[Serious] Nintendo Wii HD

[Valleysboy1978]

Has anyone tried hooking their Nintendo Wii up to their HD TV?
If so how was it because I know the Wii is only 480p compatible (and how do I find out if my tv is capable of 480p?)


Heard rumours of a Wii HD coming soon anyway.

[timeshifter]

If your TV is widescreen, it's 480p compatable. That's the dead bottom of modern resolutions. I have a 26" widescreen that can run the 1080i res, just for reference.

[Valleysboy1978]

I've got a hitachi 32" but I can't for the life of my find anywhere where it specifies what resolution it's capable of.

Some say that it's 720 because of it's size, others say size isn't applicable but the quality of the picture is

[timeshifter]

Quality of picture is also based on the channel. A channel that isn't broadcasted in HD will not appear in HD.

[Valleysboy1978]

Yes, but how can I tell what the maximum my tv can handle? 720? 1080? i/p?

[Arrow_Raider]

Somewhere (maybe online) you should be able to find the resolution of the tv.

If your tv is "1080i compatible", it will probably have a resolution of 1360×768 which is NOT 1080 just fyi. If it supports 1080p, it will most likely have a resolution of 1920x1080. Widescreen 480 is 768x480. To get 480p from the wii, you need to do.. stuff... in the wii settings and you need a component video output for the wii instead of the standard yellow/red/white cables.

[superbovine]

Yes, but how can I tell what the maximum my tv can handle? 720? 1080? i/p?

www.google.com type in your brand and model number.

or goto the manufactorer website under support and find the manual

or

RTFM (google this one)

[Valleysboy1978]

Oh haha very funny....idiot
You really think I haven't read the manual? For your information the manual mentions nothing about what HD format it does or doesn't support.

Next time keep your stupid answers to yourself as this has been clearly indicated as a Serious thread.

[Valleysboy1978]

Somewhere (maybe online) you should be able to find the resolution of the tv.

If your tv is "1080i compatible", it will probably have a resolution of 1360×768 which is NOT 1080 just fyi. If it supports 1080p, it will most likely have a resolution of 1920x1080. Widescreen 480 is 768x480. To get 480p from the wii, you need to do.. stuff... in the wii settings and you need a component video output for the wii instead of the standard yellow/red/white cables.

It seems it has a 1366x768 resolution so I'm assuming that it supports 1080i (but not 1080p)?

Damn this stuff is confusing!

[Valleysboy1978]

To get 480p from the wii, you need to do.. stuff... in the wii settings and you need a component video output for the wii instead of the standard yellow/red/white cables.

Sounds a bit dodgy with that pause. I've heard the graphics are pretty appalling when put through a HD tv in the component output. Anyone tried this?

[superbovine]

Oh haha very funny....idiot
You really think I haven't read the manual? For your information the manual mentions nothing about what HD format it does or doesn't support.

Next time keep your stupid answers to yourself as this has been clearly indicated as a Serious thread.

Well it wasn't a stupid answer. From your post it sounded like you didn't know where to look for the answer. Clearly, you did research some place and find the resolution. However, you still cannot make the connection that you can look up what resolution specfication on HD.

My answer are stupid, but they are correct.

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5137915-1.html

[capsulecorpjx]

Has anyone tried hooking their Nintendo Wii up to their HD TV?
If so how was it because I know the Wii is only 480p compatible (and how do I find out if my tv is capable of 480p?)


Heard rumours of a Wii HD coming soon anyway.

The Wii is still sold out at my local stores. And I don't feel like camping out to buy the incoming shipments.

[System_Error]

I'm wondering the same. I hooked my elite up to my brothers HD and selected hdmi. It showed 720p, but I couldn't find a way of changing this or a way to see what was the highest.

[Arrow_Raider]

composite video (yellow cable) provides a lower quality picture than component cables. The wii is going to not look great on a hd tv no matter what, but it surely won't look worse with component cables.

[Arrow_Raider]

1080i is interlaced, 1080p is progressive
You can see comparisons in this animation:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lacingani2.gif

As you can see, interlaced draws the even rows first, then the odd rows next. When this is done on a crt, our eyes can't really percieve the interlacing and it appears as a regular image. In order to display interlacing on a non-crt screen, the tv must deinterlace the video. A couple of the ways this can be done is through just removing the odd or even fields or interpolating them. There are most likely other techniques that can be used, but those are two of them. Essentially with interlacing, each frame only contains half of the vertical pixels. With progressive scan, each frame contains all of the vertical pixels. For stuff like motion, there is a noticable difference. High motion on interlaced video can produce artifacts or look jagged.

If a tv has a resolution of 1920x1080, it is able to draw every single pixel of a progressive image. It is also able to draw every single pixel of a deinterlaced image of an interlaced video. If a tv is lower than 1920x1080, it has to shrink the image so that it will fit on the lower resolution. This causes loss of detail because it is removing pixels and blending them together. So while your tv can read 1080i, it must shrink the image once it has deinterlaced it.