RGB... no more?

[katakouzinos]

Please read this post if you think you can help me in a weird problem.

I live in Europe (Greece).

I used to have a Philips 21 inch TV, with one RGB output, which I used for my PS2, Gamecube and X-box. All three consoles looked quite good, with the PS2 having the best picture-quality of all. Crystal clear and crisp colours, the picture was rivaling that of a PC monitor in every way (besides resolution that is).

Recently I bought a new TV. A 29-inch Sony. This one has two RGB outputs, and the RGB signal is activated 2 seconds after clicking the corresponding button on my remote control.

Anyway. the Gamecube looks AWESOME. There is a tiny (super tiny) colour bleed, mostly because you can control the colour adjustments (it seems to be a rule in larger TVs) even though you're in RGB mode -- most TVs "trap" the colour information when you see in RGB mode. This one doesn't.

However, the PS2 and the X-box don't look NEARLY as good as the Gamecube.  The X-box looks plain good, but the PS2 looks totally lame for RGB. It mostly looks like S-video or something. There is a great deal of colour bleed, especially between red and green. And I used the SAME RGB scart cable I always used!!

Before you say anything, I have connected all three consoles ON THE SAME RGB output (the first one) one at a time, and of course, waited to see the "RGB activated" icon on the top left of the screen.

So what gives? What could be possibly the problem? I used the cables I always used, and each time I used a console, I connected it on the first RGB output the TV has (I even tried the second one. The Gamecube rocks, the PS2 sucks -- in picture quality always).

Note that I bought the Gamecube Scart RGB cable from www.goblindirect.co.uk , and it cost about 40 dollars, while the PS2 and the X-box ones were bought in Greece (7-10 dollars each).

Is the volatage inside the PS2 scart cable not good enough for the Sony TV or something? It had super-crystal-clear picture on my Philips. I could say that my Sony TV doesn't have good RGB signal, but then, how do you explain the Gamecube's performance?

Please help me out. I can't figure out what's wrong, and I can't stand to have a new TV with one or two consoles looking actually worse than before...

[Vertigo]

It just really does all depend on how much your TV likes the cable, my friend.
Some TVs give you a better display with S-Video than RGB, then you try something else on it and you get a better picture in RGB than S-Video.
Certain people thought I was mad to take my RGB modded N64 into a shop to test out the TVs I liked in there, but there was no way I was going to buy a TV that was arsy about RGB.