More Prog Scan Questions

[Unwell Cat]

Any recommend a 28inch TV which does progressive scan as well ? I want to hook my gamecube up to it. Secondly, where can I buy the prog scan cables over here and will I have to use my US cube or can I use my UK one ? Thirdly, I've seen prog scan DVD players, can I plug my cube into these and then output in prog scan to a standard TV ?

Any help appreciated

[Salsa Party Animal]

You will need US/Jap gamecube or NTSC XBOX or Chipped XBOX for progressive scan in games. I believe PS2 is starting to support progressive scan PAL.

Toshiba make good TV for progressive scan. So have a word with Hitcher or Minor Willly for info.

[Unwell Cat]

Anyone know if this Telly is any good, it looks to have everything I need ?
Toshiba 28ZD26P.

[Salsa Party Animal]

28ZD26 http://www.home-entertainment.toshib...sumer/home.nsf

Is the one you should look at

[mid]

Curiously, amongst the cheapest prog scan tellies out there are Tosh's 42-inch rear-projection monsters; even Comet do one for ?1299.

[fuzzybee]

Anyone know if this Telly is any good, it looks to have everything I need ?
Toshiba 28ZD26P.

It's a very fine tv for the money and no you cannot connect your GC to a prog scan dvd player, no dvd player i know of has a component input/passthrough.
As for where to get the official jap cable try Lik-Sang, just remember not all GC games support prog scan(480p) You can actually get a pal GC to display a ntsc 480p image via a freeloader and a ntsc compatible game, or according to some posters on the AV forum you can

[Unwell Cat]

Now I'm a little confused. The Gamecube Prog scan cable has three inputs which appear to be phono connectors but looking at the toshiba telly it has 5 inputs for Prog scan which appear to be BNC. Am I missing something ?

[Hitcher]

Now I'm a little confused. The Gamecube Prog scan cable has three inputs which appear to be phono connectors but looking at the toshiba telly it has 5 inputs for Prog scan which appear to be BNC. Am I missing something ?

The 3 GC phono connectors are the component cables, you'll need to use a normal AV lead plugged into the GC as well to run the audio to the TV - that's why there's 5 inputs on the TV.

I'd use your US GC if I was you.

I have the Toshiba 28ZD26P and use progressive scan for my modded Xbox and US GC and it's excellent, there is a problem with the GC picture tearing but it's easily fixed and for free.

See this link for more info - http://www.avforums.com/forums/showt...ogressive+scan

[mid]

Just to be clear, on component cables you've got three video cables and two audio ones. If they want BNC rather than phono then you'll just need converters to attach to them. It sounds like you're saying your GC component lead doesn't have audio connections though; is that right?

[Unwell Cat]

I've obviously got a cable without the two audio connections so I guess I'll send it back for one that has the three inputs + the two audios. Any recommendations on where to get one ? The Lik-Sang site just has the cable with the three connectors as far as I can tell.

[mid]

They aren't yellow, red and white are they? That sounds suspiciously like a composite cable not a component one...

[Hitcher]

Bit of confusion to clear up regarding the GC I think.


To use the progressive scan feature you will need the following -

1x GC component cable (3 outputs - red/blue/green?) that plugs into the Digital Out on the GC.

1x GC AV/composite cable (3 outputs - yellow/video [not used], red/right audio and white/left audio [needed]) that plugs into the normal AV Out on the GC.

[Unwell Cat]

Thanks Hitcher that makes it all clear.

[mid]

Aaah, I see. Thanks for that. You learn something new every day...

[Hitcher]

Here's a useful site that lists what games support 480p - http://www.hdtvarcade.com/gamecubelist.htm