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−| Disc drive still supports DVD reading.
+| DVD-Video support is inadequately protected
| While the Wii was initially meant to support DVD playback, it was scrapped to avoid needing to pay licensing fees. This support was removed in later revisions of the disc drive. However, when the [[Hardware/Hollywood_Registers|Hollywood register ahbprot]] is disabled (e.g. by [[The Homebrew Channel]]), or diflags is enabled, homebrew can be used to read DVDs.
| While the Wii was initially meant to support DVD playback, it was scrapped to avoid needing to pay licensing fees. This support was removed in later revisions of the disc drive. However, when the [[Hardware/Hollywood_Registers|Hollywood register ahbprot]] is disabled (e.g. by [[The Homebrew Channel]]), or diflags is enabled, homebrew can be used to read DVDs.
−| DVDs can be loaded on the Wii.
+| DVDs can be read on the Wii.
| Unknown
| Unknown
| July 2008
| July 2008