Wii beats out PS3 in this Netflix load time comparison

Owners of Netflix for Wii have been having to find out how long the load times can be, but supposedly those load times can be even slower on the PlayStation 3. The video above shows a significant difference in load time (the PS3 takes 19% longer to load the same preview than the Wii in this video), though considering that none of this content is actually on the Wii or PS3, or on the Netflix disc… wouldn’t this depend entirely on one’s Internet connection?

Load times aside, the author of the video also claims that the video quality on the Wii is better than that of the PS3. Since this all should be coming from the same Netflix server, I assume the previews shown aren’t in HD. It would be pretty embarrassing if the PS3 preview was in HD and got shown up by the Wii. The Wii can’t even play DVD movies, and here it’s supposedly displaying movies in a better quality than a 1080p-enabled machine?

The jury’s still out on this one (especially since this is a YouTube vid), so feel free to drop your own experiences in the comments.

Kotaku

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  • Amir

    Thats because DVD loads faster then Blue Ray.

  • darksteel88

    The load times make sense because of the size difference between DVD and Blu-Ray. DVD videos are under 1GB while Blu-Ray are huge, usually like 20GB because of the quality, I know the BR DVDs are around 40GB in size while DVD are 4. But the quality makes no sense at all, how does DVD get better quality than BR? Unless the PS3 version is getting jerked and really isn't BR, or they cannot stream BR properly.