Wii question

Stu · Oct 2, 2007

My kid just got a Wii and I hooked it up for her in the family room. I question whether it is wise though to hook it up to the plasma. The Panasonic people tell me it won't hurt anything, but the Nintendo peoplei tell me they don't recommend a Wii with an HD TV of any type.

Which is it?

denimdestroyedmylife · Oct 2, 2007

Very strange because the Wii has an option for selecting an HD display or non-HD; and they sell HD cable components separately.

Augusto86 · Oct 2, 2007

Maybe something to do with burn-in rather than a Wii-specific trait?

Although it does seem a waste to hook up a Wii to HD, since you're not going to get too much real HD coming out of it. Better to hook up another system or your DVD player, IMO.

chronoaug · Oct 2, 2007

Sometimes HD tvs have a bit of lag in response to games of rhythm and timing. I know on Guitar Hero you can adjust the lag by doing a timing exercise. Maybe it's something like that.

kronik · Oct 2, 2007

Originally Posted by Augusto86

Maybe something to do with burn-in rather than a Wii-specific trait?

This is correct. Also, the Wii outputs at a max of 480P. I plan on buying component cables for mine but they surely aren't necessary.

edmorel · Oct 2, 2007

Plasmas aren't ideal for any type of high speed activity on the screen, although I am sure that current generation plasma are better at it than the older stuff. Be careful she doesn't sling the controller at the TV

Stu · Oct 2, 2007

If it is performance related, it doesn't really matter to me. I don't worry about wasting the HD on it, as I already have a home theater and DVR HD box and all that **** for regular viewing of TV, DVD, etc.

Also, during setup of the Wii, I enabled an option to reduce screen burn-in, so based on all this, I probably should be OK, eh?

imageWIS · Oct 2, 2007

Originally Posted by edmorel

Plasmas aren't ideal for any type of high speed activity on the screen, although I am sure that current generation plasma are better at it than the older stuff. Be careful she doesn't sling the controller at the TV

Well it comes with the wrist-strap now, right?

Jon.

ratboycom · Oct 2, 2007

it always came with a wrist strap, its just people were losing grip on the controller and the strap was breaking.

Ludeykrus · Oct 2, 2007

Originally Posted by ratboycom

it always came with a wrist strap, its just people were losing grip on the controller and the strap was breaking.

Sweet jesus, I remember stopping by some people's house during the holidays and playing a Wii for the first time. The kid fires it up and shows me how to play bowling on their ginormous plasma TV.........and first swing the kid launches the control as hard as he could straight into the screen

It sounded like a gunshot and we still can't believe nothing broke.

skalogre · Oct 2, 2007

Originally Posted by ratboycom

it always came with a wrist strap, its just people were losing grip on the controller and the strap was breaking.

Now also comes with a jacket

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jac...ketrequest.jsp

dtmt · Oct 2, 2007

Not for the faint of heart: http://wiihaveaproblem.com/

Augusto86 · Oct 2, 2007

denimdestroyedmylife · Oct 3, 2007

Originally Posted by skalogre

Now also comes with a jacket http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jac...ketrequest.jsp
I was expecting that to be a link to a jacket... with a wii-mote compartment at the wrist:

Earthmover · Oct 3, 2007

My understanding of the problem was that the plasma/lcd tvs don't really like pause screens and other stationary objects that are usually present in video games (such as the score/item display area) because that causes burn-ins and such. But I think unless the TVs are used solely for that reason, it's completely fine. I've never had any problems playing games on my HD tvs.

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