cable question....sorry

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This is a silly question but i have to ask because im really not sure.

I want to do some connections for a source, and the connections are all COMPOSITE video.

So want to source some good quality interconnects, so is it an av wire (red,black,yellow), or the other more expensive (red,blue,green) wires i should look at????

 

[Tony_R]

reggaedave:
This is a silly question but i have to ask because im really not sure.

I want to do some connections for a source, and the connections are all COMPOSITE video.

So want to source some good quality interconnects, so is it an av wire (red,black,yellow), or the other more expensive (red,blue,green) wires i should look at????

Composite video is transferred via a single cable.

The three cable connection you appear to be referring to is component video.

Which one do you have?

 

[robjcooper]

ReggaeDave.

Composite video is sent down one of three cables red black and yellow - yellow contains only the video signal and the red and black are the left and right audio signals. Composite video is a luminance plus modulated encoded colour signal down one cable. So this is the kind of cable you need. (RF i.e your analogue aerial) takes this one step further by adding a modulated audio signal to the mix.

Component video sends just a split video signal down the three cables - there is no audio and this would have to connected seperately). These are 'compressed' encoded versions of the Red Green Blue signal which the tv picture is made up of -Y (luminance) Pb (difference between blue and luma) Pr (difference between red and luma). These cables are only needed if you have a component input/output, so they'll be of no use to you.

Hope that helps

Rob

 

[Anonymous]

thanks for all the info, its composite video connections i need. thought the red,blue and green cable was just a higher quality composite video cable, so its a component.thanks