Nintendo has announced in Japan that a "TV Program Schedule Channel" is in the works for Wii. It will feature a search facility, where you can search for your favorite shows or channels. Not much is known about this channel other than it came on rather abruptly with no aforementioned details regarding it. This reporter hopes that this channel sees a release date outside of Japan, so that we can all search for our favorite shows?
The TV Program Schedule Channel is set for a spring 2008 release date in Japan.
Written By: Aaron H.
lol kindrik.
by the end of 2008 my Wii will be pimped.
will have to do somethign pretty special to be of much use i think, my topfiled pvr has an EPG and it searchs for programs like the simpsons and scrubs or whatever auomatically and auto stores them to the hard disk, wii wont do that so kind of whats the point?
could be useful to a few people i suppose save buying the tv guide, but by 2012 all of uk will have to go digital anyway and pretty much all uk digital recievers have bilt in epg of some kind.
I has a TV Guide next to my TV. Or there is the intrawebs.
Nice try Nintendo, but focus on giving us useful channels.
Better than nothing, plus it's something that old grannys will think is cool. And it's something the PS3 or 360 can't do. It's something..
Well techinically the 360 is supposed to have some sort of TV service coming in the near future. IPTV, I think it was. It sounded it more advanced than just some preview channel. This Wii channel doesn't sound that great in comparison.
I think that's because PS3 and 360 know they don't need to bother doing it.
So let me get this straight...I want to find out what's on tv tonight, even though most people have a good idea already when their fav shows are on. So I turn on the Wii, and go to a channel to do this. It seems cumbersome, and most people will go to their computer and do it much faster.
Maybe we should have this crack team of Nintendo geniuses stop work on this channel, and start helping with Mario Kart so we won't have to wait till Christmas to get it.
I just checked out your link and have to ask the question.....What Tandy computer did they make that screen from. I mean it says 2007, but dear lord it looks terrible.
Actually that comes through the TV ¬_¬
It's an analog signal. It's ugly as sin but it's handy for checkin news topics and sports and what's on TV and such
It's an analog signal.
It's actually one of the worlds first digital broadcast services. Every transmission TV signal (at least analogue channels) have 575 lines for picture but 625 lines are broadcast, this gap is mostly used for the vertical blank required for CRTs to function correctly. Well some bright spark in the 70s decided that they would use these unused lines for storing data. So they basically put all the latest news, sports updates and TV listings in a digital format and streamed all the data in the vertical blanks.
TVs have to have the necessary decoder in order to use the data but the great thing is that incompatible televisions just ignore it because it's during the vertical blank, which doesn't get displayed. Of course you can't have 999 full screens worth of text in 50 lines so they stream the data out a few pages at the time so you might get a bit of a delay between a page request and when you actually get it.
Teletext is being phased out in favour of digital interactive services that offer a more visually appealing experience.
UK Teletext will be extinct by 2012 on the day of the final analogue broadcast.
Oh god whatever...
Heh, I thought it was analogue too..
you all know it's because I like making people feel dumb :3
You all know it's because I like making people feel dumb. :3
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I frickkin' rule
You're the dumb one . I corrected your grammar and you continue to think that you like to make other people feel dumb, or should it be vice versa?
You added a capital letter >_>
the internet rarely uses sentences, therefore caps are non-necessary because there is no end to the sentence and blah blah, etc
