J.U.A.N. Watching Netflix Streaming on my Wii

Right Now I am watching streaming movies on my Nintendo Wii. Do you care? Probably not. I just remembered that Random made a post awhile back about Netflix Instant Streaming on the Wii coming in the Spring.

Well, Spring came and went and the Summer of 2010 is almost gone as well. Finally I got my Wii setup for Netflix streaming. It was pretty easy, even though I had never hooked my Wii up to the internet.

I got my wife a Netflix Subscription for Christmas last year. We did the whole 1 disc at a time through the mail thing. We also streamed some movies on our computers, but the television screen is much better.

I read Random's post from last winter as well as the instructions on the Netflix site, and this seemed easy enough. I had to send away for a free setup disc from Netflix. It came the next day. I had to configure the internet connection for the Wii to obtain an access code to enter on the Netflix website.

Setting up the internet was very easy. I have the ATT Uverse triple play service. I have 6-7 different computers running off my wireless network, which is through their 2wire gateway. I just had to select that I was using a wireless network, and select my network from the options.

After my connection was recognized and setup, the Wii showed an activation key. I entered that on the Netflix site, and we were good to go.

The Wii remote works pretty well, and the menu options are decent. However, I find the best way to use the Wii is to go into your Netflix account on your computer and add movies to your instant queue. Then they are really easy to select on the Wii.

Well that's about it. Time to go watch Netflix movies on the Wii.

Netflix Instant Streaming On The Nintendo Wii This Spring

So it was announced. Netflix will be streaming on Nintendo Wii coming this Spring. After first appearing on the X Box, it then went to Playstation 3. And like the Playstation 3, Netflix users will get a free disc sent to them for their Wii as well. I recently got my Playstation 3 disc and have been using Netflix quite often on it. It works perfect, no problems, nothing. I love it.

As for the disc thing, its not big deal really. I mean its free. You dont pay any extra, so why complain? Besides rumor has it Playstation 3 is going to offer a subscription style service for their Playstation Network where users will no longer have to use the Netflix disc, as well as having a few other upgraded things that the free users wont have.

All in all, this is great news for Wii/Netflix users. I am in the middle of Sliders Season 1 on my Watch It Now list.

J.U.A.N.: The Punch Out Rap!

In celebration of the release of the pumped up remake of one of the most iconic video games of all time, Punch Out (for the Nintendo Wii,) on this edition of Jerks Up All Night, we are featuring this video from Break.com, which appears to be a group of guys getting together, dressing up as the Punch out characters, and producing a Punch Out Rap! Yep, Glass Joe, Von Kaiser, Bald Bull, Great Tiger, King Hippo, and more, they're all here, and they're all rapping, you just can't go wrong with that. Really when you have guys dressing up in these Punch Out gimmicks and then rapping, you really see how all these guys are much more like pro wrestling characters, complete with racial and ethnic stereotypes. And again, just like wrestling, you get all these characters together to sing in unison, then you know the endings going to end up in a knock down drag out...good times! It's just too bad Mike Tyson couldn't be brought back to the franchise, as it sure was fun to get through all these racial stereotype characters back in the day, only to get destroyed by Iron Mike...the biggest asshole on the game, who just smiled away as he killed you time after time. So for all of you who are up late partying with the new Wii Punch Out, I invite you to check out the video to really get the old school vibe going as you enjoy the new game.