Nintendo WII and HDMI cable

aliEnRIK

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

The evidence is already out there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo

Just because your eyesight and hearing is shot at, doesnt mean MINE is

gjchester

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

Learn this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics
then we'll talk

If your going to quote Wikipedia get an appropriate subject.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_wire

Whilst genereally it says about the same, that most people cannot hear much of a difference and more expensive cables may not make any difference to your setup it also says

" Resistance is the property which has the most effect on speaker wire performance"

and

"Depending on the hearing ability of the listener, this resistance begins to have an audible effect when the resistance exceeds 5% of the speaker's impedance."

More resistance, less signal to get to the reciever (be it a speaker or a TV) and the more work done to amplify or correct the signal. The Wii Outputs COMPONENT which is ANALOG in it's form and subject to degradation from poor quality cable.

HDMI is digital but subject to data loss, you won't get corruption of signal as it's just on or off's but if the signal drops too much due to resistance then 1's seem like 0's and the signal will be either dropped by the electronics, or some form of error correction done. Either way you get interference to the signal, usually glitches but in a worst case the copy protection built into the HDMP-CP protocol will decide you cannot watch the signal as it can't authenticate all the devices in the chaim.

The question remains is your equipment (both electronic and your eye's and ears) good enough to see and degradation.

d900

streather wrote: »

Sorry for nitpicking but HDMI cables use digital signals, it doesn't really matter how much you spend on one the resulting picture will be identical, the expensive cables are just manufacturers getting extra money from you because cables that use analogue signals used to be better if you spent more on them.

i agree. But it should be understood over a long distance it is better to use a higher quality HDMI cable. Over a short distance anything will do.

aliEnRIK

d900 wrote: »

i agree. But it should be understood over a long distance it is better to use a higher quality HDMI cable. Over a short distance anything will do.

I have short distances (2m and under), and it DOES effect the quality of the picture

aliEnRIK

TorrestheGreat wrote: »

Do you believe in astrology, too?

I believe in my eyesight

fixx

BargainGalore wrote: »

roddydogs Step1
First, you must figure out If your TV has component video inputs. This is a set of five cables (red, blue and green for video and red and white for audio) and will give you the best picture on an hdtv

Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but are the red and white audio cables the same as left and right audio in?

I have a new HDTV i want to connect my wii to - it definitely has component video inputs, and it has a pair of inputs labelled "Audio In L", "...R" - I'm hoping this means I can use the component option above?!

Thanks for any help

aliEnRIK

fixx wrote: »

Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but are the red and white audio cables the same as left and right audio in?

I have a new HDTV i want to connect my wii to - it definitely has component video inputs, and it has a pair of inputs labelled "Audio In L", "...R" - I'm hoping this means I can use the component option above?!

Thanks for any help

Yes they are
(Reds 'RIGHT' though)

fixx

Yay, thank you! I want to get the best out of my new TV(last expensive purchase i'm allowed to make for a while!).

So I can plug in my DVD player via HDMI, Wii via component, and Tiscali box only through SCART - that should all work ok

Much better than my old TV where they've all conneted via 2 scart sockets (one with a splitter) :P

aliEnRIK

Sounds ok to me

UncleJaysus

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I have short distances (2m and under), and it DOES effect the quality of the picture

When talking about HDMI (or DVI-D, or anything purely digital) it is one hundred per cent impossible for the actual quality of the picture to be affected by the quality of the cable.

The only reason that exists to purchase high quality HDMI cables, is when you want to safeguard against dropped information, which results in missing blocks of image, not lower image quality.

Dropped digital info only really happens over long distances (when you start approaching 10 metres) and when you're dealing with 1080p imagery, where the signal becomes weaker and degraded in transit and the 'ones and zeros' become unreadable to the receiving device (TV).

When talking about short distances (in this case 2 metres or under) any cable will safely deliver the digital 'ones and zeros' to the TV without any dropped information (I have cheap £10 cables that perform flawlessly at this distance).

So, looking at this logically, it doesn't matter how expensive the cable, they're all delivering the same raw code to the TV. So, the TV can't help but display the same quality picture every time, because it's getting exactly the same information from each.