Well I doubt most of the cable sales are Nintendo. More likely MadCatz & Nyko are the
ones benefiting if at all from needing 2x the cables. Deal is by design same pins are
used to supply both Svideo & Component, with a separate pair of pins select Composite
or SVideo mode. Thus after market cables should be Component + Svideo w/ switch to
choose but no one makes such a cable.
Such bonehead design decision are also why this WD DVP falls flat on it's face for
totally excluding both video options.
Meanwhile ATI manages to do all 3 with the same port & 2 types of dongle that are
included with every card because they opt for Svideo out by default.
HDMI WII? OK, but if it's more cash and still can't do component or svideo it's
missing the mark also.
[email protected] wrote:
In making money. So far nintendo isn't hurting making money selling cable seperate. Word is an hdmi version of the wii may see light of day this year though.
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-----Original Message-----
From: maccrawj <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:49:16
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] Western Digital TV HD
Fail unless it has Component out (not Composite) I'd say they've missed the mark
offering by the high end & low end signals only given that HDMI2Component converters
are damned expensive.
Nintendo and their licensed partners screw customers similarly in that one cable you
BUY is Composite + SVideo the other Component only where it should be a single cable
doing all 3 or at least one doing Svideo + Component and it should have shipped with
the WII.
Where are the brains of these companies forgetting Component & SVideo is more common
than either of the other standards?
Stan Zaske wrote:
Here's another review of it:
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1742/western_digital_s_wd_tv_hd_media_player_video_review/index.html
