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Are they worth it? My TV arealdy runs at 480i without them, is it worth $35 to run 480p?

yea it enhances the graphics i think to 1080 if im not mistaking. just buy them from ebay

You are very mistaken.

Component cables or any other cables do NOT increase lines of resolution.

The Wii outputs 480p resolution..cables will not turn that into 1080.

For the original poster, simply put, component WILL make a huge difference over your standard AV jacks. Component cables will not CREATE a higher resolution...the output of the Wii is still 480, component cables seperate the color streams (R,G,B) into individual cables allowing for better clarity and color space once arriving at your monitor.

Components are 19 bucks at Walmart. A no-brain investment if you have an EDTV or HDTV. (Which you alluded to having)...buy them!

Yes but the question is, does your TV support 480p. It's very rare to find a TV that runs 480p without it being HD ready. Most companies find it a waste of time to create a 480p TV when they could just make a 720p TV. If your TV is a HD TV then they are worth it.

I know you seem likea nice guy but I was seriously LMAO there. 1080? Not a chance my friend. The Wii only does 480, not 720 and definitely not 1080. The component cables just cause all the pixels to load at once.

thanx for the responses

Ya i had the same question too so thanx everyone. I think I might buy them.

Progressive scan always helps in games where there is a lot of motion. I personally don't see that great of a difference between 480i/480p on the Wii as compared to 480i/1080p on my PS3, but I never expected it to.

Actually it's quite the contrary sc7. For example, most people find that watching sports on TV is much more comfortable in interlace mode because the FPS is double so it can cope with the fast speeds of football, soccer and baseball, but for movies progressive is always better

FPS is double on TV? how many frames are we talking here? lol

going off of memory, i think tv broadcasts and movies output at 25FPS max. going with progressive or interlaced doesnt make a difference unless you have digital or HD cable tv.

Movies are 23/24/25 FPS
NTSCi (or PAL60i) is 60 FPS
NTSCp (or PAL60p) is 30 FPS
PALi is 50 FPS
PALp is 25 FPS


for whatever reason you can get televisions that run at 120 FPS, but I can't imagine where it gets the extra 60 frames from

Yes, the FPS is double, but the interlaced with fast moving objects sometimes causes distortion. I don't really know that much about it though, as I run my TV in 1080i all the time, and games in 1080p/720p.

My TV runs on 100Hz but that never really became the standard anywhere

Aftermarket cables from quality 3rd parties can be found for 20$ at some retailers. If you really want to go cheap there are component cables available for under 10$.

The picture resolution of component at 480i will be nearly equal to an svideo connection. They both have the same Luma signal type. The color resolution of the component cable is higher but 90% of the details are in the Luma portion so even a trained eye would have a hard time to find the difference.

However the difference between the included Composite cables and SVideo/Component is huge. If you can switch I suggest you do so.

Contrary to what someone posted earlier the signal over component cable is not broken into Red Green and Blue. One cable is the black and white portion of the picture while the other two contain enough information to create three seperate color channels. The "blue" cable is actually carrying the difference between the B&W part of the picture and the true blue signal while the "red" carries the difference between B&W and red. Using simple electronic math you can extract the green color from the combination.

This page shows the difference between YCBCR component video and RGB
http://www.webkinesia.com/games/vcompress2.php

The top of the two images shows the original picture. The next three are the signals carried by each "wire"