Archive for July 28th, 2007
Making the most out of non-HDTV Wii
My Nintendo Wii is connected to my TV tuner on my PC. This means I get to play my Wii in my room, on my 19″ LCD monitor. The TV tuner isn’t a HDTV one, so it only has composite (RCA) and S-Video inputs. Nintendo only bundles composite video cables, and initially, only sold component (HDTV) cables. Over the past months, third-party S-Video cables appeared.
I got hold of an S-Video cable today, and am pleased to report that there is quite an improvement in image quality over the composite cable. Of course, it won’t be HDTV-quality (which, by the way, is only 480p on the Wii), but it’s an improvement nonetheless. And, at SGD20 (~USD13), is much cheaper than buying a HDTV tuner or HDTV.
Click here to compare the image quality of composite versus S-Video cable on the Wii.