Making Heads or Tails of Video Cables.

Choosing the best cable for your home theatercolor coded mainly using Red, Green, and Blue.
system can be a harrowing experience. Most peopleIn the Component video the signals are divided into 3.
feel that it would be much easier to hire someone toYou will mostly find these video cables in DVD
install their system so that they do not have to dealplayers and HD TV. You are sure to get a better
with deciding which cables to use. Here is a quick listimage quality. These are color coded as well using
of the types of cables and what they are used for.Green, Red, and Blue.
This should make it easier for you to understandThe Composite video cable is most commonly used
them and put this knowledge to use putting togetherfor your VCR, Camcorder, TV, and VD player. You
your new home theater.will find that these cables are color coded mainly red,
The coaxial cable is the most prevalent cable usewhite, and yellow. Only one cable is used for the
today for transmitting video signal from one sourceactual transmitting. Even with their subpar quality and
to another. But there still is a need for other cablesaudio they are most common used ones.
and some of the reasons are if you are trying toThe S-Video cable wire divides its video signal into
improve your contrast ratio. Enhancing your colors,two components. This is what separates the S-Video
trying to avoid that all annoying video distortion, andfrom the Composite video cables. You will find these
for a simple job like running cables longer.on your latest television sets and satellite set top
There are quite a few different types of video cable;box as well as your camcorder.
they are the VGA Video cable, the DVI Video cableYour Portable Projector video cables come with 15
S-video cable, the Portable Projectors, RGBHV,pin VGA. The Portable Projectors cables use about 3
Component video cables and the Composite videoin design for component video signal. The Portable
cables.projector is designed to sense the video signal is
The DVI cable purpose is to create digital linkreceiving and process them accordingly.
between the source of video and display device.Chances are your PC to computer monitor also
These are larger in size then the VGA cable.connects with VGA cables. These VGA cables are
With the invention of high definition you will see thenormal monitor cables and have 115 pins made up of
RGBHV video cable use because the video signal is3 rows.
divided in five. Like the Composite video they are