Resident Evil 4 in my monitor with vga cable

Ah, yes, sounds like a good enough reason to me. I'm not too familiar with how Mac monitors work (aside from the fact that they are damn sexy in use).

 

Isn't the GC Component cable $29.99? I bought one recently... can't exactly remember what it costed.

 

About that, yes. However, when compared to the fac tI bought a PS2 one for £3 including shipping it made me wodner at why the Gamecube one was so pricey....

 

GC component really isn't that expensive. The PS2 one costs $20 at retail, the Xbox one costs $20 at retail, and the GC one costs $35 at Lik-Sang, so probably $30 at retail. And I reckon, by looking at the build quality of the cable, it's better than its PS2/Xbox counterparts. These are all the official cables, btw.

 

I cant actually buy any component cables "retail" as local retailers dont seem to stock or know what component cables are :| I ordered my PS2 component cable through a friend and do believe it is not official (it came with no box but bares no Sony markings....it was firsthand, my friend jsut removed the box so as to fit it in the padded envelope he had).


I still dont understand why the cables are so expensive though.....It doesnt make any sense to me...but I dont understand the technological side behind it, I guess.

 

Theres no real technology behind component cables for PS2, it should be cheaper than a RGB SCART cable because it uses the same pins and requires RCA jacks instead of a moreso obscure SCART connector. The reason why these mentioned GC cables are more expensive is because all Japanese products are over priced. Yes, the GC cable has a DAC but that's not going to drive the price up $20.

 

And the Gamecube cable cannot be purchased retail; it was only available from Nintendo's site (they are now sold out). The only ways of obtaining one now are places like Lik-Sang that ordered batches or sell third-party cables, or on eBay.

 

640x480 is full screen,,,but... try you mac to 640x480 show in you cinema display, you will know what i say.

 

It's probably good quality cable too, which is worth the extra price, and official cables are always hella expensive. The Sony RGB SCART cable is 45 Euro (!!!), whereas you can get an unofficial one for less than a tenner.

And SCART connectors aren't really that obscure at all - there must be hundreds of millions of SCART (and Japanese 21-pin) TVs around the world by this stage. They are, however, a damn sight more complicated and expensive to make than RCA jacks.

Wow, your local shops must suck even worse than mine! My local Game sells component cables for the PS2, xbox, and possibly even GC! Though all my TVs are 21" and under, and old, so it's RGB all the way for me :smt023

 

I asked my local GAME store if they had any PS2 or Gamecube component leads and the dude said "Ofcourse we do" and then showed me a bunch of standard AV leads ¬_¬

 

Do TVs over there even have component inputs? I was under the impression that your SCART was the equivalent of our component?

Oh, this video signal stuff is so overwhelming, I can never keep it straight. Thank goodness for the blessed simplicity of RF!

 

Yes yes... but my Cinema is wide screen, and if the image is resized to 640x480, maybe distord, u know?

In the future game consoles this could be a nice option because probably supports 720p or 1080i.

But, really I'm not sure if with the ADC-VGA conversion box I will see the GC in my TFT, if this works, I will buy it!!! U know where I can get the conversion box in an used price?

Thx.

 

you only can do 480P in cinema display, because 720P and 1080i did not standed sync

use this you can no need mod cable to vga

 

They're fucking 'tards! There's actually GAME BRANDED component cables, and they say big "COMPONENT CABLE" on the front of them. Morons.

It's only higher end TVs, mainly progressive scan ones, and LCD and Plasma sets were the bastards are too lazy to localise them for Europe and don't put any RGB SCART inputs on them! Aarrgh! -_-

Pretty much all CRT TVs have RGB SCART inputs here - it's pretty much mandatory to have at least one SCART socket since the late 90s, and many good brand TVs have had them since the mid 80s (even moreso on bigger sets). If you go past 28" you're gonna get at least 3 sockets, and at least one (if not all) will even do s-video (which isn't too common here) or NTSC! I think it's pretty much law to sell sets with SCART sockets now - they've made it this way to try and standardise things, since all digital TV tuners here also have SCART sockets (and usually no other outputs, except maybe component on better ones), and the same goes for VCRs and DVD players.

SCART isn't the same as your component. Component is Y/Pb/Pr (or whatever), where the picture's made up from colour difference (y=luminance; Pb = Blue-luminance; Pr = Red-luminance). It's kinda a funky way of doing things, but I think it's the native colour format of MPEG video and most broadcast digital video.

SCART connections can carry RGB (with comp. sync.), bi-directional composite video, bi-directional stereo audio, occasionally s-video, pins for auto AV switching, and some extra spare pins which some VCRs use for timer control and other funky things. But the important part is RGB, which is the most elementary way of transmitting analogue video, therefore the best ^_^. However it's not designed for anything but 576i or 480i standard definition TV, unfortunately.

 

I thought some SCART TVs took component over SCART? Via RGB pins of course, some high end monitors are autosensing.

 

Thx Hi_Ricky.

 

Hey Hi_Ricky, again I ask you about the GC in a Cinema 23"... See this pic and tell me how I will see the games in the monitor.

A) At full screen with the image resized but in 640x480.
B) At 640x480 real mode.




Thx.


Maybe with Nintendo "Revolution" this will be a good choice because this will supports hdtv.

 

I've never heard of this being done, unless you're getting confused by the fact that RGB can be referred to component as well.

As I said a lot of high-end LCD and Plasma monitors here don't have SCART at all. The EBA (European Broadcasting Union) and some other guys have recently set the standard here for component HDTV connections, and it's HDMI connectors with HDCP support. Besides that there's component on 3 RCA plugs, which up until now seemed to be most common, but stuff that uses this generally only does standard definition 480/576 line video, or prog. scan if you're lucky.

Besides these, and BNC cables if you're really hard-core, I don't think there's anything else.