So i spent the last few weeks experimenting with my Nintendo wii.I spent both time and money on my expetiments,and thought i should share my experience with Wii gamers. There may be simillar threads over here,but still.
All i wanted was to connect my wii to a PC monitor with high picture quality. I read on forums that wii only gives 480p signal thats 640X480,and thats low. In order to get a good picture quality on my 24 inch monitor i bought a Component to VGA box all the way from china.Cost me 4000 rs including postage. I know there was this cable which i could buy for less price but the idea of buying the box was to upscale the signal to full HD quality,and it did work.
The box had menu options for upscaling wii resolution,and i tried up to 1600X1050 and the picture did look better with higher resolution. The down side was that the box needed a sepaerate power supply,and the box introduced a micro stuttering in the picture.I could see the the picture stuttering slightly if i observed closely.But a good quality box may not have this problem.So if you want to play wii on a big screen,such as your 50" TV,buy the box.
Then the box being a cheap low quality item from china,stopped working after only two days.Had to return,and the seller did refund my money. Then i bought a simple Component to RGB VGA converter.
After connection this adapter to my Nintendo Wii HD Component cable,the monitor didnt pick any signal and wont come out of sleep mode.It turned out that the adapter only works with an anlogue component source and wii is a digital component or YUV.
Now after all those internet searches,forum reading,buying adapters and experimenting,i am back to square one,and have bought the custom built Wii to VGA cable. It wont upscale the picture and i will have to be content with 480p,but it wont need any complex electronics or an external power source and hence will be durable and reliable.
Also i experimented with DVI and VGA signals and zoomed the pictured all the way to pixels. The pixels from DVI signal were well defined perfect squares with no smearing at the edges. The pixels from a VGA source were also squares,but the boundaries were a bit fuzzy and smeared. So by experimenting i know that although both VGA and DVI can go upto similar resolutions but a DVI picture is clearer then that of a VGA,and the reason is what i mentioned above. No noise.
All i wanted was to connect my wii to a PC monitor with high picture quality. I read on forums that wii only gives 480p signal thats 640X480,and thats low. In order to get a good picture quality on my 24 inch monitor i bought a Component to VGA box all the way from china.Cost me 4000 rs including postage. I know there was this cable which i could buy for less price but the idea of buying the box was to upscale the signal to full HD quality,and it did work.
The box had menu options for upscaling wii resolution,and i tried up to 1600X1050 and the picture did look better with higher resolution. The down side was that the box needed a sepaerate power supply,and the box introduced a micro stuttering in the picture.I could see the the picture stuttering slightly if i observed closely.But a good quality box may not have this problem.So if you want to play wii on a big screen,such as your 50" TV,buy the box.
Then the box being a cheap low quality item from china,stopped working after only two days.Had to return,and the seller did refund my money. Then i bought a simple Component to RGB VGA converter.
After connection this adapter to my Nintendo Wii HD Component cable,the monitor didnt pick any signal and wont come out of sleep mode.It turned out that the adapter only works with an anlogue component source and wii is a digital component or YUV.
Now after all those internet searches,forum reading,buying adapters and experimenting,i am back to square one,and have bought the custom built Wii to VGA cable. It wont upscale the picture and i will have to be content with 480p,but it wont need any complex electronics or an external power source and hence will be durable and reliable.
Also i experimented with DVI and VGA signals and zoomed the pictured all the way to pixels. The pixels from DVI signal were well defined perfect squares with no smearing at the edges. The pixels from a VGA source were also squares,but the boundaries were a bit fuzzy and smeared. So by experimenting i know that although both VGA and DVI can go upto similar resolutions but a DVI picture is clearer then that of a VGA,and the reason is what i mentioned above. No noise.
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