What should I do about my tv?

[Light]

Chaps, I need some advice. Here's the deal.

I need to buy a new SD tv, which I will be using for both the wii and the ps2. It needs to support an NTSC signal as both of the aforementioned consoles will be american. However, I don't want an expensive option as I'll really only be using it (for the most part) for a fairly short term.

This is because in november/december I'll be buying an HDTV as I plan to get a ps3 around that time. When that happens, I will connect the wii to the HDTV... but I will still want to keep the SD tv. As I understand it will produce a better picture than the HDTV will when running a ps2. Please correct me if I'm wrong here.

On the other hand... IF the HDTV will still handle the ps2 well enough, then I'll forget this nonsense about buying a new tv. In that case I will hook up the ps2 to my current 14" sd tv (which I'm slightly reluctant to do, but if its the more rational thing to do then so be it) and the wii either to the same tv, or get a component to vga converter (for ?90 or so quid) and put my Acer 1916WS to use. Assuming Twilight Princess and RE4 will run in widescreen and look gorgeous on it.

So there we have it. Ideally I'd prefer holding out on buying an SD tv... mostly because it's just too much of a hassle for a relatively short term experience (getting rid of the monitor, the 14" tv, then getting the new sd tv...), but I don't want to sacrifice any wii or ps2 gaming in the meanwhile either.

Can anyone offer any suggestions as to what I should do? Essentially, I will keep my current set-up if:

- the ps2 will produce a good picture on an HDTV set - will have to be through RGB I'd imagine as most ps2 games won't support component

and

- the wii can play Zelda and RE4 in widescreen in good quality picture on the Acer 1916ws

or

- the wii games will look quite good on my 14" tv.


That's about the size of things. Will appreciate any help.

[EvilBoris]

In my experience, the better quality and newer TV sets are MUCH MUCH better at handling standard definition content than they were.
My TV is now very close to a what a CRT would offer, picture quality wise.
CRTs are still better, but for the sake of having an extra huge box CRT TV in the room I wouldn't bother.

My TV is the WLT68 toshiba

[Light]

Cool. That takes care of point number one then. How should I go about the wii though? Which of the two should I connect it to to get the better picture?

[Kubrick]

will have to be through RGB I'd imagine as most ps2 games won't support component

They don't, especially older ones, but it doesn't really matter since the picture quality with component is comparable to that of RGB SCART for 480i games.

[Sane]

They don't, especially older ones, but it doesn't really matter since the picture quality with component is comparable to that of RGB SCART for 480i games.

Really? Is that a PAL thing? Because I've yet to find a game that won't run through component on my US PS2 and I have around 40 or so.

[EvilBoris]

All games will run through component, and will look idenitcal to RGB.
Not many PS2 games support progressive scan though.

[Light]

All games will run through component, and will look idenitcal to RGB.
Not many PS2 games support progressive scan though.

Oh, didn't know that... thanks!

Any final word on what to plat the wii on... monitor or sdtv?

[MattyD]

You can get a component cable for the Wii so normal Wii and GC games will be fine, but certain Virtual Console games won't work through component.