(this post was carried over from my other thread, as that thread's more or less served its purpose already, and its likely no one will continue to follow up on it)

As some of you may know, I just bought a Wii for my kid brother yesterday. Today we tried to install it, but the TV only comes with the following inputs:

- one for a set of splitter cables which are red, white and yellow, which converge to an adapter to plug into AV IN.
- one set of splitter composite cables consisting of red and white, converging to a yellow pin to plug into the AUDIO section of COMPONENT IN
- one set of splitter composite cables consisting of blue, green and red converging to a lime-green pin to plug into the PR/PB/Y section of COMPONENT IN (the cables are not shown in picture because I have removed them)

Apparently the TV has 4 HDMI ports, but the Wii doesn't come with a HDMI cable. What can I do in this case, other than sit in a corner and sulk?


-edit- OOPS! I forgot to mention that we have a cable TV set top box with the red, yellow and white composite cables. This is why we cannot have the Wii and TV plugged in simultaneously. If we want to play the Wii, we have to unplug the TV's composite cables, and vice versa. Over time this will loosen the connection.

Use the AV in cable of your TV. The Wii comes with its own composite cable which ends in a red/white/yellow output that can connect to the AV IN splitter cable that your TV has.

You can optionally buy a component video cable for the Wii from Nintendo. That one would go with the other splitter cable.

Edit: I'm assuming that the cables that go on your TV have female ends, otherwise it won't work without a male-to-female adapter.

Perhaps I'm not understanding the problem, because it seems fairly straight forward. Unless you're missing the adapter for the component-video input? Even then, you could plug them into the composite input adapter.

Assuming you have all of the adapters and a component cable for your Wii, then I would do this:

Sorry bros, I missed out one part of the problem lol. I've edited my first post.

If the cable box is using the composite inputs, then I would suggest getting the component cables so you can plug the Wii directly into the TV. You'll get better picture quality to boot.

If you want both connected at the same time you have 2 options. There should be a box that let's you hook more than one device at a time and switch between them but I don't know how they are called. You should ask an electronics store.
The other option is buying the wii component cables and use that instead, assuming you aren't using the composite input of your TV. Nintendo sells their own official cables which are a little expensive but have good quality. You could also third party cables specifically for the Wii because the Wii doesn't use an standard port.

you could get a wii to hdmi converter, you wont really see a high gain in quality but it will do the deed

So component cables let me convert the 3 composite cables to a HDMI end?

You should be able to plug the red/white/yellow cables on the splitter that says "AV IN" on the left. That one only allows the wii to display 480i, IIRC. Alternatively, you could get a Wii Component cable, which is not bundled with the console and use the splitters on the right. If you do not want to plug and unplug the composite inputs all the time, you should get the wii component cable. Besides, with that one the wii can output 480 progressive, not interlaced.

No, they go in the component section. The component cables have 5 plugs, two audio and 3 video. They go in the inputs on the right (the ones marked component).

The component cable would replace the composite cable. It's a cable that ends in five plugs, which would then go into the two farthest right adapters on your tv.

That's right, but my cable TV composite cables go in there too, so I have to swap one for the other when changing activities; hence the problem :(

Sneaky way around this: You can use one of those really old AV cables that had the needle like pin. Plug that into your set box. Lead the other end connect to an adapter for consoles. The input will route through your set box into the TV without having to disconnect. You'll need to find an adapter though. The one I have at home is Mad Cats, with inputs to 360 (and xbox), N64 (plus gamecube and wii), and ps1 (Ps2, maybe ps3. Not sure).

That's what I had to do at home. We used to have an older TV with only the one AV input, and we had a VCR we wanted to use, so the AV went from TV to VCR, the adapter cable went from VCR to console. We got a new TV recently with 2 HDMI, a set of red yellow white, a set red yellow white green blue, an AV attachment, and 5 consoles we wanted to attach to it. That one took a long while to figure out. AV to VCR, VCR to adaptor. 360 to red-yellow-white-green-blue, wii to red yellow white, n64 and PS2 to the adaptor, and disconnect the adaptor on the AV cable to connect to the NES.

Ah, so basically instead of using the default red, white and yellow cables, I get the blue, green, red, red and white cables?