PS3 cables question

[mailman187666]

I recently bought a PS3 and have checked a couple of stores for compnent cables and nobody had any. Does anybody know if they have come out with them yet or are they just sold out everywhere. Also, I have an old school style HDTV that does 480P and 1080i but its full screen. Will i be able to do 1080i with component cables for my PS3 or will it stretch the screen like with the 360 to format the picture for a wide screen TV?

[staxx]

The component cables for PS3 are out already. If you can't find them, then the component cables for the PS2 will work. Component will work fine for all the resolutions upto 1080p; therefore, it work on your TV on 1080i, though I think the PS2 on default (choose best resolution) will pick 720p.

[mailman187666]

OK thats cool. Does anybody know if displaying 1080i with the PS3 will stretch the image to be automatically formatted for 16:9 or will I be able to use 1080i on a 4:3 set? I know with my 360, it would only let me do 1080i in widescreen so the images were stretched and looked like ass. Does that mean 1080i is only meant for widescreen displays?

[TurboGenesis]

anything above 480p is set for wide screen 16:9 displays. PS3 is far worse looking than 360 when set in 1080i on a 4:3 screen :(

[Anthony1]

When you are first setting up the PS3, I think you can choose a 4:3 screen instead of 16:9, and then I'm not sure if you will get letterboxed games or what. One thing you have to be aware of, is that alot of PS3 games are 720p only, and if your TV doesn't do 720p, they will be downscaled to 480p. Many people are very upset about this, and supposedly Sony is working on a fix, but the fix must be very complicated, cause people have been complaining since day 1, and we still don't have a fix.

Resistance: Fall of Man happens to be one of the 720p games that automatically goes to 480p if your TV only does 1080i/480p. I have an older Sony HDTV that is like that, and it's terribly dissapointing that the PS3 doesn't have an internal scaler like the 360 and almost every other HDTV related device sold today.

The good news is that the 1080p games can downscale to 1080i, so those should look good, and Blu Ray movies look best at 1080i right now, so those should look good too, of course, everything will be letterboxed, but that's what you get for not joining us in the widescreen ERA. lol.

[TurboGenesis]

The good news is that the 1080p games can downscale to 1080i, so those should look good, and Blu Ray movies look best at 1080i right now, so those should look good too, of course, everything will be letterboxed, but that's what you get for not joining us in the widescreen ERA. lol.

I had to go with a 4:3 television. I don't think I could do a letterbox tate shootie. Now that would look silly! ROFL

[s1lence]

I haven't seen any component cables for them either but I decided to run HDMI on the system anyway with an optical cable for audio in my surround set up.

[Anthony1]

I had to go with a 4:3 television. I don't think I could do a letterbox tate shootie. Now that would look silly! ROFL

Yeah, well I will definitely say that retro games belong on a 4:3. Really, anything prior to Xbox 360 pretty much belongs on a 4:3 display. It kinda sucks, cause you can't really get the best of both worlds no matter which way you go. You go with widescreen, and the older school stuff just doesn't look quite right, you go with 4:3, and then your next gen stuff doesn't look as good as it can, so the best way to roll with it, is to actually use two displays. One for your living room, (usually widescreen for DVD's and HDTV programing and stuff as well) and one in another bedroom that is a regular 4:3. Of course, not everybody can afford to dedicate two seperate TV's to satisfying the aspect ratio desires of seperate era's of video games.


Oh, also, regarding PS3 component cables, I got a PS2 component cable off Ebay for like $7.50 shipped and it works absolutely great.