HDTV Tutorial
Connecting Thru Component Video (Cont'd)
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If you are sure that your video card has component video output, just connect it to your HDTV panel, following these directions:
- Green connector: green input or input labeled as Y;
- Blue connector: blue input or input labeled as Pb or Cb or B-Y;
- Red connector: red input or input labeled as Pr or Cr or R-Y.
You will need a component video cable. This cable has three plugs, one green, one red and one blue.
Figure 9: Component video cable.
Figure 10: HDTV panel component video connectors.
Figure 11: Component video cable correctly installed on the HDTV panel.
Figure 12: Component video cable correctly installed on the video card adapter.
Figure 13: Component video cable correctly installed on the PC.
If your video card doesn’t have component video output and your HDTV panel doesn’t have DVI nor VGA inputs, then the only way to connect your HDTV set to your PC is through Separated Video (S-Video) connection, which has a low image quality – you won’t get a very sharp image on the screen. Its connection is rather simple, just plug one end of your Super Video cable to the HDTV S-Video input and the other end to your video card S-Video output. You may need to activate your video card S-Video output, which is done by going to your PC video configuration screen. Because of its low image quality we do not recommend this kind of connection.
After connecting your HDTV panel to your PC you may need to change its video configuration. Let’s talk about it.