Questionhi, my daughter wants to hook up a different dvd player to her ent. system, however the existing cable is the red,blue, grn componet type. The dvd player only has red,yellow, white composite jacks. Is there an adapter she could use on the componet cable? can she just plug in 2 of the 3 plugs?
AnswerDear ej,
Component video connections are not compatible with composite connections. Component video uses a different input stream for discreet portions of the color spectrum. Composite, the yellow lead (only--the red and white are right and left channel audio respectively) carries the entire video signal. So you cannot simply use one or two of the component connections and hope to get a reasonable picture. Further, since two of the leads are audio, you'd get no picture out of them even if you connected them.
However, the component cable is connected on the other end to something else, right? Like a TV or A/V receiver. Virtually all TVs and A/V receivers can accommodate both types of connections. All you need to do is pull the component video cable from whatever its connected to (TV or A/V receiver) and substitute the composite cable in the appropriate input jacks. Don't worry. They'll be plainly labeled: Composite, Component, S-video.
BTW, composite is the weakest of the video connection options. If the DVD player has an S-video connection, I'd recommend highly that you use it instead of composite video, especially since you're doing away with the best video connection, component.
Good luck. And thanks for using allexperts.com!
Kindest regards,
Kevin
