Netflix has achieved the impossible and have got the service up and running on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The idea came about during the Netflix “hack day” where the developers are given free reign to do what they like with the streaming service. The company managed to get a slightly pixelated version of the popular House of Cards, which you can view in the video above.
Netflix Managed To Get ‘House of Cards’ Running On A NES
tloz confirmed
I’ve literally been watching House of Cards for the past 2 hours.
NES=<3
There you have the proof…
NES is as powerful as a PS2, which makes the Wii U as powerful as a Ion Core…
*an…
I hope this is satirical…
Nope, he really is an idiot.
To be brutally honest, “idiot” is a little generous.
How adorable, the cattle is trying to insult me…
CATTLE COMMANDER!!!
ALL HAIL! C C!!!
Wii U gets way too much hate that it doesn’t deserve…
Lol, it’s as they say, Netflix is on everything.
Now imagine, Netflix on Atari 2600…XD
We are trying to forget such extinct ancient abominations…
I’m just saying that it sounds like a hilarious thing.
Also, I think you are confusing it for the 5200, now that was what many would call, an abomination…
Nice
Ha! No way! It looks a little crappier than I imagined… (8-bit HoC http://youtu.be/IuIGTkheK5w)
Title is a bit misleading
This could actually be pushed further. The NES had a color palette of something like 48 different colors with the ability to show 25 colors per scan line. They said the show was being shown in 2-bit or 4 colors which is the amount of colors you can have in a single 8×8 or 8×16 sprite. By using sprites with different pallettes as well as drawing to the background layer, they could potential get it shown in 48 colors.
NES >>> Wii U
Slightly Pixelated?
One of the devs has commented on the Engadget news post about this. The cartridge contains cached House of Cards content and has no WiFi-chip or anything.
He doesn’t say what the cache looks like, but my guess is that it’s tile data. He does say they didn’t use palette swapping, which is probably to allow as much memory as possible for the cache. I doubt the episode runs longer than the YouTube video showed.
This makes for a fun video and gains Netflix some attention and nerd love, but this isn’t a NES running Netflix. It’s about the same as when you’d print out a bunch of video frames and make a flipbook with those.
*slightly* pixelated? ;)
Big deal. Waiting for Orange is the New Black season 3. I hope Netflix added more than 13 episodes which is stupid and didn’t think of doubling it from season 2.
Looks cool, makes we wonder what results they would get by doing this on the SNES.
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