wraggster
March 12th, 2015, 20:27
http://o.aolcdn.com/hss/storage/midas/3909a8f55a07e2f80595f95f2151f703/201671995/netflix-nes.jpg (http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/10/netflix-on-an-nes/)
Netflix's experimental Hack Days (http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/27/netflix-hack-day-2014-projects/) often lead to wonderfully off-the-wall projects, but its latest might have produced the best example yet. Engineers Guy Cirino, Carenina Motion and Alex Wolfe have whipped up (http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/03/netflix-hack-day-winter-2015.html) DarNES, a hack that turns the original Nintendo Entertainment System into a Netflix playback machine. The '80s-era console is unchanged -- the real trickery is inside a special 256KB cartridge. You probably wouldn't want to go on an Orange is the New Black marathon given the chunky 8-bit graphics, but it's nice to know that you can.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/10/netflix-on-an-nes/
Netflix's experimental Hack Days (http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/27/netflix-hack-day-2014-projects/) often lead to wonderfully off-the-wall projects, but its latest might have produced the best example yet. Engineers Guy Cirino, Carenina Motion and Alex Wolfe have whipped up (http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/03/netflix-hack-day-winter-2015.html) DarNES, a hack that turns the original Nintendo Entertainment System into a Netflix playback machine. The '80s-era console is unchanged -- the real trickery is inside a special 256KB cartridge. You probably wouldn't want to go on an Orange is the New Black marathon given the chunky 8-bit graphics, but it's nice to know that you can.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/10/netflix-on-an-nes/