On the 22:nd of December I woke up to find my wii blinking blue. I turned the power on, entered the message board and found a delightful message from Nintendo declaring that the beta version of the "Internet Channel" had been released. Jumping of excitement I quickly entered the "Wii Shop Channel", found the internet channel and began downloading it. Now, (hehe) Mario running....jumping "pling", running....jumping "pling" and finally the last "pling". Now the "Internet Channel" is displayed in the wii menu, unlike the "Forecast Channel" the "Internet Channel" is poorly displayed in the menu with just blue text saying: Internet Channel, trial version. Very boring if you ask me but I do love the short audio clip playing when clicking on the channel. Booting the channel up went smoothly and you´re greeted with a sleek and simple interface, everything in wii-ish light blue. There are three options, "Favorites","Enter a Web Address" and "Help". After that you only need to know two things to get going, you scroll the websites with the b button and zoom in with the + button (big surprise there!). Well obviously it takes longer time to type in adresses and words with the wiiremote, but it´s really nothing that alter the experience. One of my first impressions of the web browser was how fast it was. It´s as fast as Apples "Safari" and perhaps sometimes even faster. I had some problems with some web sites though. I´m sorry to say that one of them was our dear Gamespot, but the Gamespot staff will probably fix that soon. They just have to make the site compatible with the wii browser. The overall experience is very positive. It´s very relaxing to surf the web from your sofa and the browser is as simple and intuitive as it can be. That the browser has flash and can play videos is wonderful, I´m 100% sure that I will spend many hours visiting sites like youtube with the wii "Internet Channel". If you don´t already know about it I would also like to recommend the site wiicade.com, here you can find flash games for the wii, you´ll have alot of fun. My overall score: 8/10