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‘Getting Connected’ – A/V Inputs

High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a compact audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed digital data. It represents a digital alternative to consumer analog standards, RF, Composite, Coaxial, and S –Video connections. HDMI is the new standard like it or not, you need it!
When using devices that support it, you can take care of both the audio and video connections with a single cable.

Component video is a video signal that has been split into two or more components. In popular use, it refers to a type of analog video information that is transmitted or stored as three separate signals. It can have excellent video quality if equipment and cables are of good quality.

S-Video is an analog video signal that carries a video data as two separate signals: lumen (luminance) and chroma (color). This differs from composite video, which carries picture information as a single lower-quality signal, and component video, which carries picture information as three separate higher-quality signals. S-Video carries standard definition video (typically at 480i or 576i resolution), but does not carry audio on the same cable. If the source is S-Video and the Display is S-Video and you use a good S-Video cable it can look pretty good. Typically used in conjunction with an Optical Audio cable/Input

RCA connector is a type of electrical connector that is commonly used in the audio/video market. The name "RCA" derives from the Radio Corporation of America, which introduced the design by the early 1940s to allow mono phonograph players to be connected to amplifiers. For many other applications it began to replace the older jack style plugs used in the audio world when component high fidelity started becoming popular in the 1950s.

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