Component-Madcatz-Good?

rip2roar

Just wanted to know whether the component cable by MadCatz makes a major difference to the Wii, and if the leap in quality is worth 30 yo yos. What does the Wii look like without component cables on a HDTV?(Getting my Wii tomorrow)

Dman001

I think you can get Game branded coponent cables for E14.99

Irishpimpdude

can someone confirm about the gameware cables? ive just been to game.co.uk and it says 7 days untill release and there also 15 Pound sterling http://www.game.co.uk/ViewProduct.aspx?cat=11371&mid=329915

DemonOfTheFall

I've seen the difference with a PS2 between composite and component and it's like night and day. Definitely go for the component, you won't be disappointed

Irishpimpdude

Yea im defo gonna get one... just waiting to find out about the game one

Dman001

Well the gameware ones are deffo out cos i saw them on Friday but i cannot comfirm the price was 15.99

abelard

Um, I'm sure this has been asked countless times, but here I go anyway.....

To my shame, I don't really know anything about HDTV's or component cables or anything, so would getting a component cable make any difference if I was just using your standard old CRT (albeit a relatively new model [bout 18 month old])?

Irishpimpdude

As far as i know they dont connect to crts ? :eek:

abelard

Irishpimpdude wrote:

As far as i know they dont connect to crts ? :eek:

Well at least that means I don't have to worry about it so! Like I said, HDTV stuff, way over my head. Thanks

rip2roar

And does anyone know how much better the Wii Browser is in HD?

scrapland

rip2roar wrote:

And does anyone know how much better the Wii Browser is in HD?

NO.

Why, because the wii regardless of component output does NOT do HD.

It has progressive scan support for SD resolution.

There is little difference between wii browser whether you select 480p/ 480i / 576i on the wii setup.

The browsing remains still near impossible to read text when its zoomed out regardless.

For the same reason things like the UNISON internet box for your TV failed in Ireland, wii browser suffers from the same problem.

Websites are not designed for SD resolutions period.

Andrew76

rip2roar wrote:

Just wanted to know whether the component cable by MadCatz makes a major difference to the Wii, and if the leap in quality is worth 30 yo yos. What does the Wii look like without component cables on a HDTV?(Getting my Wii tomorrow)

Yes the madcatz component cables are definitely worth getting. I've been using them for the last few days and you get a much sharper image. As scrapland says the Wii doesn't do true HD but the components will give you the best picture you can get. Imo the browser is pretty crap anyway, one page at a time and having to zoom to read anything properly is a pain. It's a nice novelty at first but it could never hope to compete with browsing on a pc etc.

rip2roar

I have been playing Zelda on my 26" Samsung HDTV and it looks very unclear in places, will this be sorted through the cables?

cognos

my hdtv only has dvi-i input (rather than component). Thinking of getting something like this component to dvi cable. anyone know if I will get the same benefit thru this?

Cardinal

To the person who posted asking about component with a standard res CRT television: it's unlikely, but not impossible, that there are component inputs on your TV. If there are, using a component cable WILL give you noticable improvement over composite. If not you could still get an RGB SCART cable (nintendo do an official one) which will also noticibly improve the picture.

rip2roar: Component cable should give you some improvement but there may be other reasons that your image is unclear. Those Samsung TVs seem to be pretty good though, from what I've seen.

DemonOfTheFall

You sure it isn't DVI-D that your telly has ? DVI-I is DVI-D and VGA in the same connector. Didn't know of any tellies with DVI-I but I'm sure I've been wrong before...

cognos

This is whats on the back of the tv.

rip2roar

Nope, there is no component jack.

ilovehoovering

i have the game brand cable and i'm just wondering if anyone has heard of any difference in quality between them and the other cables around.

Dman001

You can only use component cables if they have HDTV/EDTV compatible written on the back of the game box.Otherwise i think the game looks unclear like rip2roar said and Zelda does not say HDTV/EDTV compatible on the box

the corpo

a friend tried to pick me up some component cables in the states last week, everywhere had the mad catz cables, but nearly every store told him they were pretty poor quality.

just picked up some official ones in game henry st

now i just need a bleedin telly to go with it!

Gibrean

Are the GAME labeled ones any good? plently of those in the shops.

Darnell13

Got the Mad Catz Comp cables in Gamestop at the weekend. I'm not great on the technical side of these things, but i can tell you that the picture does seem to be a good bit sharper. Not sure if it's 30 quids worth of sharpness, mind you.

GrumPy

Anyone know if any HMV branches are doing the cables yet?

I have a €30 voucher burning a hole in my pocket.

juanjo

cognos wrote:

This is whats on the back of the tv.

cognos, u can connect the component cables through the scart. see the screen with the 3 points symbol? that means that it accepts component input through it. i saw an adaptor from component to scart in peats the other day.

Retr0gamer

Anyone with CRT TVs should get themselves a Scart cable. The image quality is hugely improved over the cable supplied.