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Personal notes

Blog comment from Ascii Adam

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A Live recording with Ascii Adam
Topic 1: Review of Toshiba Regza 32in TV

Description and features:

• Brilliant Blacks, Multiple input sources, Sound and Picture modes
  

Topic 2: Nintento Wii

Description and Basic features

Accessories

• Mad Cats 1100mAH USB battery charger, Classic Controllers, Wii Zapper

Home Screen Tour

• Current Game
• Mii Channel
• Photo Channel
• Wii Shop Channel ( Wiiware, Virtual console)
• Check Mii out
• Everyone votes channel
• Forecast Channel
• "Classic" Games
• Internet channel (Opera)

Additional Links /Comments not covered in Podcast recording

Games considering buying:

Wii Games

• Guitar Hero Dance Dance Revolution Super Smash Bros
  

Virtual Console Games (100 wii points = $1

• Toe Jam & Earl (800 points), 1080 Snowboarding (1000 points), Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball (800 points), Super Street Fighter II (800 points)

What could make the Wii Better?

There are a few things that would be nice to have on the wii.

More applications like the existing weather & news feed. Such as standalone YouTube (similar to appletv), standalone Flickr (similar to appletv) w/ ability to upload pictures to flickr, streaming stock charts, instant messanging (works with AIM, Gmail, Yahoo, & MSN), a Skype application and a app that plays podcasts & internet radio.

Ability to plug in an MP3 player and have the music play in the background.

Programmable alerts in the background (when a keyword is found in the news feed, when you get an email, when a new podcast or flickr picture is uploaded)

Ability to have videos play within the newsfeeds.

-just a few

Hack a Wii

ASCII ADAM
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Game Review

• Wii sports, Ghost Squad

Final Reactions

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