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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Palette.
Speaker 1: I'm an editor here at how stuff works dot com.
Speaker 1: Sitting across from me again as usual, is senior writer
Speaker 1: Jonathan Strickland. Hey there, and so today we want to
Speaker 1: talk about those entanglements behind your television set. Yes, and
Speaker 1: this actually comes courtesy of one of our listeners. I'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and read the a listener many. This mail
Speaker 1: comes from Brian from Iowa. What's up, Tech Stuff? Guys?
Speaker 1: You rule? I have a quick question. Can you do
Speaker 1: a podcast explaining the differences between all the high definition
Speaker 1: hook ups for TV? For example, why is it that
Speaker 1: the video component cord now has three cables red, blue,
Speaker 1: and green instead of the old one yellow one? And
Speaker 1: move on from there to the HDM my stuff. I
Speaker 1: know you could do this an email, but I feel
Speaker 1: like a lot of people are curious on this topic.
Speaker 1: So if it's no bother, can it be a podcast? Thanks? Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: it's a huge bother, but we're gonna do it anyway,
Speaker 1: You're actually it's not a bother at all. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just giving you the business. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the different kinds of cables you used to
Speaker 1: send video feeds and audio feeds as well to and
Speaker 1: from your television. Alright, then, so where to start. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the old ones, like well, I mean we
Speaker 1: CoA coaxial. Let's go with co axial. So coaxial cable.
Speaker 1: This is the stuff that comes from cable boxes, satellite boxes,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. And it carries a signal that
Speaker 1: has both video and audio in it. Yeah, it's uh,
Speaker 1: it actually can carry quite a bit of information, which
Speaker 1: is why it's used in those connections. You know, it
Speaker 1: can work on your cable modem and you know that's
Speaker 1: a pretty high speed connection. Alternatives, of course, would be
Speaker 1: fiber optic, but that's not something that you uh uh
Speaker 1: you would plug into your TV. Actually, a co actually
Speaker 1: has quite a quite a history. It was invented in
Speaker 1: so it's been around quite a while, right, and it
Speaker 1: it carries a modulated signal that means that you have
Speaker 1: to have some sort of tuner in order to to
Speaker 1: uh tune into the signal that it that it's sending. Now,
Speaker 1: that tuner might be a cable box or a satellite box,
Speaker 1: or it might be a tuner that's actually in your
Speaker 1: television set. Um. It all depends on the TV. Actually,
Speaker 1: most new TVs probably have a basic tuner in there,
Speaker 1: so you can plug the cable directly from the wall
Speaker 1: into your television if you so wished. Um. Some cable
Speaker 1: providers do not like that so much, so you pretty
Speaker 1: much have to get a cable box for that. But
Speaker 1: that's your basic video feed and audio feed into a
Speaker 1: TV set. Um. And it's an antenna, I guess, because
Speaker 1: you could get over the air broadcast antenna right right. Well,
Speaker 1: basically it's his copper wire and and his sheathings. So
Speaker 1: you know, that's it. It's it's not that fancy, but
Speaker 1: it it works. Yeah yeah, Now, I mean that's not
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily an ideal situation that you know, you're
Speaker 1: not necessarily going to get the best quality stuff that way.
Speaker 1: But let's let's let's talk about I wanted to go
Speaker 1: straight to composite video really okay, yeah, that's that red,
Speaker 1: white and yellow set of cables, and of course only
Speaker 1: one of those is video. That's red and white are
Speaker 1: the left and right audio channel. That's correct, and as
Speaker 1: Brian pointed out, the yellow is video. Now he had said,
Speaker 1: why our component cables come in why do they come
Speaker 1: in threes instead of just ones like they used to
Speaker 1: well number and they never they never came in one
Speaker 1: chord because it's composite video, not component video. They are
Speaker 1: two different things. Now. Composite video carries the entire video
Speaker 1: signal in one stream. YEP, it's compressed to get it
Speaker 1: in there. And as a matter of fact, it's really
Speaker 1: uh good for NTSC Standard definition video. Yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: talking about stuff that was used back in the old
Speaker 1: days when you'd have these things called v c rs.
Speaker 1: No no, not here either, but no, no, this is
Speaker 1: pretty much the stuff you would see in the old
Speaker 1: and an older home theater equipment. So VCRs, uh you know,
Speaker 1: super vhs even things like that. You would hook this
Speaker 1: up with one of these yellow chords from the box
Speaker 1: to your television set and that would give you the video.
