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Wii games on an HDTV (potentially solved)
Artreus
I'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
I'm a wizardAnd that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
So I have a Wii and a 42" Insignia brand HDTV.
It has mostly seen use on an old SDTV, but I hooked it up to the HDTV recently in order to play Xenoblade Chronicles. It looked awful. Incredibly jaggy, muddy texture, etc.
Which makes sense, it is a wii game, but it still looked worse than I knew it could look. So I went out and got some component cables. I honestly can't see much of a difference between the two.
A few days ago, I took the wii over to my lady's house and hooked it up to her 42" Vizio. It looked dramatically better on her television. Still looks like a several year old wii game, but had a much clearer image and less jagginess. My tv had been stretching the signal, while hers was displayed with letterboxes on the sides. I brought it back to my house and made the letterboxes show up on my tv, since I thought the stretching was causing the problems. It did not really fix it.
Somebody over in SE suggested that her TV just has a better upscaler in it. Since the Wii is non-HD, it needs upscaling to display on an HDTV, and will often look worse than it did on an old SDTV.
I googled around a bit and I saw that you could buy an external upscaler. So I am thinking of that. But I wanted the tech forum's opinion on this thing.
I don't have any screenshots handy, I'm just 90% sure it actually did look way better on her tv and I was not just imagining it, so this could totally be a thing, and am wondering if the sort of external upscaler you could buy would be similar to whatever wizardry is going on in that other TV.
It is certainly playable, but if I am going to pick up the Last Story and whatever other Wii games I have missed over the years, I would really like them to look the best they can, and I know the WiiU is not going to be upscaling any Wii games. (unless it is, and it is just the kind of upscaling that this is, and just not to true HD)
edit: Okay, so I might have been an idiot and neglected to set the wii to display 480p in the wii settings. Odd that it switched automatically on the other tv though? So, possible settings are, display as normal in TV settings (not wide), 480p in wii settings and 16:9 aspect ratio. This resulted in looking okay, though I wish it would look better widescreen, I will just have to deal.Setting it to the lower aspect ratio just makes the wii play in a small box in the middle of my tv and I would rather deal with some jagginess than that.
It has mostly seen use on an old SDTV, but I hooked it up to the HDTV recently in order to play Xenoblade Chronicles. It looked awful. Incredibly jaggy, muddy texture, etc.
Which makes sense, it is a wii game, but it still looked worse than I knew it could look. So I went out and got some component cables. I honestly can't see much of a difference between the two.
A few days ago, I took the wii over to my lady's house and hooked it up to her 42" Vizio. It looked dramatically better on her television. Still looks like a several year old wii game, but had a much clearer image and less jagginess. My tv had been stretching the signal, while hers was displayed with letterboxes on the sides. I brought it back to my house and made the letterboxes show up on my tv, since I thought the stretching was causing the problems. It did not really fix it.
Somebody over in SE suggested that her TV just has a better upscaler in it. Since the Wii is non-HD, it needs upscaling to display on an HDTV, and will often look worse than it did on an old SDTV.
I googled around a bit and I saw that you could buy an external upscaler. So I am thinking of that. But I wanted the tech forum's opinion on this thing.
I don't have any screenshots handy, I'm just 90% sure it actually did look way better on her tv and I was not just imagining it, so this could totally be a thing, and am wondering if the sort of external upscaler you could buy would be similar to whatever wizardry is going on in that other TV.
It is certainly playable, but if I am going to pick up the Last Story and whatever other Wii games I have missed over the years, I would really like them to look the best they can, and I know the WiiU is not going to be upscaling any Wii games. (unless it is, and it is just the kind of upscaling that this is, and just not to true HD)
edit: Okay, so I might have been an idiot and neglected to set the wii to display 480p in the wii settings. Odd that it switched automatically on the other tv though? So, possible settings are, display as normal in TV settings (not wide), 480p in wii settings and 16:9 aspect ratio. This resulted in looking okay, though I wish it would look better widescreen, I will just have to deal.Setting it to the lower aspect ratio just makes the wii play in a small box in the middle of my tv and I would rather deal with some jagginess than that.
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Don't feel too bad, I didn't think to go to the settings either for a while. I think cause the PS3 and Xbox both auto-detected what I had and set the resolution correctly.