Cable Advice Needed --Component to VGA--

[Joe]

Hi,

I have a few spare monitors laying around my house doing nothing fun ... but i was thinking it would be nice to hook my Wii into one .

I intended to do this using a Signal processor (component/Scart to Vga/Dvi/HDMI) while on a hunt i saw this

http://www.tvcables.co.uk/cgi-bin/tvcables/BTXL18015-Component-VGA-Cable.html?id=mTRqcMuN

A component to VGA cable !!!!!!

I seriously doubt this will work as it takes a Y'PbPr(component) signal and hooks it straight to RGB(vga)

My problem with this it that Y'PbPr Is essentially YUV with different scaling and YUV needs to be processed into RGB -- something a cable alone doesnt do (processing required illustrated |here| )

Does anyone have any experience here ?? Is it posible (it may be possible this cable uses inline analog conversion)

Specifically in relation to this

Modern game systems (like the PlayStation 2, GameCube, Xbox, Wii, Xbox 360 & the PlayStation 3) use the same connector pins for both RGB and component video, with a software or hardware switch to determine which signal is generated.

I dont believe the Wii can so RGB over Component

EDIT :: I also could go Component >> HDMI || HDMI >> DVI || DVI >> VGA

But I could feed my 2 year old newphew chocolate , cola and sweets all day and his nappy would look like less of a mess

 

[llwyd]

May be a chip in the VGA plug. Does VGA have pins free for sound then?

 

[Joe]

May be a chip in the VGA plug. Does VGA have pins free for sound then?

Only 3 of the component lines are Video the other 2 are RCA phono audio -- standard

Or this in the UK wld be sexhay |OFFICIAL Nintendo Part RVL-012|

[increasing the probability that the wii has RGB/Y'PrPb Detection]

 

[Rastalovich]

Isn`t the cable in the linky a component to Jap-D-sub, which is different to a normal VGA.

Afaic if u wanted to do what u`r thinking, u would either need a monitor that sync`d to low signals or something like a scan-doubler b4 u plug it to u`r monitor.

 

[Joe]

Isn`t the cable in the linky a component to Jap-D-sub, which is different to a normal VGA.

a D-SUB!!!! dmnit i got the link from digg (an ex homepager story) where it was touted as a VGA crap damn blast!!

yea i was thinking it need to be rescaled ... but what an odd item to sell (the cable >> if it doesnt have the circuitry)

the purpose of this thread was to see if ne1 tried it .. to disprove my initial analysis