What do you get when you have a Wii and a 42" HD telly?
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Charlies Angel said:
..... me, very disapointed that it doesnt have HD games.
Zelda - HD - BRILLIANT!!!
Can you get other wires which make a better picture for the wii??
Just got a 42" LG tv today and the 360 looks great, just a shame the Wii cant be!
Zelda - HD - BRILLIANT!!!
Can you get other wires which make a better picture for the wii??
Just got a 42" LG tv today and the 360 looks great, just a shame the Wii cant be!
The component cables will give you 480p, so it will look somewhat better. And don't complain too much, HD on the Wii would have added about $50-100 to the price, and anyway, the gameplay is the important thing. Wario Smooth Moves looks brilliant even on 480i, and that's on a 50" plasma.
I bought the component cables - 480p. The picture quality is better than composite - no ghosting.
Wii sports appeared my better, sharper. Zelda is still far too fuzzy/blurred for me - almost as if it's upscaling from a Nintendo DS resolution.
The Wii is a great console for socialising - we had visitors this week & they really enjoyed it. The 360 is closer to PC gaming IMHO. The Wii is nice & quiet, built-in wireless, unobtrusive. The 360 feels like a cut down PC & really annoys me with the aircraft carrier level noise & the fact that I'm on my third console. Graphics are fantastic though.
Wii sports appeared my better, sharper. Zelda is still far too fuzzy/blurred for me - almost as if it's upscaling from a Nintendo DS resolution.
The Wii is a great console for socialising - we had visitors this week & they really enjoyed it. The 360 is closer to PC gaming IMHO. The Wii is nice & quiet, built-in wireless, unobtrusive. The 360 feels like a cut down PC & really annoys me with the aircraft carrier level noise & the fact that I'm on my third console. Graphics are fantastic though.
Chris Type R said:
I bought the component cables - 480p. The picture quality is better than composite - no ghosting.
Wii sports appeared my better, sharper. Zelda is still far too fuzzy/blurred for me - almost as if it's upscaling from a Nintendo DS resolution.
The Wii is a great console for socialising - we had visitors this week & they really enjoyed it. The 360 is closer to PC gaming IMHO. The Wii is nice & quiet, built-in wireless, unobtrusive. The 360 feels like a cut down PC & really annoys me with the aircraft carrier level noise & the fact that I'm on my third console. Graphics are fantastic though.
Wii sports appeared my better, sharper. Zelda is still far too fuzzy/blurred for me - almost as if it's upscaling from a Nintendo DS resolution.
The Wii is a great console for socialising - we had visitors this week & they really enjoyed it. The 360 is closer to PC gaming IMHO. The Wii is nice & quiet, built-in wireless, unobtrusive. The 360 feels like a cut down PC & really annoys me with the aircraft carrier level noise & the fact that I'm on my third console. Graphics are fantastic though.
Yea tend to agree with some of what you have written. I will buy the component cables and see if it makes a difference. I think you have a wii and a 360 for different reasons. The wii you have for the interaction and how you play the game, makes things more interesting whereas the 360 is all about graphics and amazing detail. Though the noise of the 360 is really really loud compared to the wii.
Im glad i have all three, wii - 360 - pc. Have a gamecube too but that can be played on the wii. Not interested in the PS3 at all. Too overpriced and nothing new which isnt in the 360 - IMHO.
Nik
ChriX said:
I got bored of chainsawing things in HD in Serious Sam about 6 years ago :P
Yeah, been playing NWN2 in 1920x1200, looks... alright
The Wii isn't really a wonder of HD technology. I think if you plug component cables in and tell it to do HD (it's in the Wii menu thing) it looks a bit better.
Zelda's graphics are odd, I think the fuzzy aspect is someone not quite setting the focus properly (the ingame camera, not the focus on your telly). It still looks very good on our old 28" CRT.
On the subject of HD and the 360 does anyone know if there are any cables I can get to connect my Philips HD to my 360? Dispite being quite new it does not have an HD socket but seems to only have an HDI socket? The std cable only allows me to have the dpi set at 480 which is quite disapointing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Any help would be appreciated.
Right, forget about HDMI.
First, have you connected using the Component cables (RGB) and Audio (RW)?
Did you set the switch on the cable at the 360 end to HD?
