DVD’s are playing again.

My DVD packed up a short while ago, it was one of those low cost supermarket deals from a few years ago, but it did the job very well.

However, being out of warranty and costing more to repair than buying another replacement, I looked online to see about running DVD’s on a recently purchased Wii, surprisingly it does not do this out of the box!

After a couple of false starts I finally managed to get this sorted using a free download, this tutorial and a £5.50 4GB SDHC memory card. I should point out that this ‘update’ refers to a Wii that is running version 4.2 of their ‘operating system’ if your Wii is ‘older’ then you will have to follow links in the instructions for earlier versions.

This adds another feature to the Wii and with the BBCi Player installed I can see this box becoming a vital part of any future entertainment centre and if rumours are true and the next version of the Wii will include a Blue Ray compatible DVD player, even more so.

A word of caution, there are a number of warnings on the Internet against carrying out ‘updates’ to the Wii box, which I suppose you have to take some view on. However, I checked quite a bit and in the end after reading quite a deal went ahead and for me it worked out okay. Don’t take this post as any kind of recommendation either way, at the end of the day, its your Wii and your choice.