Any comparison pics of 480i and 480p.

[NJ5]

Sky Render said:
@wiiforever

A/V (aka. composite) are the standard RCA cables you find with just about every TV-based device. They're the yellow, white, and red cables you refer to. The yellow is video, red and white are right and left channel audio.

S-Video is a wider plug, and looks a bit like a second-generation keyboard plug (ie. small and round, but still a bit bigger than an RCA plug).

Component is a 3-cable video feed: Y, Cb, Cr (or black/white, blue chroma, red chroma). They're all shaped like standard RCA cable plugs, but are colored green, blue, and bright red respectively.

Just to add that Wii's component cables also include two more cables for audio.

Summing up:

Composite cables: 1 video connector and 2 audio connectors (3 in total).

Component cables: 3 video connectors and 2 audio connectors (5 in total).

Naraku_Diabolos said:

BenKenobi88 said:
Now I wish I had an HDTV hehe. I got the component cable because I play the Wii more often at my friend's house than mine...but I still haven't played Metroid or Zelda with progressive scan.

Trust me, it will look like crap. When I played Endless Ocean (I think my friend needed to decrease the sharpness on his Samsung HDTV), the character models were pixelated. It looked horrible, like a PS2 in HD. Tried Galaxy and it was the same thing.

When I use the component cables without switching to 480p, the picture is more clear. I can't do that on my HDTV in my basement; it doesn't run progressive scan. But the component cables make a really good picture in just 480i, but crappy in 480p.

That's if you have a crappy TV which can't upscale 480p properly, don't blame the Wii or the cables for it.