European Wii Owners, I need help

[scarmullet]

I am shopping for a little module for the Wii, its an HDMI adapter which up-scales the Wiis 480p Signal into 1080p (not true HD, but looks nicer on an HDTV). Now the US Wii does not do RGB at all, but the PAL models do. Does anyone know if the PAL variations of these HDMI adapters upscale a RGB input or do they all just upscale the plain progressive image.

[wiggy]

The US Wii does RGB via component video. Are you specifically talking about SCART?

[scarmullet]

The US Wii does RGB via component video. Are you specifically talking about SCART?

Component isn't RGB...VGA and Scart are RGB. Component is just Prog. Scan unless a RGB signal is run through it. The US wii has no RGB, very few US consoles can do RGB.

[Forte]

The US Wii does RGB via component video. Are you specifically talking about SCART?

Component isn't RGB...VGA and Scart are RGB. Component is just Prog. Scan unless a RGB signal is run through it. The US wii has no RGB, very few US consoles can do RGB.

It's not that the console can't, it's that we don't have tv's with SCART connectors. The only way to get a true RGB is to run the SCART through either an HDMI or VGA converter that costs about 50 dollars and has variable success rates per console (and converter) of actually displaying properly.

[scarmullet]

hmm, from doing extra reading, if you short pins 8 and 10 on the wii, it brings it into YPbBr no matter the region. Pal Wiis only do RGB in non progressive scan modes.

Great Success.

[wiggy]

Seems like an absurd amount of effort and money to spend "upgrading" the Wii's super awesome 480i/p output. We're not talking some oddball 16-bit era resolution here. Your modern LCD/Plasma should be perfectly capable of displaying 480i/p without any sort of pricey add-on. What exactly are you trying to get out of this endeavor?

[scarmullet]

In all fairness, its not for my Wii, its for something else...entirely.

[shenske]

Please tell me you are making a portable wiikey fusion mod 

[scarmullet]

Please tell me you are making a portable wiikey fusion mod 

No, basically what that little Wii2HDMI dongle that you stick up your wii's ass is a comparable Video Scaler. A miniature DVD0 Edge if you will. I want to tear that thing down and connect it to other things.