Is a component cabel as good as an HDMI or DVI?

Question

I have a dvd player with only a component connection. Is the picture as good as a HDMI or DVI? what about S-Video?? is the component better than an S-Video?

Answer 1

Component is really good ... but I really liked the DVI to HDMI connection between my cable DVR and my plasma TV better for picture quality.

Component is really superior to s-video. I have weird color space problems with s-video, especially when stretching the video to fill the screen that don't happen when stretching a component source. It could be because the original source for the video is NTSC versus DVD. But still, it's better.

HDMI 1.2 does not really offer picture quality advantages over DVI. However, the HDMI 1.3 standard is supposed to offer the capability of billions of colors rather than millions of colors with HDMI 1.2. It's also supposed to support uncompressed audio rather than compressed audio. You'll need a compatible source (Blu-ray, HD-DVD, video game console) and a compatible TV to see the full benefits otherwise the fallback will be HDMI 1.2.

Answer 2

HDMI and DVI as well as being digital can also handle high definition (which isn't an issue with DVD players though since they can't output high definition).

Picture quality with DVI and HDMI are not going to be different provided there isn't anything wrong so HDMI really only has the audio as an advantage over DVI (millions of colours is all you need anyway and there aren't any DVDs or HDTV programmes or Blue Laser disks or whatever that actually have billions of colours stored on them).

Component for DVD watching should be just fine provided there is nothing seriously wrong with your TV or DVD player. Analog does tend to be worse than digital but if everything is good quality you probably aren't going to notice a difference with DVI or HDMI (so while Component isn't as good as DVI or HDMI it's still good enough for pretty much any use of a DVD player).

S-Video is better than composite but worse than Component.

Answer 3

HDMI and DVI cables are better than component cables. HDMI provides digital video and audio. DVI provides a digital video, but no sound. Component cables provide analog video and audio.

Answer 4

order from good to best:
composite (yellow)
s-video(circle w/pins)
component (1 red, 1 blue, 1 green)
dvi (wide, thin, digital)
hdmi (best u can do right now, also handles audio-small like usb)

component is pretty decent, alot better then composite or s-video (usually). if u want true hi-def DIGITAL then u need dvi or hdmi if you can. component is cool, but still analog technically...

Answer 5

HDMI and DVI are going to be better just because they are digital. But unless you are using an HDTV you probably won't notice a difference.