Which is better ,Component(Red Green Blue) or (Pr,Pc,Y) cables for connecting a DVD to an LCD TV?

Question

I have a Sony LCD TV and DVD with both i/p's and O/p's at both ends.I know HDMI is best but my DVD has no HD O/p.

Answer 1

RGB and Y,Pr,Pb are both component video. Both can give equivalent quality. Neither is inherently better. Y,Pr,Pb is derived from RGB merely by adding and subtracting signals. Essentially Y = R+B+G, Pr = R-Y, Pb = B-Y. (I left out some coefficients for simplicity of explanation.) The tv set will take The Y,Pr,Pb signals and convert them to RGB internally merely by doing the proper summing. But all of the signals have the same information.

RGB is usually outputted on a 15-pin rectangular VGA-type connector, while the Y,Pr,Pb are on three separate cables. I have not yet seen a DVD player with RGB output, so I suspect the only choice you have is Y,Pr,Pb.

To add to the confusion, the cables for Y,Pr,Pb are colored Green Red and Blue, respectively, even thought they don't carry green red and blue signals as such

Answer 2

Component Video Cables are also known as Y-Pb-Pr(Red,Green,Blue). YPbPr is converted from the RGB video analog signal, which is split into three components, Y, Pr and Pb.
Y carries luminance information.Pb carries the difference between blue and luminance.Pr carries the difference between red and luminance.
You have a high resolution TV.It is time to change your DVD player with one having HDMI output for full bandwidth digital signal

Answer 3

There is no difference in the cables for connecting a PR, Pc, Y format component video vs. the other formats. Any video cable will work just fine. If you have 3 "yellow" composite cables then you can use that also.

Just connect your DVD player to your receiver using any of these options and you can be guaranteed the best connection method from your DVD player.

Answer 4

component comes in different formats.

here's from crappy to best:

YUV 2 signal luminance and chrominance PAL

YIQ also luma chroma NTSC

YCbCr digital luminance blue and red

YPbPr analog luminance blue and red

big difference from YUV and YIQ to YPbPr and YCbCr

and from YPbPr to YCbCr
people think the digital component is better but...
YCbCr is not an absolute color space. It is a way of encoding RGB information, and the actual color displayed depends on the actual RGB colorants, and information may loose quality on conversion

so YPbPr will be the best

Answer 5

Its the DVD the quality of reproduction of some DVDs is very poor I found this out by testing other players seems like the sony ps3 is the only one on the market that will play almost anything. By the way if you are using HDMI that is the only way to go.

Answer 6

For video, the best quality for highest to lowest is componet, s-video, and RFU. I always thought that s-video was better till i read otherwise in my A+ certified book. Supposedly componet is always the best way to go, and it works best going directly to tv, without also going through vcrs and recievers.

Answer 7

Component RGB is best

Answer 8

Pr,Pc,Y is much better

Answer 9

Component RGB is good!!!!!!!