Youtube in my TV with Wii

The last 2-4 years Greek houses have fast Internet connection. The prizes are tolerable and most of us realize that the Web is a service that everybody should experience and have in the everyday life. On the other hand the time someone spends in front of the television is shrinking. One argument for the former statement is the fact that the quality of the media, I can talk for the Greek TV/press only, that is being delivered via the television or the printed press is not anticipating the average viewer/reader. Most of the Greeks can talk and understand English and this important fact in conjunction with the enlargement of the new Web Media and the fast internet connections led us to solutions like youtube, vimeo and various services that provide online media.

alexa.com provides us with a list of the top visited urls as far as it regards the Greek audience. At the first place is Google, at the second Facebook and third comes youtube.com. Youtube comes third, however the 3rd place among millions of pages is a serious thing. Greeks, and most nations – a few days ago youtube.com announced that it receives 1 billion (billion with a B) request per day-, spend a serious portion of their active Internet time watching videos at youtube. This is reasonable: You had a bad day, missed a couple of hours due to traffic jam and you didn’t watch your favorite team winning the critical game? Don’t worry it is already uploaded to youtube or some other video hosting service.

Imagine that you are sitting on your sofa or watching some TV before you sleep at night and number 1 button of your remote TV control is for a hypothetical YouTube channel. Are you pressing the button or not? Most of us will prefer it. For two reasons:

1. Local TV media do not invest. They do not have the power to surprise the TV viewer. They afraid to risk. They are establishment. Local media are businesses that are moving too slow. They don’t evolve. Bottom line: We are bored with the same TV shows.
2. YouTube has a vast amount of videos. If you want to see a documentary for the Forbidden City because you intend to visit China, YouTube is the right place. You are one click away. Online media services like this, give you the opportunity or even the hope that you can find a response to your “media request” in no time.

No more pshycology. Nugh said. In a few bullets I will present you the way to turn your TV to a YouTube station using your Wii console.

1. prerequisites: Wii Console and Wireless Internet Access.  You need to make your Wii capable of connection to the Web. This is easy and you can check either your Wii manuals or numerous of web pages for step by step instructions.
2. create an account at club.nintendo.com. Do it with your internet browser it is free and easy. With your club nintendo account you can access areas at their web site in order to buy games, access several channels and e-facilities. These goodies can be bought with your credit card. A short comment here: The youtube/tv service was not free about a year ago. Nintendo sold this service for  a few bucks (worth spending), however it was not free. Today is free.  This is correct decision and I don’t want to comment on that right now.
3. From your Wii console go to the Shop Channel. This selection will connect you to Nintendo’s site and from there you will search for the Internet Channel. Confirm that you want to download it, wait a minute and an Opera browser will be installed at your Wii console for free. Nintendo will responde with “OK”.
4. From the Wii Main Menu navigate to your new Internet channel and access web sites typing with Wii’s remote control your favorite URLs, at the address bar.
5. In order to watch YouTube you need to type the address www.youtube.com/tv
6. You can customize your preferences. It is quite easy. You can even login with your youtube account in order to watch your playlists, if any.

Those steps are adequate to bring this service at your sofa. Bottom line: Don’t forget that you just installed an Internet browser at your Wii Console. Of course you can navigate to your favorite sites, read email, update your calendar, read your feeds, send tweets via your twitter.com account.