Gamefly and PS2 Games

[Dealin Rams]

Re: Gamefly and PS2 Games

Can anyone who has a PS2 hooked up to their HDTV help me out? I ended up getting the PS2 slim and God of War, but I have two minor problems.

1) So I got the Sony brand component cables to hook the PS2 to my Sharp Aquos LC-37D4U HDTV (which is a widescreen HDTV). The PS2 manual says:

PS2 is "compatible for use with component video inputs (Y Cb/Pb Cr/Pr) but cannot be used with inputs in HDTV format (Y Pb Pr)."

Of course, my HDTV has the latter. I attached the Sony component cable to my HDTV anyway, turned on the PS2, and it seemed to be working. So I don't know what gives. However, in configuring the PS2 I experimented with the setting that allows you to choose between "4:3", "Full", and "16:9". Obviously I don't want 4:3, but I didn't know which of the other two I'd want, so I tried both with God of War. With both, I seem to be left with the game taking up almost all of the screen, but leaving a vertical black bar of about an inch or two on the left side of the screen (the game uses the entire right side of the screen, which is weird). And I did go into the God of War options and enable both progressive scan and widescreen. Anyone know what's going on, or experienced this before??

2) Upon trying to install the PS2, I found out that I've run out of component input slots. My Digital cable box uses one, and the 360 was using the other (I unplugged the 360 to try out the PS2). Anyway, I obviously need to do something about this. Am I just dreaming, or are there some splitting mechanisms I can buy to get both the PS2 and the 360 using the same component input??

Just an update. I found out that what I needed was a "system selector," which I got. Only $20 from Pelican, it seems to work fine so far.

However, I'm still having the issue with the PS2 and my HDTV. Can anyone at least tell me if they have a PS2 running on a relatively new widescreen HDTV and taking up the entire screen? Is this just something the PS2 isn't capable of doing?