Playing Wii On an HD TV

Component cables. Best purchase I made for my Wii :P

Get component cables and set it for 480p and widescreen.

Playing a Wii game on 720p TV would be the same effect as if you were playing a Xbox 360/PS3 game on a 1080p TV. It looks ugly.....and blurry.ShadowDeathX

Most Graphics of the year awards are on the HD consoles. you Mad?

Playing a Wii game on 720p TV would be the same effect as if you were playing a Xbox 360/PS3 game on a 1080p TV. It looks ugly.....and blurry.ShadowDeathX

The upscaling is there, but when I play 360/PS3 games on my 1080p TV, they still look good.

We play Wii games on a 32" 720p TV. They look okay, pehaps a bit blurry if I take the time to stare long and hard close up. Good enough for me.

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]Playing a Wii game on 720p TV would be the same effect as if you were playing a Xbox 360/PS3 game on a 1080p TV. It looks ugly.....and blurry.killu-later

Most Graphics of the year awards are on the HD consoles. you Mad?

[QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]Playing a Wii game on 720p TV would be the same effect as if you were playing a Xbox 360/PS3 game on a 1080p TV. It looks ugly.....and blurry.lundy86_4

The upscaling is there, but when I play 360/PS3 games on my 1080p TV, they still look good.

*sigh*

Looks like I'll be picking up some component cables tomorrow.

I have a 42" HDTV and the game looks good but bad at the same time. So many jaggies! :cry:

Unfortunately, the Wii and an HD TV are not the best of combinations as the Wii is not an HD system. But it's not too bad.

Do you have the component cables for the 480 sigal? It does make a slight difference. My son has his hooked to a 32in Samsung and it does look slightly better with the component HD hookups.

This is what SSBB looks like on our old 32" 720p TV using regular composite. It'll probably look better with component RGB.

Alright, thanks you guys. Also, I heard a female farts in this game? Is that true?Brodomski

Unfortunately, the Wii and an HD TV are not the best of combinations as the Wii is not an HD system. But it's not too bad.

MathMattS

It depends on the tv. I'm playing Twilight Princess at the moment and I was surprised at how good it looks. Also, for some odd reason--and from my experience--wii/gamecube/etc tend to favor Plasma tvs over lcds.

Definetely get component cables. That gets rid of the muddy feeling you get in 480i.

Another thing is the TV. I'm playing on a 65' TV and it looks better than what it did on my 42' BRAVIA. I'd imagine some TVs have software to fix up a lot of the problems with SDTV sources.

galaxy 1 and 2 are the only games that look passable on a hd display, imo.MFDOOM1983

No way! I've testing out some of my gamecube games--THEY look good. If anybody played older console games dating back to the nes, they won't have a problem with the image.

I kinda don't care. It's the Wii, I'm not expecting anything.

[QUOTE="MathMattS"]

Unfortunately, the Wii and an HD TV are not the best of combinations as the Wii is not an HD system. But it's not too bad.

PSP107

Well, here's a sample of what PS2 games look like on a 1080p HDTV (aka my 24" monitor) . I'm also using regular composite cables. I probably should've set my camera to sports mode. Still looks okay to me. That's why I refuse to get rid of my PS2.

[QUOTE="PSP107"][QUOTE="MathMattS"]

Unfortunately, the Wii and an HD TV are not the best of combinations as the Wii is not an HD system. But it's not too bad.

jun_aka_pekto

Well, here's a sample of what PS2 games look like on a 1080p HDTV (aka my 24" monitor) . I'm also using regular composite cables. I probably should've set my camera to sports mode. Still looks okay to me. That's why I refuse to get rid of my PS2.

My only problem is the 4:3 aspect ratio for a lot of games. For Twilight Princess I'm using the option that gradually stretches the image, and it works quite well. Not all games cater to this though and I can't seem to find an option on my tv that turns those grey bars, black.

*sigh*

Looks like I'll be picking up some component cables tomorrow.

PatchMaster

i got mine of ebay for like $3

but...i doubt you wanna wait for them to come in the mail....so that'll be like $20+ in the store, lol...retail stores rip people off so bad with HDMI and component cables

[QUOTE="MFDOOM1983"]galaxy 1 and 2 are the only games that look passable on a hd display, imo.Heirren

No way! I've testing out some of my gamecube games--THEY look good. If anybody played older console games dating back to the nes, they won't have a problem with the image.

[QUOTE="Merex760"][QUOTE="ShadowDeathX"]Playing a Wii game on 720p TV would be the same effect as if you were playing a Xbox 360/PS3 game on a 1080p TV. It looks ugly.....and blurry.ShadowDeathX

What are you talking about? Black empty space? I'm playing InFamous 2 (720p game) on my 1080p native LCD monitor and I'm not seeing any black empty space:?

Component cables. Best purchase I made for my Wii :P

lundy86_4

Wii over component on my 600Hz Viera plasma looks fantastic. I hear LCD makes it look like crap though.foxhound_fox

Thats what happens when you mix an HDTV with an non-HD console.

Wii looks horrible on HDTV because the Wii it is not a HD console but a SD console....like PS2/GC.If you want good picture for Wii games just play Wii on SDTV or on very small HDTV 21".

Wii over component on my 600Hz Viera plasma looks fantastic. I hear LCD makes it look like crap though.foxhound_fox

LCD panels have outclassed plasma for the past two years or so.

Though if you actually care about picture quality, I'd suggest going projection.

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The issue with Wii graphics on the best-of-the-best displays is that there's simply a lack of "information" to fill the picture. It's like taking a small JPEG and stretching it to fill your entire computer screen, it doesn't work. As TVs get bigger and bigger (Best Buy has a 42" for $200 on Black Friday) that becomes more of a problem.

There is A TON more data and detail in the 720p consoles and 1080p PCs out there, and because of that, when you "stretch" that image to fill a bigger screen, it looks crisper. Your "HD" consoles also have some amount of anti-aliasing and anisiostrophic filtering, which the Wii doesn't do, which means the "jaggies" and distant textures qualities create issues.

I have a 32" sony bravia. My wii games look awesome on it with widescreen. I use component cables also. Gamecube games on my wii with component cable look horrible. Gamecube games actually look better on gamecube with s-video.

My only problem is the 4:3 aspect ratio for a lot of games. For Twilight Princess I'm using the option that gradually stretches the image, and it works quite well. Not all games cater to this though and I can't seem to find an option on my tv that turns those grey bars, black.

Heirren

I think most TV's nowadays will automatically stretch the image to fill the screen although it may look somewhat flat as shown with both the Wii and PS2 images I posted. It's more pronounced with the FIFA 09 PS2 image though. The players look stumpy rather than athletic. Oh well. I don't mind. We got rid of our CRT TVs. Plus, I'll get my kid's PS3 handed down to me whenever the new PS4 comes out.