Anyone Tried a PS2 or Wii into a Dell 2007FWP?

Schizophonic · 13 Jan 2007 at 01:06

Dont know if this should be in the Console section. If so - move it

Thanks

Anyway my questions is:

Has anyone tried to plug in a PS2 or a Wii into their Dell 2007FWP, because I tried it for the first time both using composite and S-video and the screen quality is poor.

Makes me thinking about upgrading for the Dell Ultrasharp 2407WFP 24...in about 2 years lol. Ouch its expensive.

fish99 · 13 Jan 2007 at 01:32

I've tried my Xbox through s-video into my 2007WFP and it looks terrible. Same thing with my Gamecube through composite.

At first I thought it must be the upscaling, but when I tried PC games in the same res as the xbox runs, they look fine, if a little blocky of course. So I reckon it's just the s-video and composite inputs on the Dells are cheap and nasty. They probably are on most TFTs that have them though since they're just an afterthought and not really expected to be used.

I doubt you'll ever get an old standard definition (low res) console like PS2/xbox/GC etc (probably Wii too) to look great on a PC monitor. The s-video/composite inputs on the 2407 are probably exactly the same as on the 2007, and I've heard the component it has is awful too. I think a proper TV (whether LCD/plasma/CRT) is always going to do a better job.

Schizophonic · 13 Jan 2007 at 01:50

Thanks for the reply. I search around the net to find if the 2407 is decent enough for the composite, but I suppose the VGA adapters are the way forward!

JonB · 13 Jan 2007 at 13:51

I asked the same question, a couple of threads down.

How about this...

http://www.x2vga.com/

I've no idea if it's any good, but it seems like it might be...

fish99 · 13 Jan 2007 at 14:54

Composite is always going to give a fairly bad picture, even on the best TV around. The three colours are combined rather than being seperated out as seperate RGB components, so the picture quality is poor. S-video and component should look good on a good TV, but not on a computer monitor. They're just not designed for it.

There's been plenty of threads about the component, s-video and composite inputs on the 2407 and I'm sure from the comments I've read that they're no better than on the 2007.

A VGA box like in the link above might do the trick if you feed it a good quality signal (ie from component not from composite).