan]
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Registered: 25/04/2000
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Does anyone see this?
How are you feeding the signal into the tv? Are you going through a receiver or directly into the tv?
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#290275 - 23/01/2007 19:17
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[Re: Dignan]
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I have eight of these wonderful things for my four Wiimotes, and USB hub to charge the ones I'm not using.
Of course, that is until they release good, Wii-specific rechargeable battery packs.
While the USB charging AA batteries are impressive, why not just buy some good NiMH batts and a charger? They'll last twice as long, and a good charger will keep your batteries in good working order.
Why would you want wii specific packs? AA's will be cheaper and are always getting better.
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#290277 - 23/01/2007 19:45
Re: Wii
[Re: Dignan]
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Registered: 12/02/2002
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just sit the controllers down in a cradle and leave it.
Ok, I'm always in favor of cradles, that makes sense.
I'm quite fond of my LaCrosse BC-9000. It's got some great testing and conditioning cycles, so you can test and see what the actual capacity of each cell it.
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#290278 - 23/01/2007 22:34
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[Re: Dignan]
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I have eight of these wonderful things
Holy cow, that's brilliant.
If I only had free USB ports on any of my systems, that'd be ultracool to own. :-)
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#290279 - 23/01/2007 23:12
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[Re: Dignan]
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While the USB charging AA batteries are impressive, why not just buy some good NiMH batts and a charger? They'll last twice as long, and a good charger will keep your batteries in good working order.
Because I've never had any luck with standard rechargeables. They either don't charge or they last for extremely short times. They've just never worked for me.
Thats all your using now. From looking at the site, the charger is just built into the battery, and it's a normal NiMH battery, though with less power then most due to the space taken up by the usb plug and charger. 1300mah is the spec their site says, where as the Energizer ones are up to 2500mah.
The cool thing I did notice fis that the USB ones will charge in a normal NiMH charger as well, and should charger faster then via USB.
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#290280 - 23/01/2007 23:24
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[Re: drakino]
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Registered: 12/11/2001
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In rechargeable cells, look for Maha (PowerEx brand) and Sanyo. Those are "the business." Maha chargers are also tops.
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#290281 - 24/01/2007 01:44
Re: Wii
[Re: tfabris]
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I have eight of these wonderful things
Holy cow, that's brilliant.
If I only had free USB ports on any of my systems, that'd be ultracool to own. :-)
Yeah, these things are amazing. My solution to the same problem, though, was to get one of these and just set it up with power in my home theater.
*edit*
Even more useful to me than the AA's would be the AAA's, which I could keep in my laptop bag and always have batteries for my portable bluetooth mouse.
Edited by Dignan (24/01/2007 01:45)
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#290282 - 24/01/2007 11:52
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[Re: Dignan]
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after playing with it for about two hours the batteries I pilfered out of my TV remote died and I didn't have any more in the house .
Yeah, it eats batteries like crazy.
We've had our Wii since the day after Thanksgiving, and the 2nd set of batteries are still on full charge. Given, my roommate was out of town for 10 days at the end of December, but that shouldn't create such a disparity in battery usage.
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#290283 - 24/01/2007 12:32
Re: Wii
[Re: Tim]
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Interesting. Regular batteries drained for me much faster. They lasted much longer than the rechargeable ones, of course, but they still didn't last for over 90 days like you're describing, and I've only had limited playing time with the system.
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#290285 - 24/01/2007 15:47
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[Re: Dignan]
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Link to the Past is out on the Virtual Console. I really need to pick up one of the snes type controllers. VC titles are still, for the most part, unimpressive.
There seem to be a bunch of sites popping up now that are designed for use with the Wii's Opera browswer -- lots of flash games and whatnot. Seems like a pretty cool idea but the games seemed pretty bleh.
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#290286 - 24/01/2007 15:53
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[Re: visuvius]
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Link to the Past is out on the Virtual Console. I really need to pick up one of the snes type controllers. VC titles are still, for the most part, unimpressive.
I'm incredibly psyched. I think I've bought this game in every form I can, but I'm going to buy it again. Like I said before, it's one of my top two favorite games of all time.
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There seem to be a bunch of sites popping up now that are designed for use with the Wii's Opera browswer -- lots of flash games and whatnot. Seems like a pretty cool idea but the games seemed pretty bleh.
Have you seen sofatube? It brings YouTube to the TV screen. Not too bad, either.
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#290287 - 24/01/2007 17:00
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[Re: Dignan]
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Have you seen sofatube? It brings YouTube to the TV screen. Not too bad, either.
Heh, yeah youtube was actually one of the first sites I tried on the Wii's browswer. I havn't seen softatube but will have to check that out tonight.
www.wiihear.com seems pretty cool too -- streaming music.
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#290288 - 27/01/2007 13:49
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[Re: visuvius]
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The news channel is now out for the Wii, and it seems to be pretty interesting, I like the way they map out the stories on the globe.
Also if you don't mind looking like an idiot, get Wario: Smooth Moves, it's a blast.
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#290289 - 27/01/2007 14:45
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[Re: BAKup]
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For the first version of the Wii News, it really rocks. I can think of a few small things I'd like to be able to do - like toggle on/off the map split screen and sort by locality, but it's still very usable.
I hope they enhance their photo viewer to be able to hit the net, including local shares and web sites like Flickr. I'm not so interested in using the web browser as a poor substitute for this. The image viewer can be made faster and easily supports rotation and enhancing effects like brightness (which I also wish you could make 'sticky' so it stays at the current setting as you continue to browse).
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#290290 - 29/01/2007 15:44
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[Re: BAKup]
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The news channel is now out for the Wii, and it seems to be pretty interesting, I like the way they map out the stories on the globe.
My roommate's girlfriend is in town, visiting for a week. She never played the Wii before and had me teach her how to play tennis after work on Thursday so she didn't 'look like an idiot' when he got home from work and they played. So I showed her how to play and she instantly started laughing - she fell in love with it.
The goofiest thing is, after Wii Sports (Tennis and Bowling mostly), her favorite 'games' are dorking around with the Weather and News channels. She was looking at how cold it was back at her home (Boston), which was -8F, saw that the South Pole was at +8F, and decided that she didn't mind the summers in Phoenix after all and was going to move back. She can literally spend an hour playing with the globe checking out the forecast for different cities, go and read the news, then back to the forecast.
Totally bizarre 
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I didn't, and because there is no "on/off" switch for the controllers, it just kept turning on because buttons were being pressed in the bag I was carrying.
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