How do you set up a Wii?

[steve_k]

I feel retarded for asking, but how do you set up a Wii? At first glance, it appears to be identical to the Gamecube, Xbox, Dreamcast, and PS2. Oddly, I noticed there is no HDMI port. Maybe I'm blind or not looking in the right place. Anyway, I used the AV wires to plug directly into the Wii and matched the yellow, red, and white plugs into the television. I'm pretty sure I'm not confusing white with yellow, but I did double-check, triple-check, and quadruple-check to ensure once again I was not going blind. Plugging in the sensor appears to be pretty self-explanitory. I turned on the system and am only getting sound. There is no picture. I watched a Youtube video and found the Sync button, so I pressed and held down the Sync button in hopes this was the step I was overlooking. I had no such luck. My yellow AV video cable is fully inserted and not losely connected. Why do I have no picture? I've tried setting the system on three TVs and have had the same results. I think the system is either broken or the AV cable has been damaged although I cannot see any visible damage. I have about a dozen systems and never have problems hooking them up. The Wii seems to be pretty easy, so unless it's broken, I'm baffled as per why it will not display an image.

I've tried every possible combination of Line 1, Line 2, AV1, AV2, Component 1, and Component 2 even though I know I'm using AV2 on my television. I'm getting sound, so I should get a picture, right?

[crunchewy]

You might try getting a Wii component video cable from monoprice.com and see if that works. Maybe it's just the cable, and if you're using it with an HDTV, which it sounds like you are, I'd highly recommend getting a component video cable for the Wii and using that. Be sure to turn on progressive scan and widescreen in the Wii settings once you've got it working with that cable, otherwise you aren't going to get any benefit from it. If that still doesn't work, then perhaps the Wii is defective.