The Plasma TV Blog

The HDMI is a connector that transmits digital TV audio-visual signals from DVD players, set-top boxes, and just about any other source to televisions, projectors, and similar video displays. It carries all standard, enhanced, and High Definition formats, and does it in a single cable, with a smaller and more user friendly plug in. It […]

Digital Visual Interface is the name give to a connecting device that is used with digital display devices to maximize the visual quality. It uses binary data to transmit the required brightness level of each individual pixel in the display. The device was developed by a group of researchers primarily for the purpose of improving […]

The two long time standards of the electronic industry are the RBG/VGA connectors. RGB gets its name from the three primary colors, red, green, and blue. These colors are combined to produce the myriad of colors available. An example is 24 bit color, where each of the three has eight variants that can be combined […]

Component video is a type of analog video that is transmitted in two or more signals. It differs from Composite video which combines the various elements into a single signal. All types of analog video signals, which are also called components, need to carry the information needed to reproduce the proper color of the image. […]

S-Video is an abbreviation for Separate Video. It is also sometimes known as Y/C, and also, not quite accurately as S-VHS. It is an analog video signal that carries data as two separate signals, one for brightness and the other for color. It differs from Composite Video which combines both into one signal. S-Video is […]

The basic underlying problem that had to be overcome in order to make the television in your home a reality was how to send the signal from the studio to a receiver in your home, and how to connect that receiver to your display monitor. The first solution to this problem was a format known […]