Does the component cable have to be in the white and red HD inpts, or in the regular blue, red, and green inpt

Question

for an xbox 360, when i want to hook it up through a surround sound reciever, after i have the optical cable and the component cables hooked up into the reciever, in the tv, which inputs do i put the component cable in, from the reciever, if i want it to be in HD? Doesn't it have to be the HD inputs? or can i put it it any of the video inputs for it to be in HD?

Answer 1

It would have to be the three red, blue, and green input for the HD. The normal red/white/yellow inputs are non HD. Red and white would be your left and right channel audio. Yellow would be your lone video. In the HD format, you have three colors, corresponding to the colors your TV uses to make a display, being red, blue, and green. (also known as a RGB connection).

Answer 2

Component video (your red green and blue connections) are Y pB pR or less likely Y cB cR but they are NOT RGB. RGB would be red signal, green signal and blue signal with both horizontal and vertical sinc riding along with green. Component video is luminance+both sincs on the green connection and the other two are red and blue. There is no green in a component video connection. Green is figured out inside the TV.

Not that any of this matters directly to your question, but it corrects an error in a previous answer.

Answer 3

Component Video:

Component Cables are used to send video to a display using three RCA cables. It use a green red and blue cable.

The Green cable carries Sinc, and Luminance. It does not carry a Green video signal, (just pluging the green cable in and you only get a Black and White picture, Go ahead and try it).

The Red cable does carry the Red signal and Blue carries Blue.

You need to conect them to your display Green to Green, Red to Red, and Blue to Blue.

Component Video can carrie many forms of video.

480i

480P

720P

1080I

And YES 1080P!

Finding a device to play 1080P is the trick. Not many devices let you send 1080P using Component. To bad for all the older HDTV out there.

Component is different than RGB. RGB and RGBHV are older form that used four or five cables to send video to a display.

Black for H-Sinc.

White for V-Sinc.

Green for Green

Red for Red

and Blue for Blue

Some of the newer display system would allow you to use one cable for both H-Sink and V-Sinc. Thats would be the case in a four cable system. I use these setup's back in the good old days (1999 and earlyer).

Answer 4

It's color coded for a reason....if the cable is blue....obviously don't put it in the yellow or green or red....you put it in the blue connector on the tv or receiver.

Blue goes in blue, red goes in red and green goes in green.