Huh? For losers? Most people watch DVDs on anything that will play them. Most people watch with the Composite and Stero Audio connections. That's technically pretty shitty, but it's still the same movie. I watch my movies that way. I know I could use component on that HDTV, even do 480p. The fact is, I don't give a shit about it. Most people aren't concerned with movie picture and sound quality. Afterall, at the movies they treat the film like shit and it shows on the screen.
In the UK we have RGB as standard so in most peoples cases they never had a bad picture to complain about DVD may have drove PS2 sales, but now its irrelevant as far as Wii goes. Anyone who wants to ever watch a DVD already has a player of some sort.
Heh, well here in the US for whatever retarded reason it wasn't until HDTVs and LCDs that we started to get any form of RGB input. Nowdays you can pickup HDTVs that can handle PAL as well as RGB, even some have SCART sockets. The main reason I would have liked to have RGB is JAMMA boards. Composite never looked so shitty till you try hooking up an arcade board through it!
I never understood why they developed RGB component seperately from RGBHV which is essentialy the same D-Sub/VGA layout, having two extra wires (BNC or RCA) for Horizontal and Vertical Sync. Many TVs support VGA of course, but RGBHV to VGA and vice versa is a VERY simple wire conversion compared to RGB component to VGA Nintendo isn't going to release an official VGA cable probably anyway, damn. At least even 15khz games on the Wii, that don't support 480p will be outputed from the same video outport (unlike the gamecube mess) , let's just hope they ll play nicely on a VGA-standard PC monitor? or wont they? I have an LCD LG screen, so any info relating to 15khz + LCD monitors would be appreciated! I have a bad feeling i ll be needing a scan doubler O_O PS: Will I be needing one of these? http://www.converters.tv/products/converters/rgb_converters/77.html
I don't think ANYONE understand why they made the mess they did. Why are we all screwwing around with Composite and S-Video all this time when RGB has always been around... They did eventually come out with Component video but that doesn't make hooking up arcade games any easier! Barcode, I'd just say its safe to assume you're screwwed and whatever is the most inconvient scenario is what will happen.
Hell, I live in a tiny apartment and I have plenty of space for the thing. I'm not sure I'd want to play DVD's on the Wii anyway....how good a transport could that thing possibly be? What kind of AV furniture do you have? I've got a $100 thing from Ikea and it's presently holding 6 systems and my Home Theater gear, neatly, with plenty of room left for the microscopic Wii.
What ever happened to the rumoured £20 add-on that would allow playback of DVD movies? Has this been officially put to its proverbial bed now, or could it still be possible through a third-party device? While the lack of such a feature won't affect my decision to buy a Wii before any other "next-gen" console (yes, I regard the Wii to be just as worthy of this branding as the 360 or PS3 - despite what Nintendo has said to the contrary), it would still be more than welcome. Fingers crossed...
uncross your fingers before you get cramped. If the drive doesnt support UDF natively, then there's no chance of it playing DVD video movies, just as the cube. (Even assuming the mpeg2 decoding crap would be processed elsewhere and not on an mpeg2 dedicated chip)
