This patent application is much more concerned with viewing and interacting with the device, almost as a console, than it is with actually communicating.
However, if the original Wii set a bar for intuitive control of a wide range of video games, TVii takes once TV-shy Nintendo and puts it in the driver's seat when it comes to defining a console's second-screen approach to television viewing and interaction.
LOVEFiLM, an Amazon company, launches on Nintendo's Wii home console today with a launch on Nintendo's new HD home console Wii U to follow shortly, transforming the movie viewing experience for up to eight million UK Wii users who will now be able to select and instantly stream movies and TV shows with a wave of their Wii Remote.