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Kayden
06-08-2006, 07:40 PM
I just got some new component cables (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8290589602) and the image with my GC is black and white. The PS2 looks fine and so does the xbox. Any ideas?
Yeah, that's not a Gamecube component cable, you'll need to run it into the composite (yellow) jack in your TV.
mtxbass1
06-08-2006, 08:07 PM
Kayden, did you get the official nintendo cables?
Kayden
06-08-2006, 08:35 PM
Yeah, that's not a Gamecube component cable, you'll need to run it into the composite (yellow) jack in your TV.
Eh? Why what huh? I fail to notice the difference?
Kayden, did you get the official nintendo cables?
No...
WAJedi
06-08-2006, 08:44 PM
From the auction description....
The Gamecube Cable is an ANALOG Video / AV CABLE, It does not have the digital component end ** THE GAMECUBE CABLE IS NOT AN HDTV/COMPONENT CABLE **
mtxbass1
06-08-2006, 09:02 PM
If you didn't buy the official nintendo component cables...then how do you have gamecube component cables?
Apossum
06-08-2006, 09:32 PM
ah, pwned by the small print. stupid ebayers flooding their auctions with text and nonsense.
btw, how come no one makes third party component cables for the cube?
mtxbass1
06-08-2006, 09:52 PM
btw, how come no one makes third party component cables for the cube?
Aside from the fact that 1% of the gamecube market actually uses the cables...
They'd need to first figure out what digital signal is coming out of the cube. After that they would need to develop a DAC (digital to analog converter) that would make that signal into component. I doubt they could reverse engineer the chip inside the DAC anyway.
I can't really see it being that viable to market either. Even if 50% of CAG bought the cables, it would represent a tiny amount of the market needed for a company to make any money off these things.
Apossum
06-08-2006, 09:56 PM
damn, nintendo is hardcore about that crazy proprietary stuff...(assuming the other systems don't use all that fancy DAC stuff..)
cochesecochese
06-08-2006, 10:10 PM
It's not so much that as it is Nintendo managing to shave $20-ish off of the manufacturing of each gamecube by making that particular chip external.
Kayden
06-08-2006, 11:58 PM
Oh... so... what the fuck is the point of even having the GC on there? :dunce:
RedvsBlue
06-09-2006, 12:02 AM
Oh... so... what the fuck is the point of even having the GC on there? :dunce:
To trick people like you? ;)
Kayden
06-09-2006, 12:04 AM
To trick people like you? ;)
:roll:
Funnier yet... the PS2 plug has a port for the Guncons... yet they don't fucking work on HD TVs. Who the hell would use component cables on a standard tv? Thats like putting chrome on a fucking GeoMetro!
Tybee
06-26-2006, 05:08 PM
:roll:
Funnier yet... the PS2 plug has a port for the Guncons... yet they don't fucking work on HD TVs. Who the hell would use component cables on a standard tv? Thats like putting chrome on a fucking GeoMetro!
Actually, I used the component cables for my GCN and DVD on a standard TV for a while, primarily because it had one of those line-doubler modes where it would compress all of the available lines of resolution for HD content, resulting in a pretty nice EDTV picture. It actually has multiple component inputs. Even without that feature, component cables offer a slightly improved standard def picture over S-VHS, particularly in terms of color accuracy (though not nearly as noticeable as the improvement of S-VHS over composite).
But now I have a real HDTV and the standard set has been banished to the bedroom, so I don't have to worry about that kind of stuff. :)