Speaker 1: And and not just you know, home theater, but also
Speaker 1: video game consoles. A lot of video game consoles use
Speaker 1: this as well. So for example, um Xbox, my old
Speaker 1: Xbox came with the composite video cord. You would have
Speaker 1: to go out and buy a special HD chord if
Speaker 1: you wanted to get something in higher quality. And that's
Speaker 1: the thing the composite video, because it is a compressed signal.
Speaker 1: You're not going to get HD quality video out of
Speaker 1: that signal. So even if you have let's say you
Speaker 1: bought a DVD player, I bought a DVD player, and
Speaker 1: let's say that you bought an h D t V.
Speaker 1: I bought an HDTV, And let's say that you're using
Speaker 1: a composite video to hook the DVD player to your HDTV. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that I did that, Okay, So this is where I
Speaker 1: would say, you foolish consumer. You have bought all these
Speaker 1: high quality products and you're using a subpar cable to
Speaker 1: hook the two up. Now you may remember we did
Speaker 1: a podcast ages ago about does cable quality matter? And
Speaker 1: we kind of came to the conclusion that ultimately it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. Well, that really only counts for within
Speaker 1: a specific kind of cable, right, Different kinds of cables
Speaker 1: matter a lot, and this is one of them. So
Speaker 1: if you were to hook up your DVD player to
Speaker 1: your h D t V, with a with a posit
Speaker 1: video chord, you would only get standard video out. You
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to view HD content at all because
Speaker 1: the cable itself is incapable of carrying that information. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: so don't do it. Yeah you know. Uh, since I
Speaker 1: have some older equipment and I'm saving up to actually
Speaker 1: for real by an HDTV, UM, I still have a
Speaker 1: jumble of composite chords behind my TV. In fact, I'm
Speaker 1: using an ABC box to manage because I only have
Speaker 1: a couple uh you know, inputs for it. Is it
Speaker 1: as easy as one, two three? Um? Not quite, however, Um,
Speaker 1: I do have one S video input on the back
Speaker 1: of my television, so well, S video is better than
Speaker 1: composit video. It's still not HD. No, it doesn't carry
Speaker 1: an HD signal. Now S video. It separates the signal
Speaker 1: into two signals. The video signal, I should say, Uh,
Speaker 1: you have your luminants signal, which is the level of
Speaker 1: white in whatever the images at the time, and the
Speaker 1: chrominance signal, which is the color information. So brightness and
Speaker 1: color essentially is what we're talking about. It get split
Speaker 1: up into these two different signals. It's sent to your TV.
Speaker 1: It gives you a better quality image than you would
Speaker 1: have with a composite video, but again it's still not
Speaker 1: high definition. Now this is kind of confusing for people
Speaker 1: who bought h D t V several years ago because
Speaker 1: s video that was one of the new things on
Speaker 1: these TVs that people were unfamiliar with, and it was
Speaker 1: on the backs of DVD players and they just thought, oh, well,
Speaker 1: this is what h D is not quite it's not
Speaker 1: going to give you the quality that your h D
Speaker 1: t V is capable of showing. Um, you know, not
Speaker 1: the full ten a DP experience. I guess if you're
Speaker 1: on one of the smaller TVs. Uh yeah, D experience.
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Speaker 1: just gonna throw that in there. I think that's number four.
Speaker 1: If you love swers are keeping track, just let us
Speaker 1: know how many patents we have pending, you know, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna put that up out of sequence, so people
Speaker 1: are gonna wonder why we had four patents pending before
Speaker 1: we had three. What we need is we need someone
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Speaker 1: of all of our episodes and all of the patents
Speaker 1: we have pending. That would be nice because then we
Speaker 1: know what was that we've actually talked about. I'm sure
Speaker 1: all of you out there have plenty of spare times
Speaker 1: time on your hands. Uh, so go for it. So
Speaker 1: getting back to the cables and stdo Actually, the fact
Speaker 1: that you mentioned the chrominence and luminance, I had the
Speaker 1: feeling that's going to come up again very shortly. It
Speaker 1: probably will, so, Uh. The nice thing about this the
Speaker 1: S video cable, is that it's a it's a single cable,
Speaker 1: that's true, except it doesn't have sound. You still have
Speaker 1: to use the red and white cables for sure. But
Speaker 1: the nice thing about the nice thing about for our video, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just one cable as opposed to, uh to the
Speaker 1: the component cables, which we'll get to an minute. But
Speaker 1: because it's just the one cable, that means less clutter
Speaker 1: behind your entertainment system. UM. Now, I don't know about you.
Speaker 1: My entertainment system is cluttered like crazy because I've got
Speaker 1: you know, five or six video game consoles, hooful to it.
