I had my Wii on a £100 Goodmans CRT with a nice flat screen, though a third party RGB Scart cable and it looked fine to my eyes. Now swapped that in my games room for a 20" Samsung Pebble HDTV and monitor, which has one of every input. It apparently does no after-effects whatsoever on normal RF telly, and a cheap freeview box through scart using my dodgy roof arial is every bit as cock as it should be. But the Wii, using a third party component, looks utterly fugly. I appreciate that the 'inbuilt anti-ailaising' of a CRT is no longer in effect and I can expect some jaggies but it looks like a PS1 game, whatever I play. Mario Galaxy looks far worse, for example. I think my SAmsung isn't doing much to upscale the 480p the wii is giving it, hence low quality.
Has anyone else chosen not to run their Wii through an HDTV? Is there something I might do with my samsung I'm not doing (none of the presets work great picture wise, so I'm using my contrast slider and so on...). Can't help feeling this is costing Nintendo, as having even the choices of output the PS2 enjoys would have seen me buy Lost Winds already. But if I need to bring in my hulking great crt to get the best from the graphics, I'm not sure I'll be doing that instead of GTA4, you know?