[reaperSKD]

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has tried A HD BOX PRO with their Wii and HDTV. My TV (samsung LE19R86BDX) has a VGA input, and I was wondering if I plugged my component cables into the HD BOX PRO then plugged it in the VGA slot, would I get a better picture. Because my Wii picture through just my component cables to the TV is shockingly bad. It's so bad I find my Wii very hard to play and it's not getting much use
Thanks for any replies.

[pw00t]

Originally Posted by reaperSKD

Hi, I was wondering if anyone here has tried A HD BOX PRO with their Wii and HDTV. My TV (samsung LE19R86BDX) has a VGA input, and I was wondering if I plugged my component cables into the HD BOX PRO then plugged it in the VGA slot, would I get a better picture. Because my Wii picture through just my component cables to the TV is shockingly bad. It's so bad I find my Wii very hard to play and it's not getting much use
Thanks for any replies.

Hi there. I use the HD Box Pro with my PS2 on a 19 inch VGA monitor, and it looks great. However, I don't think the HD Box Pro upscales, so the benefits might only be minimal at best on a larger HD screen.

What make of component cables are you using? Many third-party brands have quality control issues.

[reaperSKD]

Originally Posted by pw00t

Hi there. I use the HD Box Pro with my PS2 on a 19 inch VGA monitor, and it looks great. However, I don't think the HD Box Pro upscales, so the benefits might only be minimal at best on a larger HD screen.

What make of component cables are you using? Many third-party brands have quality control issues.

Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm using the official HD component cables from nintendo. I really don't think they made too much different from the RGB cables I was using. The image is still really bag though

[pw00t]

Originally Posted by reaperSKD

Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm using the official HD component cables from nintendo. I really don't think they made too much different from the RGB cables I was using. The image is still really bag though

You're welcome . Can you define what you mean by bad - is the picture too sharp or too blurred, or is something else happening?

Just to check, and sorry if this sounds patronising, but have you tried changing the Wii settings to 480p? There might be other scaling settings on your TV that you can try adjusting too. I've also read that some people use calibration DVDs with their HDTV.

[reaperSKD]

It's very blurry and pixelated. I know the Wii isn't known for it's graphics anyway, but I feel they were much much better on my standard TV I had before I switched to a HD one. Also the dark colours (grey, black) appear patchy. I don't think it's a problem with my TV as my PS3 and 360 work fine (appart from some framerate issues )
Only thing that looks bad is Wii unfortunatly because I have alot of unfinished titles on there.
Even my upscaled DVD's on the PS3 look fantastic.
And yeah I've changed it to 480p. There was no enhancement in the picture since doing so, as I heard 480p only makes moving images better.
It's really frustrating.
I heard somewhere ages ago about a box being released by a 3rd party company that upscales the Wii to 720p but retailed about £200. I can't find anything about it again.

[tvbox]

[QUOTE]Because my Wii picture through just my component cables to the TV is shockingly bad.[QUOTE]

I thought the wii component cables were the best? Are you talking about the Composite ones that came in the box? (red, white, yellow)

Component is red blue and green, and red white for audio

[reaperSKD]

Nope, i'm on about the official Component cables which I paid in excess of £35 for. It's all set up properly and i've changed the setting on the Wii and it still doesn't look a whole lot better than the composite ones I had with it. Just to make it worse, I can't play a vast majority of my VC games through them. Nintendo really let the ball slip in releasing a Non-HD console in a HD era.

[Bossk128]

Originally Posted by reaperSKD

Nope, i'm on about the official Component cables which I paid in excess of £35 for. It's all set up properly and i've changed the setting on the Wii and it still doesn't look a whole lot better than the composite ones I had with it. Just to make it worse, I can't play a vast majority of my VC games through them. Nintendo really let the ball slip in releasing a Non-HD console in a HD era.

Although I also wish the Wii had sharper graphics, the sales figures kind of disprove that last statement.

[G a f f e r]

Originally Posted by Bossk128

Although I also wish the Wii had sharper agreements, the sales figures kind of disprove that last statement.

QFT, I agree. Sales almost the same as 360 AND PS3 combined hardly point towards "letting the ball slip" imho .

[The Wagster]

I thought Nintendo's research showed that on release of the Wii around 70% of households didn't have HD ready tvs. So it wasn't really the HD era when Wii was released.

Nintendo has recently said that figure has now reversed; 70% do have HD ready tvs. This sparked the recent speculation of an HD Wii 2 - but it's still speculation for now.

[tvbox]

Dont they have Wii HDMIs? I dont care if it upscales 1080p or whatever, but component cables are a lot of spaghetti, 5 plugs?

Or just get a wii component cable then component-HDMI,,, surely after that you will be HD automatically because you are using a HD cable?

[Bossk128]

Originally Posted by tvbox

Dont they have Wii HDMIs? I dont care if it upscales 1080p or whatever, but component cables are a lot of spaghetti, 5 plugs?

Or just get a wii component cable then component-HDMI,,, surely after that you will be HD automatically because you are using a HD cable?

Your signature says it all!

A magic cable can't create more information that wasn't there already. The PS3 and X360 spend a lot of CPU cycles to create high resolution images, but the Wii just can't do it. the choice of cable is dictated here by what minimal losses can be achieved, and 480P is as good as it gets with a component cable. Maybe there are powered converters that will turn this into VGA or HDMI signals, but really all they will do is introduce more lag.

[insomniak123]

Originally Posted by Bossk128

Your signature says it all!

A magic cable can't create more information that wasn't there already. The PS3 and X360 spend a lot of CPU cycles to create high resolution images, but the Wii just can't do it. the choice of cable is dictated here by what minimal losses can be achieved, and 480P is as good as it gets with a component cable. Maybe there are powered converters that will turn this into VGA or HDMI signals, but really all they will do is introduce more lag.

you don't need a "powered converter" to turn analog component into analog DVI-I into analog VGA, for obvious reasons

I spent a tenner on the "game.co.uk" gameware component cables, £3 on a DVI-I -> VGA adapter, and used a component -> DVI-A cable plus a 3-phono coupler to hook my Wii up via VGA, and it looks smart. A lot of cableage stuck behind the telly stand, but it's worth it

[Bossk128]

Originally Posted by insomniak123

you don't need a "powered converter" to turn analog component into analog DVI-I into analog VGA, for obvious reasons

I spent a tenner on the "game.co.uk" gameware component cables, £3 on a DVI-I -> VGA adapter, and used a component -> DVI-A cable plus a 3-phono coupler to hook my Wii up via VGA, and it looks smart. A lot of cableage stuck behind the telly stand, but it's worth it

Is this any better than just using straight component? Or are you short of inputs?

[insomniak123]

Originally Posted by Bossk128

Is this any better than just using straight component? Or are you short of inputs?

yep, already got my xbox taking up the components

haven't done a comparison but it looks pretty sharp on both my old-ish Samsung LCD (R74) and my PC monitor (1080p Asus)