consoles - best connection to HD TV

[sj33]

Nintendo were never very forward-thinking in that respect though.

They removed RGB from the N64, for example, because apparently so few people used it on the Snes. Never occured to them that by time the N64 came out RGB Scart was more widespread.
Or maybe thet just didn't care.

They seem to think US Wii owners won't want Component dispite CRT pretty much being no-where to be found in stores anymore. Thankfully Mad Catz think differently.

[Strolls]

Outside this rather specialist community it's hardly surprising few used component connections in the UK. The cable ... had/has to be imported ...

The figure I cited of "only 1%" Gamecube owners using the component cable was in the US. I think component is more common on tellies there? And the component cable was more widely available?

Stroller.

[fallenangle]

Yes I realised that but if only 1% of US owners used it just imagine the even smaller percentage in the UK/EU. It makes you wonder why they initially included the digital output on PAL GCs at all and why, unlike the XBox/PS2, it was separate from the main connection socket anyway.

[sj33]

It's actually even wierder than that - Component is not digital! It's analogue.
They achieve Component from the Digital AV by putting a Digital-to-Analogue converter in the GC Component cable itself (that's why there were never any third party ones).

So the inclusion of Digital AV on the GC at all, when there was no digital video cable, is bizzare. The PS2 and XBox had no Digital AV, they just output Component over the Analog AV... I assume the GC's Analog AV couldn't do it for some reason so they had to use the Digital AV.

[fallenangle]

I was going to mention that I thought that component was analogue system. I should have realised but I didn't know the Nintendo component cable did a conversion job too. Thanks for the education even if all it does is help confirm that, yes, Nintendo do make some very bizarre decisions.

[Strolls]

Yes I realised that but if only 1% of US owners used it just imagine the even smaller percentage in the UK/EU.

Ah, ok. My apologies - I wasn't sure if you realised. I thought you meant "no wonder it was only 1% in the UK".

I swear I'm gonna find one of my customers with an Xbox 360 plugged into a 50" plasma by compo****e one of these days soon.

Stroller.

[fallenangle]

I've not heard about what the 'unknowledgeable' are doing with their XB360s but with other platforms I have come across people on some forums who have obviously been using RF aerial lead connections for years, even on TVs with RGB SCART options. They are (usually) amazed by the IQ improvement when gently persuaded as to the error of their ways.