RMD: Wii Component Cable

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:28 am 0

That's a bit bizarre.

Wii sports doesn't work at all for me through 480p on the 245c. My telly goes all blue like there's no signal, this doesn't happen when I plug the Wii directly into the telly.

I spoke to Joytech today and they had no update on the issues I'm having. They do run a proper helpdesk type system there though so you can phone up and log a call and get a reference number.

There's also this I made when I had too much time on my hands. Unfortunately you can't really see the flicker very well on the main OS screen but you can see another problem in the photo channel, basically I created and all white photo and you can see how badly the screen gets distorted when it's displayed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpDGB84Truo

Anyway, I like the Joytech it's a good bit of kit for the money. I'm currently just running mine in 576i at the moment till Joytech find a solution and can sort a replacement or whatever happens.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:32 pm 0

Posted this on avforums, might as well add it here for reference.

Top is official, bottom is madcatz.

Bugger all difference really. If you overlay and flip the two you can see the text on the official is slightly more defined but you;d need a magnifying glass to see it in real life.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 11:37 am 0

Here's another!

Madcatz vs Official

(461KB, 256 colour gif)

(I'm posting these on another forum, just cross posting here for reference)

Nixie · Post by **Nixie** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:36 pm 0

which is which?! im presuming the official one is the slighly brighter and crisper?

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:43 pm 0

Yep.

They're just the images from page 3 overlayed. The above highlights the worst of it, have a look at the piccies on page 3 and see if you would have been able to spot the difference without someone pointing it out.

Nixie · Post by **Nixie** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:50 pm 0

barely! since you have a good scaler/de-interlacer (as my projector seems to have) in your tv, have you tried running rgb through it yet? its technically a few degrees nicer than component but without the progressive scan ,which I'm finding on my projecter makes no discernable difference.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:05 pm 0

Heh no not yet. I don't think I'd bother either to be honest, I'd have to buy an RGB switch as well and I reckon the difference wouldn't be worth forking out for (yet) another (bloody) cable.

Louis G · Post by **Louis G** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:04 am 0

Anyone tried this component cable?

http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-10z ... -1rch.html

Â£6.98 with shipping

Louis

Louis G · Post by **Louis G** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:50 pm 0

anyone?

Barnard · Post by **Barnard** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:49 pm 0

I thought I'd repost a post I made elsewhere for your information.

Important info regarding black levels on certain LCD televisions using the Wii component output.

It will save the pulling out of Hair later.

Zelda TP brightness and LCD HDTV question

Blacker Than Black

A note about the "super black" and "super white" in those patterns; When you show that pattern on the Wii, the super blacks and whites will simply be shown with the blackest black and whitest whites the Wii can display, and thus, you should be able to see them, contrary to normal alignment procedure with "blacker than black" patterns. I think the blackest black the Wii has actually IS super black though, because some TV's will refuse to show it as darker than the 16 no matter what you do, which is a major gripe of mine, as, to give one example, it forces you to use the lantern in Zelda to see where you didn't have to use it at all on another TV that can display "blacker than black". On the super white, the Wii doesn't show over 251.

The oil sellers in game are making a mint from me!

defsdoor · Post by **defsdoor** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 11:05 pm 0

Barnard wrote: The oil sellers in game are making a mint from me!

Steal it from the parrot's shop!

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:22 am 0

Interesting, super -whites eh.

This could explain why my component switch goes bonkers on very white screens.

From here : http://www.larryjordan.biz/articles/lj_white.html

Putting computer graphics that are higher than 100 IRE units (i.e. RGB values greater than 235 units for any color) into sequences designed for broadcast or DVD will potentially cause buzzing in the audio, tearing whites, bleeding colors, and, often, rejection by Q&A engineers at your distribution outlet.

It's odd though that some people using the same switch as I have don't get it.

seewolfe · Post by **seewolfe** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:19 pm 0

I got a third party wii component (& one for my XBOX1) from Console Plus along with this

http://www.consoleplus.co.uk/product_in ... t-selector

cheap and works well. Big difference on my wii between this and normal composite. Makes XBMC look sweet as well

(I think Play-Asia do the same but cheaper)

Louis G · Post by **Louis G** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:07 pm 0

i got one of those another thumbs up for the component switcher.

Louis