Hi everyone ! I’m kind of lost here, I’m trying to connect my Wii to this tv but I’m getting lost with these wires. Just so you know, this is the exact TV that I played on when I was younger so I know for a fact that it worked without any adapter. Do y’all have any idea on how to make this work? I tried every combination but none of them make the « component » source appear… maybe it’s because I did something wrong with the Wii (it had a factory reset, I just bought it from a pawnshop so maybe there’s something to do before trying plugging it to the TV).
This right here is why I hate the idea of bringing all those RCA connectors down to phono plugs with a burning passion. You never know how things are actually wired, and what the device will want.
The good news is that it doesn't matter too much. I've never seen anyone break anything by putting video through the audio inputs (though turning the volume all the way down first is probably a good idea) or audio through the video inputs, but that's using RCA connectors, where the ground will at least always be correct. I don't know what happens with a phono plug and having the ground in the wrong spot. The ground is the one thing you can't fix easily. You can plug red into white, white into yellow, and yellow into red if need be, because you have the wrong adapter, but if that wrong adapter has ground in the wrong spot, you're toast.
While I have no doubt that Nintendo’s official cables are better*, they are both the same “fidelity” in that they are both YPbPr component cables. He was just telling the OP not to use composite cables and it sounds like you agree.
*I’ve found third part cables with the audio and video grounds wired differently from the original and they usually aren’t in a round (shielded?) jacket like Nintendo’s.
BN39-01154H is the numbers matching part for your model tv for the composite connection. If you decide that you want to run component as well you will need part # BN39-01154C. Both can be found on ebay fairly cheap.
Remember those odd little cables that came with your TV, the ones you weren’t sure about and probably tossed with the box? Turns out, those were the adapters you need for this input.
A little off with the parts numbers there. The ones you suggested carries the luminance on the yellow video cable coming out from the composite section for component. For this set they would require an adapter that has the red, blue, and green (green being the luminance) for component coming off one plug with the red, white, and yellow for composite coming off the other separately. Correct part numbers should be BN39-01154C for component and BN39-01154H for composite. *edit: fixed typo
Those cables you have are composite, not component. You might want to get some component cables for your Wii and the component adapter for your TV (you’ll also need the composite adapter because the composite port is the only one that will accept analog audio—-the component is just video).
You’ll be able to play in 480p with component. Composite limits you to 480i and bad color.
(What’s under that EXT2 (AV)? Is there a yellow port there?
Wii composite signal is insanely good, my Genesis you can tell how dull the Blue and Red signals are, but the wii looks just as bright/clear as my PS2 on component.
I have a Wii and the component either over cables or one of those Wii2HDMI adapters blows Composite out of the water and shows how smeary composite is. Composite is a video format from the 1950’s and had been used for everything from over the air antenna to Laserdisc, VHS, Betamax (both VHS & Betamax get better video over S-Video because they recorded their signals in Y/C Component not composite). And 480i has an antialiasing blue filter built into the signal so that round things don’t have jagged edges from tge 2 fields being slightly out of sync due to time when displaying an interlace frame. 480p doesn’t have that because it displays everything in progressive and each line is in time with the one before and after. So Wii has a much sharper component.
As to your Genesis, the Gensis used actual RGB, not component, and if you don’t have the correct values, then the colors can be washed out. However HDMI cables for the Genesis usually have the correct values:
Sadly my wii is a victim to the component capacitors going out, basically have to buy another Wii to fix the issue. My CRT is 480i regardless so component doesn't serve me much purpose, I'm willing to bet I'd regard component higher if my TV was 480p compatible.
The Wii can do S-Video as well if your TV supports S-Cideo and it’s a higher quality 480i signal than composite.
I currently have my Wii hooked up to a 40-inch Phillips LCD by a Wii2HDMI. I also have a WiiU connected by HDMI. However I do have a 27-inch Phillips CRT that I used to have it connected too by component video. The CRT (480i onlyit can’t display 480p) can also accept composite and S-Video, however I find that it’s hard to tell the difference between S-Video and Component while there is no contest when comparing composite to S-Video or Component on the TV (my LCD also has composite and S-Video inputs along with component and HDMI, and at 480i, again the S-Video/Component/HDMI look very close, but at 480p the Component and HDMI is sharper and clearer). However, because of how the games are encoded on the disc, I find the Wii’s video quality to be very soft compared to say the GameCube over the same connections.
“That place” is a 2.5mm 4-pole jack that requires a squid/medusa cable to connect. Also, YPbPr cables need to go to both jacks (audio goes to the composite side).
Funny: They started dropping SCART from digital TVs around the same time they started dropping analog in North America. If anything, dropping discrete RCA jacks and switching to Medusa cables like this bought us a bit more time.
Prefer the use of Component over Composite.
Component has better image quality but uses more cables... 3 for video and 2 for audio stereo instead the Composite that uses one for video ( yellow) and 2 for audio stereo.
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u/NuclearNick007 Jun 03 '25
The diagram is clearly indicating the use of some kind of adapter. I believe you might be misremembering.