Hey,

I want to play my Wii on my dell monitor. It has s-video inputs and the likes but unfortunately for UK PAL consoles the Wii does not support s-video. I have seen you can get VGA to monitor converters for the Wii such as the X2VGA 2:



Has anyone got one? Is it recommended? Its expensive to import one here, so I want to be sure before I order.

Thanks

Just wondering, have you tried running an s-video into your moniter yet? The low def signal doesn't always look decent on such a high def display.

I have a dell 24", but I have nothing to try s-video for, besides the Wii doesn't work with s-video on UK consoles.

This is why i hate PAL and NTSC. Can't we just settle on one universal setting?

this what i use for my 360.....

i bought a VGA cable that m$ made, works good get 720p....

Well my friend bought a converter from monitor input to s-vidio. Then he just uses the original plugs and plugs it to the opposite end of the converter.

I ordered the X2VGA 2 in September and received it shortly after. I tried it with my Samsung 226BW LCD monitor and Wii with component cables. It displays in 480p but has several problems:

1) light-red horizontal bands that appear often. seems like it is either a poor conversion or noisy
2) all colors are washed out and greenish
3) every few minutes it sends a black screen to the LCD or the LCD turns the signal off for a moment lasting about 1 second.

The 3rd problem is described also by poster #3 above (Prashant). Also, when using the VGA pass-thru it makes the signal noisy (very noticeable; when plugging vga cable from computer directly into the LCD monitor without X2VGA2 there is no noise).

I have emailed Neoya 4 times- about once every 2 weeks since I first tried it, to techsupport@neoya.com and sales@neoya.com, and have never received a response.

I don’t know if it is a problem with this X2VGA2 unit, my LCD or combination of Wii 480p with my LCD, or Neoya products in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated. christopho at gmail

Coincidentally I just received my first response, from sales@neoya.com

What country are you from? I need to know how long the delivery takes

Since my previous posts above from November (also as #6 and 7 at http://1n73r.net/2006/04/21/x2vga2-review/), I have discovered that of the following 3 problems I mentioned,

1) light-red horizontal bands that appear often. seems like it is either a poor conversion or noisy
2) all colors are washed out and greenish
3) every few minutes it sends a black screen to the LCD or the LCD turns the signal off for a moment lasting about 1 second.

I have resolved #1 and #2; they were due only to a bad component video cable (the Pr of YPbPr was broken) and not the fault of the x2vga2. I found this out by one day deciding to use a multimeter on the Wii-component cable to check whether all the pins actually connected to the RCA component plugs. So once I fixed the component cable, the colors are great and the banding is gone and 480p Wii looks pretty good on my Samsung 226BW LCD monitor. In fact, the x2vga2 does a better quality conversion than a similar product, the KWorld TVBox 1680ex, which I bought after being frustrated.

However, problem #3 persists -- the black screen every once in a while for a second, which has also been reported by others and sort of recognized by the manufacturer as a problem for which they would replace that person's x2vga2 with a new version (see comment #3 at http://1n73r.net/2006/04/21/x2vga2-review/). I am still awaiting to hear from them regarding this.