My TV hates my DVD player

[Justintime]

Red white are audio and yellow is video. Look at the TV set itself if the remote is not the original, it might have a small control panel somewhere that has the proper controls.

 

[chcr]

Just a note, when I switched from component video (the yellow wire) to s-video, I though it made quite a difference.

 

[Justintime]

Yes the S-Video is much more cleaner and professional than composite from RCA.

 

[alex]

Maybe you can find a bit more here.

 

[alex]

btw Q, if your using component video output from the DVD, all three of those cables are video. Audio will be different cables.

 

[Justintime]

Huh? composite video out is usually the Yellow only, red and white are left and right audio respectively.

 

[alex]

Component video....not composite.

 

[alex]

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[Justintime]

Must be some NTSC format thing, never heard of it

 

[Justintime]

ohhh you mean the actual colours, they do that still?

 

[alex]

Still? 95% of DVD players made today have component video outputs.

 

[alex]

These aren't the old red/blue/green BNC connectors like what used to be on old monitors. Component video delivers a higher quality picture that S-video. Read this.

 

[Justintime]

i've mostly only seen those with S/Video and Composite out i'm afraid, i messed with mostly computer DVD and media systems recently though. What threw me off was you saying that the red and white would be component, those are only usually composite audio/video out colour formats (well the white and yellow anyhow).

 

[alex]

Component video cables are red, blue and green on the ends.

 

[Justintime]

I pretty much figured out on my own that the red wire, the yellow wire and the white wire went in the corresponding red, yellow and white holes on the TV.

 

[Justintime]

Of course if shes dosen't have those colours on the DVD player then it only has component out.

 

[alex]

You mean composite

 

[Justintime]

No, if she dosen't have the yellow red and white on the DVD it only has component out

 

[alex]

If they have component out, they usually have composite out as well in case you have a TV that doesn't have component in, in which case you have to use composite out cause you don't have component in

 

[Justintime]