Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Okay, the train is starting to get back on the track. So here’s an update (no pictures though). Recently I got the monitors in another post you obviously see down there. But what I didn’t have was the proper hook ups for my hardware so I went out and bought component video cables for my PS3 and my Wii. Now I know the Wii doesn’t support anything higher than 480p, but I got them just so I only had to deal with one switch box which I will touch on later. But going back a ways, my 360 has the component cables as standard. When I was at extra life I attached my 360 to my original PG221 and boy was it pretty with component. I figure now that I have 3 I should really put some thought into image quality instead of using the three colored one. When I originally played the rest of Xenosaga III (bad benchmark for this since it’s a PS2 game, but stay with me) it seemed to be poor quality with some jittering and so forth when I was trying to play. Eventually (not really, two days ago is more accurate) I went out and got a set of component cables and it did make a difference. No longer did it jitter, it took up the whole screen and for some reason looked better than it should for a PS2 game. I’m thinking that just rocked.

Onto something related though, I have actually purchased a switchbox I need to comment on. It’s a Pelican product. Now to give a little back story, this is the third product I owned from them which is a switch box. The original two were just 3 color and S-Video, but this one is 3 Color, S-Video and Component. The 3 color old ones I had had issues, mainly for some awkward reason (crossed wires, shotty construction, poor design, I dunno) it can turn a stereo audio set of plugs (two), into mono sound coming out of two plugs. I didn’t get this, but I didn’t really buy from them again. When I was said and done though, I went for the component cables and saw another Pelican switch box as I was looking for another one. I figure, this couldn’t really hurt and if it gives the same issue I can always return it. The price was good too, just another $19.99+tax. So I made the grab and boy was I happy. Got it home, didn’t have the same issue, had quite a few options and enough plugs for everything. In honesty it’s actually a very good box. Quality doesn’t deteriorate, audio is clean and it’s pretty good for such a cheap item. Nothing fancy but gets the job done surprisingly well. Anyway, that should hold you until tomorrow when I will show off Kallo’s completed rig.