Category: Deals

The BBC iPlayer Wii Channel has just gone live. It’s free up on the Wii Shop Channel. Mines downloading now, impressions later.

Nintendo and the BBC are going to be launching an iPlayer channel for the Wii on Thursday the 19th of November.

The web version of the iPlayer has been compatible with the Wii’s Opera web browser, but it had a pretty horrible interface, the video quality wasn’t great, and it was awkward to get it full screen.

In theory this channel could fix all of those problems. I guess we’ll see exactly how good it is when it comes out.

It will only be available to people in the UK. I assume that it detects where you are connecting from (like the PC version does).

You don’t need to have a TV license to use the iPlayer. I decided a while back not to bother renewing my TV license, since pretty much everything I want is put up on the iPlayer. Worth considering, and you could put all that money towards more lovely games.