Speaker 1: I've got a DVD player, UM, I've got my my
Speaker 1: surround sound system. Um, there are a lot of components
Speaker 1: to my entertainment system. So I've got a lot of cables.
Speaker 1: So whenever I have an option to go with a
Speaker 1: single cable, I think about that quite a bit before
Speaker 1: going and moving forward and purchasing cables. Now. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 1: didn't get in on the best option available right now
Speaker 1: because I purchased a television before they it became the standard.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to that as well. Alright then, so
Speaker 1: I guess we can move on to the Component Video cables.
Speaker 1: And these are the cables that Brian was mentioning before
Speaker 1: right now that these come in red, green, and blue,
Speaker 1: I believe if I'm not miss again, yes, red, green,
Speaker 1: and blue, and you would you would might first think
Speaker 1: that these cables split the video into those three colors,
Speaker 1: and that each cable, you know, carries that color to
Speaker 1: the your TV and then it magically combines and then
Speaker 1: you've got a HD screen because Component Video is one
Speaker 1: of the video cables that can transmit HD quality images. Well,
Speaker 1: it's only partially magic, right, And it's also not not
Speaker 1: true that it's each color. That's not exactly what's happening, um,
Speaker 1: because one of them, it's actually split into chrominance and
Speaker 1: luminance again, it's just that there's one luminance and two chrominans.
Speaker 1: That is correct. Wow, you actually researched this one. I'm
Speaker 1: not just making stuff. Yeah. The one wire carries the
Speaker 1: brightness signals, that's the luminance, and the chrominans. You've got
Speaker 1: one that that carries a signal that has the difference
Speaker 1: between blue and the luminance, and then the other one
Speaker 1: splits it between the difference in red and the Lumit that. Wow,
Speaker 1: look at you. You know you and have an HDTV
Speaker 1: and you know this stuff. Um. So there are a
Speaker 1: lot of things on the market now that run that
Speaker 1: use this these cables, including um like the Xbox. Again,
Speaker 1: I have an old Xbox. I don't have the Xbox
Speaker 1: three sixty, but I've got an old one and um
Speaker 1: And one of the cables you could buy was a
Speaker 1: component video cable source and again does not carry audio.
Speaker 1: So you need a different audio cable to be able
Speaker 1: to get sound out of your whatever system it is,
Speaker 1: whether it's a DVD player, video game console, whatever. Otherwise
Speaker 1: you're gonna have really cool video but no sounds. So
Speaker 1: unless you really like silent movies that look really really crisp,
Speaker 1: you're gonna need another set of cables. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it would be really nice if we had I don't know,
Speaker 1: one cable that would carry all this stuff, one cable
Speaker 1: to rule them all, cable to bind them, so to speak.
Speaker 1: Depends on how long the cable is. But okay, right,
Speaker 1: so U h d M I Okay, that'll work. That's
Speaker 1: your high Definition Multimedia interface cable. And this has become
Speaker 1: more or less the standard for HD cables with televisions
Speaker 1: and components moving forward. And uh, it's a darn good
Speaker 1: one because it does carry HDI uncompressed video. It can
Speaker 1: carry uncompressed video and audio, so now you can get
Speaker 1: high quality audio and video using one cable. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's really impressive stuff. Now. As I was mentioning earlier,
Speaker 1: the reason why I used the component video cables is
Speaker 1: because my television does not have an h d M
Speaker 1: I uh input port, so I can't use it. And
Speaker 1: even if I could, I don't think that my DVD
Speaker 1: player has one either, so I wouldn't have anything to
Speaker 1: plug it to. UM and uh, plus my DVD player
Speaker 1: broke ages ago, so I'm I'm in desperate straits. I
Speaker 1: watch all my DVDs. I'm Mac now, um, and I
Speaker 1: use my PlayStation two to watch DVDs. So yeah, here
Speaker 1: we aren't talking about high quality cables and we're like,
Speaker 1: all my equipment broke. I Actually I do have it
Speaker 1: on my list of things to do buy new stuff,
Speaker 1: but that's gonna have to wait for a little while anyway.
