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Component Video
Component Video is the highest quality analog video connection available between a DVD player and television. A DVD's picture information is stored as several separate picture elements: Luminance (or brightness), and Red and Blue picture information (Y R-Y B-Y). Transmitting these picture elements separately eliminates artifacts that might occur were they stored together as a composite signal. Composite video signals must be separated into their separate picture components by the television, with variable and unpredictable results. Component video inputs/outputs use three conventional RCA/coaxial cables, each responsible for one of the three picture elements. If your television or DVD player does not include component video inputs or outputs, S-Video cabling should be used instead, with composite RCA/RF as a last resort.
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