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Apple Composite AV Cable

what's the difference between the Composite AV Cable and the Component AV Cable?

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    I’m not a professional, but have plenty of experience with this, so I’ll do my best to explain in laymen’s terms.

    In the case of Apple's AV cables to be used with your iPod or iPhone, it's the difference in how you connect your video feed.

    Component AV consists of 3 RCA-type plugs to carry the video feed to your TV/Monitor. With this connection you are able to send the lowest form of an HD video signal (720i and maybe 720p, but I’m not positive about the ‘p’). So with this product you’ll see 5 RCA-type plugs; 3 for the video and 2 for the audio.

    Composite AV consists of a single RCA-type plug to carry the video feed to your TV/Monitor. This is the simplest form of video feed and will have 3 RCA-type plugs; 1 for the video and 2 for the audio.

    Newer TV's and Monitors often have both options available or only component, whereas the older TV's and Monitors only have the composite option available. Be sure you check out what connections are available on your specific TV.

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  • Component AV is a higher quality and has the Red, Green and Blue inputs as well as the Right and Left channel audio. Composite AV is a standard RCA with the yellow for video and red and white for audio left and right.

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  • Component offers the red green blue input and this can be scaled upto full 1080p (source allowing) this is still regarded as a superior connection to HDMI.

    Composite is your general all round video input which can be put into most tvs games consoles video cameras and some dvd players come with this, if your tv doesnt have this input you can simply get a adapter which plugs into a scart plug on the back of your telly.

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