Wii Component Cable

[A Casual Fitz]

I just bought a Wii locally and he included the HD component cable pictured here. I've never used anything HD before so I was worried from the start it wouldn't work right on my regular yellow, red, white inputs. I guess the green one is the one I should be using, however, no matter what settings I change on my wii the picture is only in black and white. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[lupi]

red-yellow-white are for composite cable connections. The cable you have is a component cable.

 

[biggestmuff]

The Wii isn't HD. That component cable with just deliver a cleaner 480 lines of resolution (Standard Devinition [SD]) to your display device.

Have fun!

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
The Wii isn't HD. That component cable with just deliver a cleaner 480 lines of resolution (Standard Devinition [SD]) to your display device.

Have fun!

not SD, ED.

SD = 480i
ED = 480p

The component cables will let you play with progressive scan.

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
The Wii isn't HD. That component cable with just deliver a cleaner 480 lines of resolution (Standard Devinition [SD]) to your display device.

Have fun!

Well, if you want to get technical, the component cable actually delivers an ED (enhanced-definition; 480p) signal to your display device, versus the SD (standard-definition, 480i) of the composite cable.

Wiki

Because EDTV signals use a progressive scan, they have about 50% more perceived vertical resolution than interlaced SDTV pictures with the same number of lines, and do not show the spatial/temporal aliasing artifacts associated with interlaced video. As a result, EDTV material gives much better results when upconverted for display on HDTV television sets, especially sets that natively use a progressive scan.

 

[lupi]

All of this discussion I'm sure is enthralling to someone, but it still doesn't address the apparent point of trying to use component cables on a TV that only has composite jacks.

 

[potato28]

Can you still contact this guy? He might have the composite cables somewheres. Or you could buy a set from Nintendo... but ask the guy who sold it to you first.

 

[sciencewhiz]

You need these: http://store.nintendo.com/weba...=SetCurrencyPreference

 

[eelw]

The green cable is used initially to connect via the composite video connection so you can see what you are doing to enable 480p mode. Because you can't see anything via the component cables until 480p mode is turned on. And yes, it will only display in black and white.

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: eelw
The green cable is used initially to connect via the composite video connection so you can see what you are doing to enable 480p mode. Because you can't see anything via the component cables until 480p mode is turned on. And yes, it will only display in black and white.

it's still a moot point since his tv only has composite inputs anyway. but an interesting fact to know.