How to Connect a Wii to HDMI and Fix Display Issues

harvey one is the season for retro gaming and we found our old nintendo wii let's dust it off and play some games so after we plugged our old nintendo wii into our 10 year old samsung led tv we got this ugly black and white grainy looking picture it looks awful so what can we do to fix this well we have a couple of options the very first thing to do is to make sure the component video and audio are plugged into the correct ports on the back of the tv and ours are plugged in correctly now go back to your remote and use the input or source button to find av do not use component it will not work this is where most mistakes are made here's the av and the picture is no longer in black and white it's full color but what if this didn't work for you what other option do you have the only other option you have is to buy a wii to hdmi converter and this converter will cost you about ten dollars let's open the box and see what's inside so it looks like you get a warranty card and here is the hdmi converter not only does it come with an hdmi connection it also has an audio out connection for external audio this converter connects to the video port on the back of the nintendo wii then connect an hdmi cable to the converter and the other end to the tv this converter does stick out a little bit so if you have this on a shelf somewhere it may get in the way okay now it's installed let's take a look at the picture wow looks good it's vibrant has lots of color and let's go ahead and test it out on a few games a couple of things to point out is this hdmi converter does not scale the video to 1080 hd this is how the hdmi converter works after you plug in the hdmi converter to the back of the wii the converter taps into the component video output of the av port which is the highest quality the wii outputs the device performs the analog to digital conversion and outputs that digital signal via hdmi which is 720 by 480 at 60hz this device does nothing to upscale or improve the image quality it simply converts 480p analog to 480p digital and this is ideal because upscaling the image would degrade the picture quality after setting up the device make sure to change the aspect ratio to widescreen settings 16 9 just go to video settings in your wii and you'll want to set your surround sound settings to surround dolby pro logic 2. you want to adjust your television to stretch the newly configured widescreen video across the screen and lastly if you're using a surround sound system engage dolby pro logic 2 decoding for surround sound effect in supported games so one more thought this device works well but there are some issues first the device adds input latency or lag but it's very minor second this device adds dancing diagonal interference into the video signal it's most visible on bold solid colors and gradients especially red but some tvs will completely mask the interference our tv is old so it does not in terms of convenience and ease of use this device is pretty cool having the video and audio setup working on hdmi is much more convenient however the video quality is not as good as it could be and as far as durability goes that has yet to be seen well guys i want to thank you for watching if you like this video give a thumbs up and share it if you love it hit subscribe it's free