alright..so iI got the madcatz cabels. I connect the green plug to the green jack, blue to blue ect... But when I select that hd option on the wii menue....my sceen goes completely black and I can only hear the sound.*I have the tv on "video" like normal when I play my wii*..but no picture at all..just sound I'm new to HD compentent cabels.and I have a Toshiba flat tube...but because it had proper jacks in the back, I thought I could use compent cabels. Any advice?
did you connect the red ones correctly? One of them goes to the sound and the other goes to the video.PikaPichu
Yes. I even tried swithching those red ones around...but when I have my TV on viedo 1....still no picture. I get some fuzzy messed up picture when I have my tv on color stream....but i can't make heads or tails of that.
[QUOTE="PikaPichu"]did you connect the red ones correctly? One of them goes to the sound and the other goes to the video.Shinobishyguy
Yes. I even tried swithching those red ones around...but when I have my TV on viedo 1....still no picture. I get some fuzzy messed up picture when I have my tv on color stream....but i can't make heads or tails of that.
I'm not sure then. Mine did that too when I first hooked things up (I'm new to HD and component cables too) and I realized that I had my cables mixed up.
^you mean you got the blank screen when you had your tv on the normal video setting?Shinobishyguy
When I first connected my component cables and turned on the Wii, all I got was a blank screen. I was starting to freak out, but looked at my connections and realized that I didn't connect them to the proper places. Are you sure Video 1 is where you want to be? My old TV had a separate 'video' for component connections called 'Component' and my current TV has a separate video mode for component called 'YbBr...' or something like that.
no, the only chanels I have for playing the wii on my tv is video 1, video 2, and color streamShinobishyguy
hmm... Do you know what the exact model of your TV is? If everything was working fine before you switched the Wii to display at 480p, your TV may only support 480i. My old set supported component cables, but could only display stuff at 480i.
[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"][QUOTE="MrNemesis"]-_- Change the tv to HD not just on the Wii. MrNemesis
dur.....how do I do that? hd noob talking here HD noob or not, all you do is use your remote to change the video settings from say SCART 1 to HD. scart? I'm not even sure if my tv has HD setting, let alone how to acess it. All I know is it has the proper jacks in the back for component cabels. do I just set the wii. When I have the component cabels connected, well I still get the sharper than composet picture If i keep it to 480i?
Hold on is there a way to change the Wii (not TV) to 480p?KJAX90
Yeah, there's an option in the settings menu to switch the Wii's output from 480i to 480p. You have to have component cables connected to it though, otherwise the option for 480p will be grayed out.
[QUOTE="Shinobishyguy"]alright..so iI got the madcatz cabels. I connect the green plug to the green jack, blue to blue ect... But when I select that hd option on the wii menue....my sceen goes completely black and I can only hear the sound.*I have the tv on "video" like normal when I play my wii*..but no picture at all..just sound I'm new to HD compentent cabels.and I have a Toshiba flat tube...but because it had proper jacks in the back, I thought I could use compent cabels. Any advice?
IÂ would never buy Madcatz anything. They make the crappiest 3rd party accessories! You would have been better off shelling out extra dough for some REAL components.
Lets straight some things out here. You don't need to own a HDTV to be able to use progressive scan and component video. You can use component video without progressive scan, it still gives a sharper picture.
Is your TV even HD ready -_- and yes 480p is a form of HD.MrNemesis
Using whose definition? 480p is definitely not a form of HD. It actually falls into the EDTV catagory. HD begins with 720p.
It sounds like you tried to enable 480p when your TV only supports 480i. The i stands for interlaced while the p stands for progressive. You can find a more thorough explanation here. You need to somehow change it back to 480i mode on the wii.
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