HDMI looks like a USB cable (sort of); it's capable of going up to 1080p, which your Wii should support, but your cable box won't. (I think Comcast tried to do 1080p broadcasts and fried billions of dollars worth of customer equipment that they had to replace somewhere in the US). HDMI cables are expensive, but since they do audio and video with one cable, it doesn't contribute as much to the FSM-like mass of wires behind most tvs.
DVI is the same kind of cable most computer monitors use these days; it looks like a bigger, squarer VGA connection done up in white plastic; it'll go up to 1080i, which is Cable TV's version of high def.
YPbPr/component looks exactly like what you're using now, except there's a red, green, and blue connections for picture and red/white for audio. You can keep using the same red/white as you're using now without any impact on your sound.
What you're using now will work--but since it won't do HD, you're not getting what you paid for.
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Date: 2009-11-07 01:37 am (UTC)HDMI looks like a USB cable (sort of); it's capable of going up to 1080p, which your Wii should support, but your cable box won't. (I think Comcast tried to do 1080p broadcasts and fried billions of dollars worth of customer equipment that they had to replace somewhere in the US). HDMI cables are expensive, but since they do audio and video with one cable, it doesn't contribute as much to the FSM-like mass of wires behind most tvs.
DVI is the same kind of cable most computer monitors use these days; it looks like a bigger, squarer VGA connection done up in white plastic; it'll go up to 1080i, which is Cable TV's version of high def.
YPbPr/component looks exactly like what you're using now, except there's a red, green, and blue connections for picture and red/white for audio. You can keep using the same red/white as you're using now without any impact on your sound.
What you're using now will work--but since it won't do HD, you're not getting what you paid for.