I got my Nintendo brand Wii component cables yesterday and they pissed me off for a bit. They pissed me off because I'd let a horizontal positioning/size error run amok on my TV since it birthed its way through my door. I rectified the situation with prejudice and service code-fu. The situation is fixed and working properly (I think), but the changes are... interesting.
First thing I noticed is how jaggie some stuff is now. I don't know what's going on with that, but I definitely see more jaggies. I think they were maybe there before, but my TV was glossing them over with the composite Vaseline lens. I took some pictures of the two sets, and I'll post them later for you all to look at.
I played some Wii Sports with the new cables and enjoyed the extra definition and color pallet, but wasn't as impressed as I'd told myself I would be. Wii Sports looked more color rich, but less next-gen.
Then I put Zelda: Twilight Princess in and everything changed. The trees! My god, man, the trees! Look at them! They're amazing! At that second I realized that my lifelong goal was to be an arborist. No, it was to be a writer of some kind. Focus. I'm allergic to trees, which, in a fashion, is maybe why I like to write: printing my stuff out on paper helps KILL trees. Or... uhmm... The Internet prints out my blog and keeps the hardcopy in a vault somewhere, right? Yeah? I thought so. Thanks, man.
G'nite!
[Update 1: My service code-fu is weak. I have shamed my ancestors by attempting to fix my tv by myself, so I called for my four-year-service-plan posse to back me up. We don't talk turkey until Monday though, so I'm stuck with the jaggies 'til then. After first I thought I'd fixed the problem (even though the jaggies remained), but straight vertical lines are no longer straight (though the *other* issues have been corrected). I tried messing with some other stuff, and I think I made it better, but it's just about impossible for me to get it correct. Argh. I hope this Service Company that Best Buy is pawning me off on doesn't suck. *fingers crossed*.]
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