Help connecting 3 pin RCA component coaxial to tv?

Question

hey all... i'm right in the middle of connecting a 3 pin rca (blue green red) cable from my dvd to my tv... I'm using an older type (red,white yellow) but i'm unsure of the order they go ie/ do they just go red to red or is there another combo as it is not working... an anyone help?

Answer 1

you apparently are trying to use a cable designed for audio-right/audio-left/composite video to connect the three component video signals to the TV.  This is not recommended because the audio cables are usually thinner and thus have more capacitance, so bandwidth will suffer.  Better to go out and buy a new cable designed to carry the wide band component video signals.

(If you want to try to use the old cable anyway, then adopt a consistent color translation to help guide you such as:

  red ends -> red component,  yellow ends -> green component, and white (or black) ends -> blue component.

Also make sure that you do not confuse the audio inputs (which are red and white) with the component video inputs (which are red, green, & blue).  They are usually arranged in clusters.

Answer 2

your currently using a differnt type of connection on each end. Your dvd players red green and blue out put is all video connections and where your connecting it to on your tv is video and audio (yellow is video red and white are audio) you cannot hook it up like this. All you have to do is match the colors on both  ends yellow to yellow red to red and white to white. Or if your tv has red green and blue connections( component video) hook it up red to red green to green blue to blue keep in mind that you will still have to run a cable for audio (red and white ends)  if you do it this way

Answer 3

red/white   or red/black  yellow is vidio