I recently purchased a 42in HDTV. And it's great, now that I've finally stomached my buyers' guilt. It's a Philips, it's 1080p picture is fantastic except in one case:
The Nintendo Wii. I love playing the Wii, but the image, even in 480p mode with component cable input, is very pixelated and aliased. Mario appears to have claws, that's how jagged it is. You kind of get used to it, but it never feels like that's how it should look, especially since some textures, like background clouds, galaxies, etc, show none of this and look clear and crisp. I never had this issue on my old 27in CRT, and indeed all the TV's in stores showing Wii games don't seem to have this problem either, but they're all smaller.
I did some int'net research and the forums bitching about these issues vacillate from "mine looks fine" to "it depends on the TV, I have a Sony and it looks beautiful, some technologies don't adapt well" to "its the Wii, that's just how it looks, go get a PS3 if you want high def".
I'm sure Philips would agree with the last point, so no use calling them. I instead reach out to my friends in the know. Is the Wii just stretched out too much on a 42in to avoid jagged pixelation or is it my TV?
