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Netflix and Wii?
katie_saver
Posts: 138 Forumite
in Phones & TV
I don't have a smart TV but would like to watch Netflix on my TV screen as opposed to laptop. If I buy a Wii (any one) will I be able to do this? Do I need special cables? Have seen a Wii for sale in a shop for £30 so it seems the cheapest option...
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Yes, a Wii will do it (it can wirelessly connect to your router if your router's too far away for a LAN cable).
Mine's connected to the TV by component cables but there are also Wii to HDMI converters available at reasonable prices.Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Wii is SD. If you can stretch to a PS3, it'll give you HD Netflix, plus much more other stuff (a Blu Ray player!) that the Wii won't manage.0
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Chromecast streams Netflix.0
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the cheapest option would be to buy a cable for your laptop and plug that straight into the tv (of course this depends on your laptop and tv).
I use my laptop plugged in to the tv all the time to watch on demand tv.0 -
My TV isn't HD though so I probably can't get Netflix HD anyway, am I correct? and my laptop doesn't have an HDMI port...so I don't know which cable to get?0
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Does you TV have component (phono) input sockets or an unused scart socket (you could connect the component cables cable I mentioned to a scart converter).Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0
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That's correct you would need a HD TV top watch HD.
If you google you're laptop and "connect to TV via scart" it should help.0 -
we have a wii and its Netflix is pretty poor0
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So you're committing to never having an HDTV? What about when you upgrade? PS3 can plug into HDMI, component (red, blue, green plus red and white), SCART, composite (yellow, red, white) if your TV has any of those (in order of quality).0
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