RMD: Wii Component Cable

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:08 pm 0

These things seem to range in price from Â£15 up to Â£35 depending on the manufacturer and where you look. The official Nintendo one is most expensive and the Blaze one looks cheapest. Anyone tried any of these and can recommend something and where to buy?

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:08 pm 0

I've got a Blaze and it seems fine.

oxo · Post by **oxo** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:11 pm 0

madcatz one here for 15 quid, no problem.

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:12 pm 0

Err. I meant Madcatz too

Fuseball · Post by **Fuseball** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:14 pm 0

Official Nintendo one was in GAME for Â£22.95 yesterday. Honestly can't tell any difference between component and the RGB SCART cable on my 42" plasma.

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:17 pm 0

Madcatz cable seemed good on my Pioneer.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:20 pm 0

Cheers guys, just bought the Blaze one for Â£16.99 with free p&p from Amazon.

Wudzi · Post by **Wudzi** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:09 pm 0

Fuseball wrote:Official Nintendo one was in GAME for Â£22.95 yesterday. Honestly can't tell any difference between component and the RGB SCART cable on my 42" plasma.

Interesting. I've been on the lookout for an official one for my 42" plasma, but I might leave it if there isn't that much difference. You've obviously switched to 480p in the options on the Wii?

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:49 pm 0

RGB should in theory be better quality than component, I'd have thought? Surely there's two colourspace conversions involved in component, but none or one (i.e. gamut remap only) for RGB?

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:51 pm 0

Dio wrote:RGB should in theory be better quality than component, I'd have thought? Surely there's two colourspace conversions involved in component, but none or one (i.e. gamut remap only) for RGB?

But surely RGB signals are interlaced whereas component systems can be progressive. Now progressive RGB would be nice

Cheers

Bubba

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:05 pm 0

I agree about the RGB Scart and component - I cant tell the difference on my 40" Sony LCD - I did notice the other day that Amazon had "premier component" leads on pre-order..perhaps we may yet get VIP and Superstar at some later date

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:37 pm 0

Bubba wrote:
Dio wrote:RGB should in theory be better quality than component, I'd have thought? Surely there's two colourspace conversions involved in component, but none or one (i.e. gamut remap only) for RGB?
But surely RGB signals are interlaced whereas component systems can be progressive. Now progressive RGB would be nice

Ah, OK, I didn't think that RGB scart enforced PAL or NTSC signal timings.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:49 pm 0

Now that you come to mention it Dio, I'm not sure it does either

Calling some knowledgeable AV types...

Cheers

Bubba

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:38 pm 0

As far as I know, neither RGB or component have any PAL/NTSC type encoding on them.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 7:19 pm 0

Ummm...that's kinda true, except that you can't get RGB out of NTSC becuase of the way the colour is encoded but component can carry NTSC or PAL.

And as for RGB being better quality than component or vice versa I believe the issue is more to do with the amount information than you can put down a wire at a time and the amount of information/bandwidth required for each component of the video as opposed to the number of colour space conversions required.

I don't want to sound like I'm teaching people to suck eggs, but with RGB you have an equal amount of bandwidth available to each primary colour (red, green and blue), which is inefficient in itself *and* you're also having to cram the luminance information for each colour down each of the three wires. With a YCbCr component system you get one wire carrying nothing but luminance (the most important) then another two wires for the blue and red colour component with no overhead for their respective luminance. It's this higher bandwidth efficiency that makes it capable of carrying HD signals.