[ale] Streaming video for Linux?

[George Carless]

Paul Cartwright (ale at pcartwright.com) wrote the following on Tue, 
Nov 30, 2010 at 08:30:00AM -0500:
> On 11/30/2010 07:48 AM, william witt wrote:
> > 2) the 360 requires an XBox Live Gold account $70 a year or so,
> > however streaming to the Wii does not require anything ither than a
> > connection (neither does the PS3 if I'm not mistaken.)  So there are
> > other options if you have other consoles.
> >
> 
> is this a good reason to get a Wii??
> can you subscribe to netflix & get movies over a Wii?
> ( thinking Xmas present here..:)
> I should probably talk to my son, since he HAS a Wii...

Wiis are a lot of fun, but you could get a Roku box (which will happily 
play Netflix) for a lot less money, so if you just need it for video 
that's the route I'd recommend.

Cheers,
George