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First, choose the type of video presented by your source equipment, or you can use the product navigation panel on the left to go directly to the page you need.
Component Video
A picture signal system where different components of the picture are transported using two or more wires. For example S-Video, also known as 'Y/C' uses two wires, one for brightness the other for colour content. This is typically presented on either two phono (RCA) or BNC connectors coloured black to represent the brightness (Y) and red to represent the colour ?. This could also be presented as a four pole mini-DIN connector.
RGB can use from three to five wires depending on how its synchronisation information is handled. RGsB uses only three wires, red, green and blue, representing the colour components of it's signal, with synchronisation information contained on the green component. RGBS uses four wires, red, green and blue for each colour component and the forth for the combined synchronisation information usually colour coded black. RGBHV uses five wires, red, green and blue for each colour component and two others for each the horizontal and vertical synchronisation information. The colour of the two sync. connectors seems to vary from manufacturer to manufacturer but more often than not they are either yellow, black, white or grey. RGB is typically presented on either phono (RCA) or BNC connectors. Most equipment will offer variants of component video from the scart connector if the equipment is fitted with one.
Composite Video
A picture signal where all the colour component(s), the luminance component and synchronisation information are transmitted on a single wire. Typically this is presented on a single yellow phono (RCA) or BNC connector. There is usually a composite video signal available from the scart connector if the equipment is fitted with one.
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
A digital audio, video and control signal format defined by 7 of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers. The digital signals are uncompressed to give you very high picture and sound quality. It uses only one cable to connect video, audio and control signals between the source and display and has automatic source and display matching for resolution, format and aspect ratio. HDMI is electrically compatible with the signals used by Digital Visual Interface (DVI), no signal conversion is necessary so there is no loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used.
VGA (Video Graphics Array)
A picture signal system containing three seperate colour component signals (red, green and blue) and seperate horizontal and vertical synchronisation information carried on five wires BUT unlike RGBHV this is typically presented on only one connector, a fifteen way high density 'D' connector, housing all five signals. 'VGA' has now become a term used quite generally for computer generated pictures of any resolution but more acurately defines a picture resolution of only 640 x 480 pixels. Other resolution variants are as follows: SVGA (Super Video Graphics Array) has a resolution of 800 x 600, XGA (eXtended Graphics Array) 1024 x 768, WXGA (Wide eXtended Graphics Array) 1366 x 768 for 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, SXGA (Super eXtended Graphics Array) 1280 x 1024, and UXGA (Ultra eXtended Graphics Array) having a resolution of 1600 x 1200.
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First, choose the type of video presented by your source equipment, or you can use the product navigation panel on the left to go directly to the page you need.
A picture signal system where different components of the picture are transported using two or more wires. For example S-Video, also known as 'Y/C' uses two wires, one for brightness the other for colour content. This is typically presented on either two phono (RCA) or BNC connectors coloured black to represent the brightness (Y) and red to represent the colour ?. This could also be presented as a four pole mini-DIN connector.
RGB can use from three to five wires depending on how its synchronisation information is handled. RGsB uses only three wires, red, green and blue, representing the colour components of it's signal, with synchronisation information contained on the green component. RGBS uses four wires, red, green and blue for each colour component and the forth for the combined synchronisation information usually colour coded black. RGBHV uses five wires, red, green and blue for each colour component and two others for each the horizontal and vertical synchronisation information. The colour of the two sync. connectors seems to vary from manufacturer to manufacturer but more often than not they are either yellow, black, white or grey. RGB is typically presented on either phono (RCA) or BNC connectors. Most equipment will offer variants of component video from the scart connector if the equipment is fitted with one.
Composite Video
A picture signal where all the colour component(s), the luminance component and synchronisation information are transmitted on a single wire. Typically this is presented on a single yellow phono (RCA) or BNC connector. There is usually a composite video signal available from the scart connector if the equipment is fitted with one.
HDMI (High Definition Multimedia Interface)
A digital audio, video and control signal format defined by 7 of the largest consumer electronics manufacturers. The digital signals are uncompressed to give you very high picture and sound quality. It uses only one cable to connect video, audio and control signals between the source and display and has automatic source and display matching for resolution, format and aspect ratio. HDMI is electrically compatible with the signals used by Digital Visual Interface (DVI), no signal conversion is necessary so there is no loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used.
VGA (Video Graphics Array)
A picture signal system containing three seperate colour component signals (red, green and blue) and seperate horizontal and vertical synchronisation information carried on five wires BUT unlike RGBHV this is typically presented on only one connector, a fifteen way high density 'D' connector, housing all five signals. 'VGA' has now become a term used quite generally for computer generated pictures of any resolution but more acurately defines a picture resolution of only 640 x 480 pixels. Other resolution variants are as follows: SVGA (Super Video Graphics Array) has a resolution of 800 x 600, XGA (eXtended Graphics Array) 1024 x 768, WXGA (Wide eXtended Graphics Array) 1366 x 768 for 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio, SXGA (Super eXtended Graphics Array) 1280 x 1024, and UXGA (Ultra eXtended Graphics Array) having a resolution of 1600 x 1200.
