Suitable Television for Wii?

I wondered if anyone had experience with TVs that work well with the Wii? Basically, the requirements are really slim:

-Support component inputs
-Supports at least the 480p resolution (is EDTV the term for that?)
-Should be widescreen/have a 16:9 ratio (I think some games support 4:3 only but the majority seem to be fine with 16:9)


My Wii looks awful on my Hitachi 53UWX10BA through component. But granted, so do the Xbox 360 and PS3 because it's a rather old television that supports 540p/1080i max. I'm thinking about replacing that television with something nicer, but that's mainly for the 360 and PS3's sake.

I have an old Sony PVM 2030 which is a "professional grade" (oh, how fancy!) monitor used back in the day by television studios and as medical monitors (I see some on sale for medical purposes on eBay still, don't know if anyone in the field actually uses them though). For gaming purposes it has inputs for analog RGB so it's great for making old systems look awesome, but the S-Video support on it is really good too. I ran the Wii through S-Video on this television and it looked quite a bit better than the Hitachi HD/EDTV, even though it was running at 480i opposed to 480p.

So does anyone run their Wii through a cheaper, smaller television with 480p support? Are there any solid recommendations (considering both price and picture quality)? Thanks for any help, it's appreciated!

Any LCD or Plasma HDTV with VGA = RGBHV = PC port.

All you'll need is this cable: http://cgi.ebay.com/PS3-Wii-VGA-TV-P...mZ170437944696

Interesting, are there any games that don't work through the VGA cable? It seems like those that don't support 480p might have trouble.

Has anyone had experience with older Sony Wegas like this one?
http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/ele/1569062323.html

I know of at least three relatives with awesome Panasonic Plasma HDTV sets. All of them are good with pretty much anything you put on them.

If you're looking for the very best solution for Wii/PS3/360/Dreamcast then I'd go with a modern LCD/Plasma. Everything will look absolutely perfect - well, except retro games.

I am not sure if there are any Wii games that don't support 480p. The games by Nintendo all do, both the ones for GameCube and the ones for Wii.

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Originally Posted by mugenmidget

Interesting, are there any games that don't work through the VGA cable? It seems like those that don't support 480p might have trouble.

Has anyone had experience with older Sony Wegas like this one?
http://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/ele/1569062323.html

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That looks same/similar to my old Tv which now has MD1/32x and SMS2 (hooked up via scart-component converter), PS1, N64, SNES and Saturn hooked up via S-video + DVD + settop box and with these it is a great TV. I used to have the XBOX and XBOX360 hooked up to it and it was fine with these as well.

The Wii looks pretty good on our ~5 yar old Sanyo 27" flat CRT SDTV via component video, especially in anamorphic mode. (scanlines look nice compressed -just bad for splitscreen games due to the small viewing size)

It also looked fine on our VGA monitors in 480p (via a YPbPr to VGA adaptor, so probably not exactly as good as straight VGA, but probably not far off -if noticable at all), it also looks great on our 720p rated ~30" Sanyo LCD. (1360x769 native)

The difference between 480i and 480p is noticable, but less so when comparing anamorphic IMO. (on a good CRT via component video -or possible RGB SCART -S-video, let alone composite are another story -S-video is OK, but composite tends to have a lot of bleeding or at least significnat dot crawl on better sets)

Unless they're using crappy transcoders for one compared to the other, YPbPr and VGA should be pretty much identical. (and YPbPr seems to be more common on HD sets and VGA -our Sanyo has both though -albeit VGA is monopolized by my dad's PC as it's acting as the monitor -VGA seems to give a better picture than DVI/HDMI for soem reason -I think HDMI seems to want to limit it to 1280x720 when VGA allows the native 1360x768 -and higher, which would be interpolated/down converted by the video scaler)

I say just get any half decent CRT that supports Component. I've used the Wii on a 32in flatscreen CRT via Component and it looked wonderful, even though it was interlaced (And personally, I find it hard to tell the difference on a CRT unless you are looking at something with very fine detail).

Again, it would be preferable to have anamorphic support at least. 480p is noticable though, especially in some games. (some seem to not be tuned towards a 480i mode at all, unlike many GC games)

Also note that many VC games run in the true 240p resolution (with wii in 480i at least), so that's a bonus of using an SD CRT. (that is, if you care about VC games)