HDMI for the Nintendo Wii?

[HeroOfPellinor]

I'm hoping to run the Wii through my AV receiver that does HDMI switching. Are there any cables or adapters that will allow me to do this?

 

[Modeps]

Nope.

 

[randay]

who for your when?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Nope.

Meh. Oh well. All the more reason to wall mount a cheap LCD TV in the girls room and let them play in there.

I have HDMI through the wall from my receiver, so like hell am I gonna have wires hanging off my TV.

 

[Modeps]

Yeah, problem is that HDMI == Digital, Component == Analog... So you'd need to have some Analog to Digital converter, that allows for HDCP.

 

[CKDragon]

There seems to be at least one item on eBay that advertises the functionality you're looking for. It doesn't look like the cleanest solution and it's pretty expensive at $63 from the UK, but it might provide a lead so you can find it cheaper on another site.

 

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
I'm hoping to run the Wii through my AV receiver that does HDMI switching. Are there any cables or adapters that will allow me to do this?

I cant imagine that theres an AV receiver than does HDMI switching and not component switching as well. You're not going to gain any image quality by running it over HDMI.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: BD2003

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
I'm hoping to run the Wii through my AV receiver that does HDMI switching. Are there any cables or adapters that will allow me to do this?

I cant imagine that theres an AV receiver than does HDMI switching and not component switching as well. You're not going to gain any image quality by running it over HDMI.

There are a lot of receivers that do both component and HDMI switching, there are far fewer that upconvert EVERY signal (Composite, S-Video, Component, etc.) fed to the receiver to a single HDMI output, which is very convenient and clean. I imagine that the OP does not wish to run an extra set of component cables from his receiver to his TV.

 

[jdoggg12]

Why would you need hdmi for a system that only does 480p? Does it not switch component?

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12
Why would you need hdmi for a system that only does 480p? Does it not switch component?

Cleanliness.

I have a plasma TV wall mounted. I ran the power and a thick gauge HDMI cable through the wall to the media cabinet on the other end of the wall. An AV receiver gets the signal from the satellite and HD-DVD player as HDMI and performs switching so I only need one HDMI cable going to the TV. It all amounts to a very clean look even inside the cabinet which is actually a little curio. Same with the speakers which I built custom wall mounts for and ran the cables through the attic.

Opened up the room nicely.

Oh, and the AV receiver was the cheapest I could find that would do full HDMI switching with 3 HDMI inputs. So I'm pretty sure it only switches the HDMI signals.....Sony DG810.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Oh, and the AV receiver was the cheapest I could find that would do full HDMI switching with 3 HDMI inputs. So I'm pretty sure it only switches the HDMI signals.....Sony DG810.

It appears that way. Sound and Vision's receiver database shows that the DG910 (not DG810) is capable of upconverting all signals to HDMI.

 

[erwos]

The Wii also doesn't have digital audio output, so HDMI wouldn't work for that, either. Nintendo's decision to only output at 480p didn't mean they had to screw us on digital output. Grr...