Netflix on NES a Hoax

Have you seen this video that depicts an NES purportedly playing videos from Netflix?  Having a high cool factor, unfortunately this has all been a hoax.  Word from the developers of this interesting demo is that they actually used pre-converted video that was stored in animated tiles on a ROM that was then played back on an original NES.  The original NES would no doubt have had a hard time decompressing the video format that Netflix streams to its clients in real-time!  Still interesting that they were able to play back full motion video on an NES at all though.

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