littlerobotman
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Hi got my Wii a couple of days ago and trying to feed my projector with a better signal than composite video. I've bought a component RGB lead but need to then convert this to either SVHS, VGA or DVI.
While converting to DVI would yield the best quality signal (I believe), for reasons of convinience I would prefer to connect SVHS - unless a switch that allows me to choose between two DVI sources isn't preclusively expensive?
Also whilst pursuing my magic component RGB to happiness box/cable I was told by the guild of wisemen at the shop that component RGB is a progressive signal and 'couldn't' be converted to SVHS. I understood this to mean 'be easily' converted from a progressive signal to a video (interlaced) one.
I imagined that a 'box' of some kind could perform this conversion but they didn't have one. I'm also dealing with a 3m run of cable upto the projector and hope that as well as converting to SVHS it could give the signal a little boost too... a man can dream can't he.
BUT, then looking on eBay I found the following two seeming solutions, the first of which appears to perform the forbidden straight RGB Component to SVHS - can someone who understands the world of AV tell me if this is this a nonsense?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-Pin-SVideo-...ryZ31531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
And for the DVI this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DVI-I-To-3-RC...0QQihZ008QQcategoryZ41993QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
These seem to good to be true and also looking at the URL's to belong to specific bits of kit. Can anyone give me a more definitive answer as to whether these would work, and if not, what/where I should be looking.
Composite is not ruining the Wii experience for me but the web of cables across my living room coupled with my arm flailing antics surely will before long.
I was also told by a console shop that there is a Nintendo Wii to SVHS but I that this only works with the NTSC Wii and not Pal. Anyone know any different?
Thanks.
LRM
While converting to DVI would yield the best quality signal (I believe), for reasons of convinience I would prefer to connect SVHS - unless a switch that allows me to choose between two DVI sources isn't preclusively expensive?
Also whilst pursuing my magic component RGB to happiness box/cable I was told by the guild of wisemen at the shop that component RGB is a progressive signal and 'couldn't' be converted to SVHS. I understood this to mean 'be easily' converted from a progressive signal to a video (interlaced) one.
I imagined that a 'box' of some kind could perform this conversion but they didn't have one. I'm also dealing with a 3m run of cable upto the projector and hope that as well as converting to SVHS it could give the signal a little boost too... a man can dream can't he.
BUT, then looking on eBay I found the following two seeming solutions, the first of which appears to perform the forbidden straight RGB Component to SVHS - can someone who understands the world of AV tell me if this is this a nonsense?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/7-Pin-SVideo-...ryZ31531QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
And for the DVI this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DVI-I-To-3-RC...0QQihZ008QQcategoryZ41993QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
These seem to good to be true and also looking at the URL's to belong to specific bits of kit. Can anyone give me a more definitive answer as to whether these would work, and if not, what/where I should be looking.
Composite is not ruining the Wii experience for me but the web of cables across my living room coupled with my arm flailing antics surely will before long.
I was also told by a console shop that there is a Nintendo Wii to SVHS but I that this only works with the NTSC Wii and not Pal. Anyone know any different?
Thanks.
LRM
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