Wii component cables and tv coverage.

stigweard

I picked up some Wii component cables so I could use what few widescreen titles there are properly on my TV. The issue I am having is there is a ~.5" black border around the screen instead of covering to the edge like it should. Is this normal or did I mess something up / have crappy cables?

Eeveelution

Random question. Did you switch the resolution in the wii menu?

Also some games only have menus in the widescreen, but the rest of the game is standard. Mario Party was that way.

DHS Odium

It's normal. The Wii's 16:9 is closer to like 14:9 or something. Not 4:3, still sorta widescreen, but black borders. Yes, it's fucking stupid.

Barrakketh

DHS Odium wrote: »

It's normal. The Wii's 16:9 is closer to like 14:9 or something. Not 4:3, still sorta widescreen, but black borders. Yes, it's fucking stupid.

No, that's not normal. It uses 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (which basically means it uses rectangular pixels instead of square ones), and if your TV isn't displaying that correctly then the issue is with the TV.

DHS Odium

I've never heard of anyone's Wii completely filling the entire 16:9 without any black borders. This comes from using my Wii with component on 4 different HDTVs. As well as seeing other peoples Wiis, confirmation from other forumers, and another forumer who just got a Wii asking this very same question in another thread.

If you do a google search, you will see tons of people with the same issue. Part of the issue is a massive underscan.

Barrakketh

It fills my Samsung DLP that I bought back in either 2006 or 2007 without a problem. I'd say that either the problematic TV sucks at autodetecting the format that it's supposed to use or you need to change the format for the input that your Wii is connected to. It's also worked fine on a cheap RCA set from Wal-Mart (not my TV) and also a Vizio that a friend of mine owns (when I visited him after he bought it I had to set his 360 to actually output HD since he left it at 480p).

DHS Odium

Trsut me, this is a known problem. Most early games had severe underscanning built-in. This isn't a TV settings issue. Yes, it can be mitigated if you have certain scaling options, but the fault actually lies with most games. Newer games do fill the whole screen, but many don't.

stigweard

I did set it to widescreen in the wii options, but even the main wii screen does it. I'm using the component on some crappy multi connection cable with the tv on natural mode. None of the overscan modes fixes the problem (too much overscan). It is a bottom end Toshiba 26" 720p lcd tv (26AV502P iirc), it I discounted that because every other console / video player I've tried on it has worked properly.

DHS Odium

Again, stop worrying about it. It's the Wii. The menu, and most games will be like that. It appears a few games might fill the entire space, but more often than not, you'll have those black boarders around everything.

Scrublet

Barrakketh wrote: »

It fills my Samsung DLP that I bought back in either 2006 or 2007 without a problem. I'd say that either the problematic TV sucks at autodetecting the format that it's supposed to use or you need to change the format for the input that your Wii is connected to. It's also worked fine on a cheap RCA set from Wal-Mart (not my TV) and also a Vizio that a friend of mine owns (when I visited him after he bought it I had to set his 360 to actually output HD since he left it at 480p).

Oddly enough, my old RCA DLP also had no problem. However my new Pioneer Plasma, which blows away damn near any TV, DOES have the tiny black bars on the side. There's plenty of documentation out there that this is a Wii problem.