Sky Render said:
@wiiforever
A/V (aka. composite) are the standard RCA cables you find with just about every TV-based device. They're the yellow, white, and red cables you refer to. The yellow is video, red and white are right and left channel audio. Composite video is a single stream, meaning all light and color data is distributed along the same feed; this leads to blurrier and more washed-out visuals.
S-Video is a wider plug, and looks a bit like a second-generation keyboard plug (ie. small and round, but still a bit bigger than an RCA plug). S-Video separates the light and color feeds, resulting in sharper images and clearer colors.
Component is a 3-cable video feed: Y, Cb, Cr (or black/white, blue chroma, red chroma). They're all shaped like standard RCA cable plugs, but are colored green, blue, and bright red respectively. Component splits color into two channels and sends the image itself through its own channel as well, resulting in high picture clarity and the clearest color you can reasonably expect to find for a TV. |
ok- thanks sooo much. How much do these typically cost? 10$? (US)
