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Posted by Bob on January 17, 2006, 8:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options just bought a Samsun 24" digital tv. Seems nice. our dvd and new tv are both compatible with "component video" which, unlike the standard "composite video", does not blend all RGB and luminance in one signal - it breaks them into 3 signals (luminance, red, blue - the green apparently is inferred from the balance of R &B.) does anyone know if I can use the old fashioned Red-White-Yellow cables which are ordinarily used to hook up lesser expensive home theaters, to hook up component video? I would guess not b/c nowadays they make such a big deal about buying "component video" cables. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Tony Hwang on January 18, 2006, 4:40 am
Please log in for more thread options Bob wrote: Then no advantage of digital surround sound and HD video. Tony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Pyriform on January 18, 2006, 12:01 pm
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Bob wrote: > does anyone know if I can use the old fashioned Red-White-Yellow
> cables which are ordinarily used to hook up lesser expensive home > theaters, to hook up component video? I would guess not b/c nowadays > they make such a big deal about buying "component video" cables. You might get away with it for short runs, but the Red-White-Yellow cable is meant for composite video + left and right audio. It may therefore not perform very well at the much higher frequencies used for video signals. Get a proper component cable - but don't spend silly money on exotic cables treated with snake oil. They won't work any better, despite what the manufacturers and credulous reviewers might say. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Nick Vital on January 20, 2006, 10:23 am
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you definetly want to go with component cables that are made for doing jsut that. I'd recommend going on-line (possibly ebay) and getting your cables there. don't pay extra for MONSTER or other high end cables. when I helped my father with his home theater we bought a 75 foot cable to run to the projector it was half the price of rthe 40 foot monster cable, and when it came in I was VERY pleased with the quality of the cable, in my opinion it was better than MONSTER (each cables with shielded from the other onees andn then all of those inside one big shield, very nicely done) trust me if you were to hook up the regular yellow red blue cables and then switch to the component cables, you'd notice a difference, at least I did. -Nick | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Tony Hwang on January 20, 2006, 11:52 am
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Bob wrote: > just bought a Samsun 24" digital tv. Seems nice.
Hi,
> > our dvd and new tv are both compatible with "component video" which, unlike > the standard "composite video", does not blend all RGB and luminance in one > signal - it breaks them into 3 signals (luminance, red, blue - the green > apparently is inferred from the balance of R &B.) > > does anyone know if I can use the old fashioned Red-White-Yellow cables > which are ordinarily used to hook up lesser expensive home theaters, to hook > up component video? I would guess not b/c nowadays they make such a big > deal about buying "component video" cables. > > > R,G,B and component cables were created on different spec. Component cable is designed to carry wider band width signal (for HD). I'd buy a set of component cable. Don't need to spend monster amount of money to buy something outrageously priced. All my video signal is carried by component cable into A/V receiver which feeds HDTV set. Audio signals are all on optical(Toslink) or coax. Tony | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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> our dvd and new tv are both compatible with "component video" which, unlike
> the standard "composite video", does not blend all RGB and luminance in one
> signal - it breaks them into 3 signals (luminance, red, blue - the green
> apparently is inferred from the balance of R &B.)
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> does anyone know if I can use the old fashioned Red-White-Yellow cables
> which are ordinarily used to hook up lesser expensive home theaters, to hook
> up component video? I would guess not b/c nowadays they make such a big
> deal about buying "component video" cables.
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