We have a plasma TV (manual says "Panasonic Progressive Plasma Television...TH-37PA20) and I hooked up my PS2 excited to see how it looked on it. I was kind of disappointed, but I noted while browsing through the options menu that it gave different output setting (Normal, Progressive, and HDTV). Well, I selected Progressive and the screen was black. I selected HDTV and the screen was black. Now I'm assuming that since the manual says "progressive" that it should work on progressive mode, but if this is so, why do I just get a black screen? I am guessing it's because I don't have component wires for it...is this correct? If I get a set of component wires, should this game work on the progressive mode? Also, if I got that set of wires do I need some sort of adapter to make it work with the original y/w/r wires? Thanks for your help - I'm sure someone on this board is smarter than I am in this department.
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I have no clue about the plasma thing, but did you already use a r/g/b connection (one cable for each colour channel)? If your TV has such an input you can already improve the appearance.
AFAIR I used the RGB cable I already bought for the PS1 because the PS2 came without it.
AFAIR I used the RGB cable I already bought for the PS1 because the PS2 came without it.
AutoEuphoria said:
Progressive and HDTV modes will only work through component cables, switch to these and the picture will improve greatly.
Cool - I'll run out and get one 
AutoEuphoria said:Cool - I'll run out and get one
You can use standard RCA cables to test it out, just hook up the colors correctly.
Just for my technical english knowledge: Is component cable the same as what I called RGB cable or something different?Carguy! said:
NSX-Racer said:
No it is different, normal component cables are composed of three cables with RCA connectors on each end. They normally have the color of green, blue and red. They only contain video so separate audio cables are also needed. You can use normal audio cables for these three signals, some people buy very expensive cables but I haven't been able to ever see a difference.
RGB cables normally have BNC connectors on them and also have a H Sync and V Sync along with the Red, Green and Blue cables.
NSX-Racer said:
That is a custom cable made for the PS/2, it looks like it has three female RCA plugs for use with a component cable. They call it an RGB cable but it isn't a standard that they are using.
Here is a company that sells various standard cables:
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/hdtv-cables.html#rgbhv
You can see the component cables in the first picture, the RGBHV cables are more towards the middle.
http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/hdtv-cables.html#rgbhv
You can see the component cables in the first picture, the RGBHV cables are more towards the middle.
The 3 additional female plugs (not in use on my setup) are called: Video, left audio, right audio. Nothing for a component cable I guess. This cable separates the 3 colour and 2 audio channels and leads them to the appropriate pins of a standard Scart plug - should work for a Plasma TV too if it has a RGB Scart, right?
NSX-Racer said:
If the output is a single RCA video output then it is composite and not component. Composite uses a single cable for all of the video and component uses three separate cables.
I did a search on ebay and this is the cable you need for component output from the PS2:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21187&item=8171568045&rd=1
Notice there are five cables three for video and two for sound.
Great info - thanks for your efforts! Seems I mixed up composite and component.
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