Did you then set the output in Dashboard to 720p?
Your TV should easily recognise a HD signal on the Component input - check TV settings if the above have been done and nothing's changed.
First, have you connected using the Component cables (RGB) and Audio (RW)?
Did you set the switch on the cable at the 360 end to HD?
Did you then set the output in Dashboard to 720p?
Your TV should easily recognise a HD signal on the Component input - check TV settings if the above have been done and nothing's changed.
PJ S said:
Right, forget about HDMI.
First, have you connected using the Component cables (RGB) and Audio (RW)?
Did you set the switch on the cable at the 360 end to HD?
Did you then set the output in Dashboard to 720p?
Your TV should easily recognise a HD signal on the Component input - check TV settings if the above have been done and nothing's changed.
First, have you connected using the Component cables (RGB) and Audio (RW)?
Did you set the switch on the cable at the 360 end to HD?
Did you then set the output in Dashboard to 720p?
Your TV should easily recognise a HD signal on the Component input - check TV settings if the above have been done and nothing's changed.
Nope I don't think I did that, when I connected the component cables I did switch set the switch on the cable to HD but never got a picture. Sounds like it was because I did not set the output to 720p. I will have a go when I get home tonight.
Thanks
Whats composite and component?
I'm so confused now with all the different resolutions and connections
If I want a 32" LCD screen which will play the Wii at 480 resolution, a Xbox 360 in whatever it will go to when I get round to buying one and my soon to be delivered home cinema which "upscales to HDMI quality"???!!
Any pointers?!
I'm so confused now with all the different resolutions and connections
If I want a 32" LCD screen which will play the Wii at 480 resolution, a Xbox 360 in whatever it will go to when I get round to buying one and my soon to be delivered home cinema which "upscales to HDMI quality"???!!
Any pointers?!
Composite is a single cable (yellow RCA typically) with two others (R/W or R/Bk) for audio.
Component is 3 cables (RGB) - where each one carries the separate component signals.
Bit like a component car audio system - you can do cheap and cheerful with one speaker each side doing the whole spectrum, or you can split the spectrum up into 3 so each performs it's part to the best of its ability (tweeter, midrange, [sub]woofer).
HDMI is digital signals in one multipin cable - think of it as the digital version of the SCART cable (big rectangular one in the back of the telly) which carries separate RGB and stereo audio signals. HDMI goes on step further, in that it carries multi-channel audio rather than just stereo.
For a start, forget 32" for Home Cinema/Theater - 37" minimum to make the most of the experience.
Your TV will likely come with HDMI and SCART, as well as Component, S-Video, and Composite. It'll also have an aerial input for the Freeview tuner to work.
Oh, and don't fool yourself into buying a £500 LCD TV - they're crap with standard def broadcast.
Save the pennies and spend £850-£1500 on a good 37/42" LCD or 42" Plamsa, and enjoy it for the next 5-10 years.
If you go for ones (not Plasma at that price) which are 1920x1080 based (instead of 1366x768), then it'll be ready for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray HD movies which can output at 1080p, not just 720p/1080i.
Component is 3 cables (RGB) - where each one carries the separate component signals.
Bit like a component car audio system - you can do cheap and cheerful with one speaker each side doing the whole spectrum, or you can split the spectrum up into 3 so each performs it's part to the best of its ability (tweeter, midrange, [sub]woofer).
HDMI is digital signals in one multipin cable - think of it as the digital version of the SCART cable (big rectangular one in the back of the telly) which carries separate RGB and stereo audio signals. HDMI goes on step further, in that it carries multi-channel audio rather than just stereo.
For a start, forget 32" for Home Cinema/Theater - 37" minimum to make the most of the experience.
Your TV will likely come with HDMI and SCART, as well as Component, S-Video, and Composite. It'll also have an aerial input for the Freeview tuner to work.
Oh, and don't fool yourself into buying a £500 LCD TV - they're crap with standard def broadcast.
Save the pennies and spend £850-£1500 on a good 37/42" LCD or 42" Plamsa, and enjoy it for the next 5-10 years.
If you go for ones (not Plasma at that price) which are 1920x1080 based (instead of 1366x768), then it'll be ready for HD-DVD and Blue-Ray HD movies which can output at 1080p, not just 720p/1080i.
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