My Wii looks shit on a HDTV

[kps88]

Just played Wii today after a while for the first time on my Samsung 32' HDTV. Its all blurry. Looked better when I had a SDTV.

Any help as to what I can do to make it look better?

Also I was playing around with my settings and forgot what my default Sharpness setting was. Out of 100 what should be my sharpness for normal viewing?

 

[Biscuit1871]

My shit looks shit smothered my on HDTV. Makes the screen all blurry.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Just played Wii today after a while for the first time on my Samsung 32' HDTV. Its all blurry. Looked better when I had a SDTV.

That's because it's basically outputting SDTV resolutions. I could be wrong, but I've read somewhere that it doesn't even render in widescreen, it's all anamorphic.

You'll just have to mess with the settings on your TV, or buy a TV with a better scaler.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Also I was playing around with my settings and forgot what my default Sharpness setting was.

The TV should have an option to reset back to default settings. Does it have a game mode?

 

[kps88]

The TV should have an option to reset back to default settings. Does it have a game mode?

Yes it does but it looks even worse in that.

 

[kps88]

My shit looks shit smothered my on HDTV. Makes the screen all blurry.

Well thats good to know.

 

[Chirag]

Yes it does but it looks even worse in that.

The game mode must have some settings that you could possibly change try doing something about it...

 

[starman]

1. Buy the component cable, if you haven't already got one

2. Set the output of the Wii to 480p

3. Adjust settings on TV

If all fails, then...

4. Buy a better TV.

 

[sonymobby]

1. Buy the component cable, if you haven't already got one

2. Set the output of the Wii to 480p

3. Adjust settings on TV

If all fails, then...

4. Buy a better TV.

4. Sell the Wii and buy a PS3 or a 360.

 

[Chirag]

4. Sell the Wii and buy a PS3 or a 360.

 

[olesmyhero]

If you're using the standard composite cables, they always look nasty. As sonymobby says, get the component cables. My friend did that, made a huge difference.

 

[gaffs]

I got a component - still looks a bit shit.

 

[Adzzz]

Wii's graphics are shit anyway, it can't show proper HD iirc.

 

[Biscuit1871]

Does anyone really buy a Wii for graphics?

 

[kps88]

Its not a question of graphics people. Everything including the text just lacks focus and looks blurry.

It looked fine on standard def before I got this new TV.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Because standard def is basically what it outputs. To display that on a HDTV, it needs to be scaled up (in your case to 3x its original size). Christ knows what it would look like on a 1080p panel. Am I talking to a brick wall here?

 

[kps88]

Because standard def is basically what it outputs. To display that on a HDTV, it needs to be scaled up (in your case to 3x its original size). Christ knows what it would look like on a 1080p panel. Am I talking to a brick wall here?

Nah I got your point Weaste. Was just explaining to people who thought its simply a game graphics problem that its not the case.

 

[WeasteDevil]

Plus, cathode ray tubes are brilliant, nothing can beat them for pure image quality.