Component Cables

Color: Green connector (luminance signal Y) Blue connector (color difference B-Y) Red connector (color difference R-Y)

The component cable is one step higher than the S-Video cable when it comes to the transfer of an analog video signal. As in the S-Video cable where the video signal is split into 2 separate parts, the component cable splits the video signal into 3 separate parts.

The 3 separated video signals used in this configuration represent a higher quality than the single cable commonly used to hook up video equipment because the brightness and color components of the signal are maintained separately.

How the cable separates and transfers the signal is a little outside the scope of our talk here… it can get complicated considering there are quite a few conversion formulas that be used. I was never good at math.