Speaker 1: H d M I. So there's some great things about
Speaker 1: h d M I. For one thing, you've got that
Speaker 1: one single cable that carries everything. Um, that's uh that
Speaker 1: and it's also always being updated with new features. So
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those standards that's constantly evolving. UM,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be something that that is out
Speaker 1: of date in three or four months, because fortunately they
Speaker 1: work on they being the organizations behind the HDMI standard,
Speaker 1: work on making sure that it continues to meet the
Speaker 1: needs of consumers. So that's a good thing about h
Speaker 1: d M I as well as opposed to some of
Speaker 1: the older methods which were invented, uh serve their purpose
Speaker 1: and now I mean they still work, they just don't
Speaker 1: work any better than they did way back when. Uh,
Speaker 1: and uh there's some other things that are maybe not
Speaker 1: quite as good. There's no locking mechanism on an HD
Speaker 1: in my cable. So anybody could just rip rip it
Speaker 1: right off the back of your TV and take off. Well,
Speaker 1: that could happen, or you could, you know, jostle it
Speaker 1: while you're moving your components around falls out. And if
Speaker 1: you're like me and you have a television system where
Speaker 1: if something falls, it means you have to pull the
Speaker 1: damn TV all the way back out from the wall. Again.
Speaker 1: I've got a fifty one inch television and it's the
Speaker 1: kind on wheels. It's not a flat panel We're not,
Speaker 1: we're talking, you know, it's off flat panel display. So, uh,
Speaker 1: if something falls, then I have to move the whole
Speaker 1: TV out. And of course, since I've got so many
Speaker 1: cables connected to the thing from all the different video
Speaker 1: game systems, and some of them are rather taught, it
Speaker 1: means I have to start disconnecting stuff from other things
Speaker 1: in order to get this one cable that's fallen out. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: unless you're moving your your system around a lot, it's
Speaker 1: probably not gonna happen. Um probably being the operative word here.
Speaker 1: Another thing that it has is um, well, it has
Speaker 1: HDCP copy protection. Yes, and you're a fan of the
Speaker 1: copy protection, as I remember Oh, yeah, I love copy protection.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you. You You know, he goes on and
Speaker 1: on about that. Anybody who will listen, you know, because
Speaker 1: you know, I just love copy protection. I think it's
Speaker 1: the best thing ever to prevent made from from exercising
Speaker 1: fair use of your stuff, the stuff that I own.
Speaker 1: I you know what, I think it's the best thing
Speaker 1: in the world. If I purchased something and I have
Speaker 1: absolutely no way of creating a backup copy for my
Speaker 1: own personal use, so that Heaven forbid something happens to
Speaker 1: the original, I don't have to go out and purchase
Speaker 1: the thing that I've already bought. Once again, is that
Speaker 1: a soapbox on the floor. I'm sorry, I like it.
Speaker 1: I'm just asking so. So, Yeah, the copy protection is
Speaker 1: actually built into the cable. Yeah, it's um that's kind
Speaker 1: of irritating. And then there's some incompeted incompetibility issues that
Speaker 1: we're in some of the early HD my cables, UM,
Speaker 1: where you couldn't get the h D content from one
Speaker 1: source to your TV. Most of those have been worked
Speaker 1: out in in subsequent cables, but if you bought them
Speaker 1: early on, you might have experienced some problems. Now that's
Speaker 1: not the only kind of cables that you can hook
Speaker 1: up to your TV. Uh And so we can talk
Speaker 1: about a few others. There's the Digital Visual Interface d I. Yes,
Speaker 1: d v I. It's actually very similar to h d
Speaker 1: M I, is it not. It's it's pretty similar, although
Speaker 1: it has one advantage. Let me guess, no copy protection. Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna talk more about Well some of them
Speaker 1: don't support hd CP, so, but it does have copy protection,
Speaker 1: so that's not it. No, it has as a little
Speaker 1: screws that you can screw in. Okay, you were so
Speaker 1: excited about it. I figured it was the copy prodection.
Speaker 1: D I does have copy protections, Yes it does. And
Speaker 1: if um, yeah, if you have a a monitor or
Speaker 1: a television that doesn't support h d C p um,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be compatible with whatever the source
Speaker 1: is for your video, so then you won't be able
Speaker 1: to display it. And uh So this is one of
Speaker 1: those things where you have to make sure that your
Speaker 1: devices are compatible with one another before you use it.
Speaker 1: It looks like a little computer port, the kind that
Speaker 1: you would have on the back of any you know,
Speaker 1: monitor or on a computer card and you're on your
Speaker 1: desktop PC that kind of thing. Uh, and like I said,
Speaker 1: you can actually secure that one with little screws so
Speaker 1: it doesn't pop off like the h d M I could.
