Wii vga?

[Kit]

Do you think we'll see a vga box for the Wii? I know they announced one a while back but then it all went a bit quiet.

[paul]

Do you think we'll see a vga box for the Wii? I know they announced one a while back but then it all went a bit quiet.

I'm hoping for something along these lines. My LCD only has a VGA and DVI connection, and using Scart makes the Wii look worse than on my CRT.

[Charlie]

These have been out for a while now. Can someone who's used both the offical component cable and official VGA cable comment on how the two compare?

[tom-nook]

These have been out for a while now. Can someone who's used both the offical component cable and official VGA cable comment on how the two compare?

I don't think there is a vga lead at present.

There is an official d-terminal (which you may be confusing with d-sub) cable available in Japan. It's not a vga lead though & is basically just a variant of a component fitted with a different type of connector. As far as I know d-terminal connections are only really found in some Japanese tv's.

It was possible to mod Gamecube d-terminal leads with a vga d-sub connector. However, from experience the only reason you'd really want to do this is if you either wanted to play games on a pc monitor (only prog scans will display) or your tv doesn't have component inputs. It's still just a component signal though and the picture quality is roughly the same.

[Charlie]

Ahh.

[briareos_kerensky]

If you have a NTSC Wii you can buy an XRBG-3, probably the best VGA box around. Unfortunately it doesn't support PAL signals. There are VGA boxes supporting component input, mostly support composite and S-Video, but these models are usually cheap and support very low resolutions (800x600 or less), while the XRBG-3 can scale up to 1600x1200, IIRC.

[smouty]

A vdigi Z3 should work fine. Works OK on my GC, Xbox and PS2.

[KIT786]

There is something called a xcm v-box that lets you connect your Wii to your PC (via usb) to play on your monitor. XCan be found at play-asia (Pal version: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...1ct-43-bs.html NTSC version: http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-13-71-...z9l-43-bs.html)

Also a video of it working can be found here:

http://www.totalconsole.com/servlet/the-190/v-dsh-box-wii-xcm-new/Detail

No idea how good it is though.

[Strolls]

There is something called a xcm v-box that lets you connect your Wii to your PC (via usb) to play on your monitor.

Basically it's a video capture device.

It's a cute idea - and would surely be very useful for magazine reviewers - but for actual play I don't see any advantages over the Vdigi or the X2VGA (which don't require the PC to be switched on in use).

Additionally this would suffer from the same latencies problem as the XRBG, in that the display on the screen would be lagging a fraction of a second behind your joystick (and behind the baddies). Some gamers complain that this is very noticeable and even that it makes games "unplayable".

Before I got a TV with component-in I was looking at the X2VGA2 - I reckon it's the best of the lot. The XRBG-3 offers support of some additional interlaced video modes but at a cost, and the homework I did suggested it had flaws that didn't justify the expense to me.

Honestly, if you've got the space the best thing is a TV with RGB SCART & component inputs. None of the VGA convertors handle a diversity of inputs so well as a telly - the composite ones are crap, obviously, and all the others seem geared towards either progressive or interlaced with drawbacks to the other.

Before Christmas I picked up a 2-year-old 44" DLP for ?320, and I'm sure you could get smaller tellies much cheaper - the current vogue for "hi-def" has dropped a hole in the secondhand market for standard-definition TVs that cost thousands only a couple of years ago (the 44" LG I paid ?320 for had been ?2000 new, for instance).

Stroller.