Speaker 1: So there's that. Then there's a well, I mean, if
Speaker 1: you want to take a step back, there's the v
Speaker 1: g A uh connectors as well, which also looks like again,
Speaker 1: this is something that you would see in computer monitors usually,
Speaker 1: but some televisions have them, and it would allow you
Speaker 1: to to maybe hook up your computer to your your
Speaker 1: television so that you can use your TV as a
Speaker 1: giant computer monitor. So uh, some old HDTVs have them,
Speaker 1: some old set top boxes have them. Um, it does
Speaker 1: have the little thumb screws again, so you can secure
Speaker 1: your cable to your TV. It's a not really common so,
Speaker 1: I mean hardly anyone talks about it. Really. The most
Speaker 1: common ones you're gonna see are the composite component, S
Speaker 1: video and h d M. I Actually, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: surprised if S video started to kind of quietly go away.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean it's you know, composite has been
Speaker 1: around and it's it's still leading a hearty, robust life.
Speaker 1: Well and if you have any legacy UH hardware, like
Speaker 1: any VHS type stuff for old laser disc players or
Speaker 1: anything like that. Yeah, if you have anything like that,
Speaker 1: you need that composite video input or else you know,
Speaker 1: your your your That's when your equipment really becomes obsolete
Speaker 1: because you no longer have anything that can display the video.
Speaker 1: We'll put it this way. I've got to see stuff
Speaker 1: that's already got um some you know, tons and tons
Speaker 1: of composite cables and then one s video input on
Speaker 1: my older TV. When I do upgrade to h D,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want h D M I. Right. Well, I
Speaker 1: gotta say that one thing about component video that's kind
Speaker 1: of nice is that it does not have copy protection. Ah,
Speaker 1: so you might want to go with that because you
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about, you know, no longer being
Speaker 1: able to make copies. So let's talk about audio for
Speaker 1: a second. Okay, let's talk about audio for a second.
Speaker 1: So you really have a couple of different options. I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got the HDM I, which carries audio on its own,
Speaker 1: but then you also have the the the red and
Speaker 1: white cables which, as you pointed out, carry the right
Speaker 1: and left speakers audio signals. But you also have one
Speaker 1: other option digital digital optical. Yeah, the optical audio I'll
Speaker 1: put this is a users fiber optics and it transmits
Speaker 1: audio through light. Oh that sounds like fun? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that the best way to listen to I don't know,
Speaker 1: l O Electrical Orchestra. Yes, it's the only way to
Speaker 1: listen to the l that's any way I listened to
Speaker 1: l O. Fiber optic does have an enormous bandwidth, just
Speaker 1: a very fragile cable right and it it's um, it
Speaker 1: provides really good sound. It's not necessarily the full stereo
Speaker 1: sound that you would expect from a real like big
Speaker 1: home theater system for those you usually have. You will
Speaker 1: actually have a a setup where, um, you'll have feeds
Speaker 1: going to very specific speakers, so a front right, front, left, center, back, left, back, right,
Speaker 1: and then you know your left sub woffer is what
Speaker 1: I was going to say. But all right, so um yeah,
Speaker 1: so but the the optical cable, it provides pretty good sound.
Speaker 1: I mean really good sound. Really. That's and that's what
Speaker 1: I have with my Xbox. You know my Xbox with
Speaker 1: the component video cord. I have an opt cold uh
Speaker 1: audio cord which connects from the Xbox directly to my
Speaker 1: sound system bypasses the television completely. Um, So those are
Speaker 1: the other kind of audio cables you might have. UM,
Speaker 1: let's say, I think we pretty much covered all the
Speaker 1: basic cables on a television. As we said, the ones
Speaker 1: you're more likely to see our your your composite component
Speaker 1: S video and h D M I UM component might
Speaker 1: actually go away as well, not because it's a an
Speaker 1: inferior product, but because it doesn't support copy protection. So
Speaker 1: you're you were starting to see movie studios and UH
Speaker 1: and television studios really put pressure on manufacturers to stop
Speaker 1: supporting component video cables because they don't want their their
Speaker 1: material to get copied like crazy. So that's unfortunate because
Speaker 1: it does provide a very good picture. Well you know,
Speaker 1: once uh, once DRM gets involved, people are very very
Speaker 1: serious about protecting their intellectual property from perceived threats. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's not go there. That's just gonna make me angry
Speaker 1: all over again. Okay, how about we, Uh, do you
Speaker 1: have anything else to say about cables? All right, we're
Speaker 1: all tied up on the cables thing, so Brian, I
Speaker 1: hope that answers your question. Matt, Um, you can write
Speaker 1: to us later and tell us all the things we
Speaker 1: got wrong, or you can talk to us as soon
Speaker 1: as we stop recording. I mean he is capable of speaking, folks.
Speaker 1: He's not a mime or a mute. But this brings
Speaker 1: us to our second about of a listener mail. Thank
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Speaker 1: just listening to your augmented reality podcast and the listener mail,
Speaker 1: and you guys were talking about first person shooters. Personally,
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